Chapter 1072 Seven Urban Agglomerations
Steel production is an important factor used in East Africa to measure the level of national industrial development, so it is placed at the top of national industrial development meetings every time.
The potential of East Africa's steel industry is still huge, mainly because with the implementation of the two five-year plans, East Africa's domestic industrial level has improved, and the gap in the steel industry is also growing.
So during the Third Five-Year Plan period, continuing to significantly increase the steel production in East Africa is still an important issue for the East African government.
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With the end of the steel industry analysis, the East African government did not continue to summarize other industries, but first summarized the national regional economic and industrial development.
Sweite said: "Currently, our country has formed three major industrial clusters, namely the east, central and west. With these three major industrial clusters, our country's industry has developed rapidly and formed an industry that is not inferior to other countries. "
Among the three major industrial clusters in East Africa, even the weakest industrial cluster in the west has achieved considerable scale through two five-year plans, even among the major powers. A place with good industrial development.
In addition, the industrial development in southern East Africa is also good, but the southern industry is concentrated in the coastal cities of New Hamburg and Maputo, and the inland industry and urban development are relatively weak.
So the southern industrial cluster can only be counted as half. In this way, East Africa has actually formed three and a half major industrial cluster areas. With the equator as the boundary, the East African economy is obviously strong in the south and weak in the north.
"We currently divide the country into seven urban agglomerations based on actual conditions. These seven urban agglomerations are mainly based on the level of industrial development between regions and are not strongly related. After rough calculation and rendering, we have classified the country's strongest industrial strength into The seven urban dense areas are defined as seven urban agglomerations. These seven urban agglomerations are the Rhine urban agglomeration, the Bohemian and Lorraine urban agglomeration, the east coast urban agglomeration, the west coast urban agglomeration, and the Ring of Malawi. Lake city agglomeration, southern city agglomeration and urban agglomeration around the Great Lakes.”
Just from the names, it can be seen that the seven urban agglomerations are only temporarily used as reference by the East African government for national economic and industrial development. formal concept.
After all, these seven urban agglomerations may not have deep policy and economic connections within them. The East African government simply connected places with similar distances and similar economic development levels together to form the so-called seven cities on the map. Large urban agglomeration.
Sweite introduced the map: "The Rhine City Group is centered on the Rhine City and New Frankfurt City, including Kabwe, Lusaka, Kitwe, Lubumbashi and other important cities, covering Non-ferrous metal smelting, electric power, automobile manufacturing, steel, precision instrument manufacturing, railway and other core industries. ”
The Rhine City Agglomeration, which can also be called the capital city agglomeration, is a dual-core structure. The capital of East Africa has a prominent status, but in terms of economy, it is mainly centered on the city of New Frankfurt. The city of New Frankfurt has assumed the economic, transportation, industrial and other management functions of the Rhine City from the beginning.
"The urban agglomeration of Bohemia and Lorraine, with the cities of Harare and Bulawayo as its core, includes cities such as Tatu, Gweru, Rope... In addition to Harare and Bulawayo, it is also dominated by numerous Mainly small and medium-sized industrial and mining cities, including mining industry, steel, non-ferrous metal smelting, large machinery manufacturing, textile industry, electric power and other industries. "
"The east coast city group, with Dar es Salaam. With Mombasa as the core, including Nairobi, Bagamoyo, First Town and other important cities, the total economic output value ranks among the top in the country, second only to the Bohemian and Lorraine urban agglomerations, especially the import and export trade nationwide The highest, covering chemical industry, steel, textile, electricity and other industries. ”
“The West Coast urban agglomeration is centered on Cabinda and Luanda, including Kinshasa, Lobito, Benguela, and Alexandria. Important cities such as the port city have developed rapidly with the help of my country's trade with Atlantic countries, and are currently ranked fourth."
"The urban agglomeration around Lake Malawi, with Mbeya and Tete as its core. , Tete City has maintained rapid development in recent years. Although the gap between it and Mbeya City is still very large, due to geographical reasons, Mbeya City is at the northernmost end of Lake Malawi, while Tete City is at the southern end. The two have a high degree of complementarity and collaboration. The share of heavy industry is second only to the Bohemian and Lorraine urban agglomerations, and steel production currently ranks second in the country. "The southern urban agglomeration is led by the city of New Hamburg and Maputo. The core, the southern urban agglomeration, is the area where the original Zulu and Boer people lived. It is the area with the richest mineral resources in our country and is prominent in industrial fields such as steel, shipbuilding, and electricity. ”
“There is no obvious core city in the urban agglomeration around the Great Lakes. The most developed cities in the region are Kisumu, Mwanza and Kampala. They are the weakest among the seven major urban agglomerations, and the advantage of water transportation is the most prominent in the country. The scale of agricultural product processing industry is the largest in the country.”
The concept of seven urban agglomerations is a summary of the industrial development of the Second Five-Year Plan. They are the seven most concentrated and developed regions in East Africa, indicating that East Africa’s industry has formed a huge scale. , and relatively concentrated.
And many of the seven urban agglomerations are dominated by dual cores. The most typical ones are the cities of Dar es Salaam and Mombasa, Bohemia and Lorraine in the east coast urban agglomeration. The cities of Harare and Bulawayo in the cluster.
“The seven urban agglomerations reflect the overall distribution of industry in our country, accounting for more than 70% of our country’s industrial production.”
“However, these also provide opportunities for our country’s future industry and cities. Development has brought uncertainty. Today's high concentration of industrial production can easily lead to differences in the level of economic development across the country, but industrial agglomeration has also been beneficial to the development of my country's industry. ”
As Siweite said, it triggered everyone's thinking. The boundaries between industrial agglomeration and dispersion in East Africa are not clear. The effect of industrial agglomeration is indeed obvious, but the Second Five-Year Plan is obviously more balanced than the First Five-Year Plan.
This was especially true before the First Five-Year Plan. At that time, the central and eastern parts of East Africa accounted for most of the industrial and economic shares. Now, the industrial development in the west, south and other regions of East Africa is obviously more balanced than before the First Five-Year Plan. .
Ernst expressed his own opinion: "The development speed of my country's industry shows that there is no problem with this path at present. As for the relationship between the pursuit of growth and balance, we must look at it from a dynamic perspective."
“Today, our country’s industry is still focused on pursuing stock. Because our priority is competition with other major countries in the world, we must concentrate on doing big things and improve High production efficiency and cost reduction are more important to us. Only after firmly grasping the market should we focus our attention on other places.” The other reason is that our country’s national strength cannot support balanced development across the country, and even if we want to achieve balanced development, it is not realistic and we can only achieve relative balance.”
"The emergence of seven urban agglomerations illustrates the development trend of my country's industry in the past ten years. These seven regions, combined with the advantages of resources, population, transportation, market, etc., can emerge suddenly in the national economy and not by chance."< br>
“Now our country is facing a period of major changes in the world structure. The international situation is becoming increasingly turbulent, especially the increasingly prominent conflicts among European countries. This also represents an opportunity for us in East Africa. If we want to take advantage in the next few years , we must first ensure the expansion of the country’s industrial scale, and then consider other issues.”
Without the development of the two five-year plans, East Africa would not be able to form today’s seven urban agglomerations, at least in the west and Mozambique. Without the inclination of national policies, it is impossible for places in East Africa that were ruled relatively late to reach the same level as other places in a short period of time.
If industrial development is not in place, it is impossible to form huge urban agglomerations. Although these urban agglomerations still have a lot of room to improve their industrial strength, it also shows that East Africa’s first two five-year plans are qualified.
(End of this chapter)