Chapter 998 Beira City
Beira City.
In the national positioning of East Africa, the city of Beira is quite special. It is one of the central cities in the southeastern coastal region, connecting two important ports of Dar es Salaam in the north and Maputo in the south.
In the past ten years, the city of Beira has been the fastest growing city in East Africa. Today, the total population of Beira has exceeded 300,000. As a region such as Bohemian Industrial Products and Lorraine Industrial Zone (Zimbabwe and Botswana) The fastest access to the sea in the eastern region, Beira is almost responsible for most of the goods trade in the central industry.
Kelta, the new mayor of Beira, said: "At present, the city's economic level is constantly rising, and it has become the country's number one export port for important materials such as sugar, tobacco, copper ore, and machinery in the central region. , among several coastal cities in the east, second only to Mombasa, Dar es Salaam and New Hamburg Port City, and during the First Five-Year Plan period, our city’s industry and economy will definitely surpass New Hamburg Port City and become The third city in eastern East Africa”
Relying on the Central Industrial Zone, Beira City is likely to become or surpass a large city like Mombasa or Dar es Salaam in the future, because the industrial level of the Central Industrial Zone currently ranks first in East Africa.
Neither Dar es Salaam nor Maputo in the south can form effective competitiveness against the Port of Beira. Even because of the rise of the Port of Beira, it belonged to Zambia and Some goods in southern Congo prefer to be exported from the Port of Beira, so the rise of Beira City poses the greatest threat to Dar es Salaam.
In the past life, there were a large number of countries in East Africa. Due to various reasons, these countries could not reach an agreement on transportation construction. They generally built transportation networks with their own capitals as the core. This also made transportation cooperation between African countries very weak and easy. Affected by factors such as politics and war.
The establishment of East Africa has undoubtedly eliminated this sense of regional division, which is also an important factor in Bella's rapid rise.
Kelta said: “Thanks to the rapid development of the Port of Beira in the 1990s, Beira is now one of the important industrial cities in the country, which is important for our city and other countries in the First Five-Year Plan. Urban competition is beneficial ”
"Before 1903, our goal was to at least surpass the New Hamburg Port City and solidify its status as the third city on the eastern coast. On this basis, our city's population would exceed at least 400,000 and the industrial scale would increase by at least 15%."
“With the help of the general background of the first five-year plan, we will implement our city’s petroleum , with the further development of the chemical industry, it has become a supply center for inland petroleum and chemical raw materials. ”
With the rise of the petroleum and chemical industry in East Africa, most coastal cities in East Africa have gained new opportunities for development. The central industrial zone does not produce oil, so oil can only be imported or from northern East Africa.
Beira is the port for importing oil in the central industrial zone. The oil resources from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Romania and Russia will first arrive at the Port of Beira and then be transported inland by rail.
So relying on this advantage, during the First Five-Year Plan period, the East African central government is preparing to deploy a larger-scale petroleum industry in the Port of Beira, mainly in the two aspects of refining and storage and transportation, including fuel and lubricants. , petroleum wax, petroleum asphalt, petroleum coke and other petroleum products, and also provide corresponding production raw materials for the petrochemical industry.
The establishment of the petroleum industry in Beira City is inseparable from the Central Industrial Zone. Without the huge energy demand of the Central Industrial Zone, there would be no need to go to great lengths to deploy related industries in Beira.
This is easy to understand. Without industry, the demand for energy will naturally be very small. In the previous life, the Far East Empire went from an oil exporting country to the largest oil importing country due to industrial development.
Today, in the energy field, coal's dominance is still stable, but East Africa has begun large-scale development of energy such as oil and natural gas, and has surpassed the United States in this field, ranking first in the world. Against this background, important coastal cities such as Beira are more or less vigorously exploring the potential of the oil industry and injecting new blood into the East African industry.
Of course, the three major oil producing areas in the world are the United States, Europe and East Africa. East Africa has reached the third position in the world in terms of production, but it still imports a large amount from abroad. Petroleum, this shows how much the East African government attaches importance to the petroleum industry.
Kelta: "The oil industry is expected to become an important industry in the 20th century like the electric power industry. At present, the electric power industry has exerted great power in various countries around the world, driving the development of a large number of related industries and becoming one of the important symbols of industrial development in various countries."
“With the development of the internal combustion engine and the development of the chemical industry, the prospects of the petroleum industry have become very clear. Petroleum has become the second largest energy source in East Africa after coal, so the development of the petroleum industry is the future. Our city must also grasp the key points in East Africa Opportunity to become an important center for national petroleum refining and by-product processing. "
Compared to East Africa, other countries in the world currently do not have a large demand for oil, so oil has become the second largest energy source in East Africa. This is not true in other countries, and may not even compare with the amount of natural gas used, because the history of large-scale application of natural gas is earlier than that of oil, and because a lot of natural gas comes from by-products of coal mining, so with the development of the early coal industry, the natural gas industry The formation time is also relatively early.
During the first industrial revolution in Britain, the natural gas industry was formed and became the main energy source for the European lighting industry.
Kelta: “In addition, during the First Five-Year Plan, in addition to building a petroleum refinery with the latest technology, our city also needs to innovate the city’s steel industry and conduct renovations at the Beira Steel Plant. Equipment innovation, the construction of Beira City Coal Washing Plant, Beira City Second Pharmaceutical Factory, Fifth Power Plant and other enterprises, while connecting with the aluminum industry in Hindai Town, developing aluminum product processing, etc. ”
In the 1990s, Beira's pharmaceutical industry was relatively developed through cooperation with German chemical and pharmaceutical companies. Therefore, on this basis, East Africa focused on strengthening the local pharmaceutical industry, but it was mainly export-oriented. .
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, many chemical and pharmaceutical companies were inseparable. The strongest country in this field was Germany.
Of course, of course, pharmaceutical companies in this era are relatively chaotic. Many drugs have not been effectively inspected and supervised, especially psychotropic drugs. There is a high probability that they are illegal ingredients in previous lives, just like people do not fully understand the dangers of radioactive substances. Likewise, most people in this era have incomplete understanding of these substances.
What really made Europe, and even the whole world, realize its harm was the final result of the massive use of the military during the two world wars.
So for the pharmaceutical companies in Beira, although the East African government strongly supports them, they are quite cautious in using them in the domestic medical system. However, this does not prevent the pharmaceutical industry from making huge profits. East African countries use them cautiously or simply ban them. , but there is no psychological burden on exporting, and because it is as addictive as tobacco, many pharmaceutical exports basically have no sales problems.
In addition to manufacturing, the aluminum product processing industry is also a key industry in Beira City during the First Five-Year Plan period. East Africa has deployed the electrolytic aluminum industry in Hindai Town at the mouth of the Zambezi River, and the construction of the fifth power plant in Beira City is an important reason. , is to provide power support for Hindai Town, and the two cities cooperate in development. If Tete City, which is the leading city, is added, it will be cooperation among the three places.
Hindai Town has a short history of development in this province, and the electrolytic aluminum industry has a huge demand for electricity, so the electricity gap is huge. In this case, it is very important to "borrow" electricity from the nearby cities of Beira and Tete. Importantly, Tete City is rich in coal resources, so the cost of power generation is low. As an important port city, Beira City facilitates the import of coal from India and southern East Africa. It also has a large population and a strong industrial base, so the power generation capacity is relatively rich. Therefore, the two cities The land can provide part of the power gap for Xindai Town.
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