Chapter 1112 Investment Promotion
East Africa has become increasingly domineering internationally in recent years, and there is no room for mercy in the struggle for interests, especially at this juncture when East Africa wants to enter more international markets, and the Far Eastern Empire is the third largest in East Africa. The market in East Africa must be a key concern. As for the first place, it is still the Central and Eastern European market, followed by the Western European market.
This is determined by the industrial structure of East Africa. East Africa can be proud of its heavy industry and agriculture. If you want to sell many heavy industry products, the other party must have the spending power, and the same is true for agriculture. .
East Africa’s foreign agricultural trade is dominated by tropical cash crops, and the largest consumer of cash crops in the world is Europe.
Europe itself does not have a rich climate, especially lacks tropical climate types, and Central and Eastern Europe has harsher climate conditions than Western Europe. Coupled with the distance advantage between East Africa and Central and Eastern European markets, Central and Eastern Europe has become the largest agricultural product in East Africa. consumer market.
As for Western Europe, after being developed on the west coast of East Africa, it has developed very rapidly in recent years due to its geographical convenience. However, it also has the most competitors. Caribbean countries, South America, and West Africa can all compete with East Africa, while those on the east coast can The only competition with East African agriculture was India under British control.
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Berlin.
A business delegation organized by the Maputo City Government came to Berlin all the way to prepare to raise development funds in Berlin.
Since the start of the Third Five-Year Plan, East African policies have been further liberalized, which has also allowed Maputo City to see opportunities. For Maputo City, what is most lacking in development today is money.
As an important city on the east coast of East Africa, Maputo City has not enjoyed many policy dividends. Most of its early development funds were supported by the province.
However, the strength of Hanseatic Province is limited after all, so if it wants to go further, Maputo City can only look abroad.
At this time, Maputo City was also trying to attract investment from Portugal by relying on its status as the "political center of the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique".
But after all, Portugal is a small country and its economic level is still poor. It is difficult to meet the needs of Maputo City.
In the previous life, Portugal plus its colonies still had a population of more than 10 million, but now Portugal's several overseas colonies are small and pitiful, and its economy has plummeted, making it a third-rate country in Europe.
"Berlin is indeed a world-class metropolis. Just with this level of prosperity, I am afraid that Dar es Salaam may not be able to catch up with it in twenty years."
"Berlin's population should be close to three million , more than twice the size of Dar es Salaam, no But we don’t have to belittle ourselves. One million is not the limit for Dar es Salaam, but the policy is not in place for the time being. Otherwise, doubling the population will still be no problem.”
“And although Berlin is not. larger, but the level of development may not be as high as Dar es Salaam has a high city, Berlin has it, Dar es Salaam basically has it, and Dar es Salaam is not outside the political center. Dar es Salaam can develop to the scale it is today. , it can be said that it is not easy. ”
Berlin. It is the political center of Germany, and Dar es Salaam is not even the provincial capital, not to mention the capital. Today, the provincial capital of Maritime Province is still the first town. After the East African capital was moved, the provincial government did not move. It is also the first town. The main reason why the city can continue to operate.
“Alas, let alone big cities like Berlin and Dar es Salaam, our city of Maputo should set Beira as our goal first!”
The conversation between members of the Maputo business delegation attracted the attention of Kweil, a receptionist at the Berlin city hall and the business manager of Rooneybank Berlin.
Kwell is no stranger to East Africa, but he doesn’t know much about it. Because of East Africa’s past policies, small banks like Rooney Bank have no ability to participate in investments in East Africa. Kwell asked the person who just spoke without leaving a trace: "Director Rogge, your Maputo City should be considered a big city in East Africa, right? After all, Maputo City is the capital of the former colony of Mozambique, and East Africa should attach great importance to it. "That's right?"
The man named Rogge said: "Mr. Kwell, you are wrong. Maputo is indeed in the middle and upper reaches of East African cities. But the economy ranks around 30 or 40 nationwide. The Portuguese did value Maputo in the past, but Maputo was only an ordinary city within the empire."
G. Will: "Why is this? Since Maputo is valued by the Portuguese, then the conditions in Maputo should not be bad, right?"
Rogge explained: "Of course, Maputo is also considered a relatively good port city in East Africa. However, Maputo's geographical location is too far south and there is not much advantage in resources. Moreover, the East African economy is coordinated by the central government. Management, so urban development in East Africa is closely related to policies. The policies available to Maputo City are not outstanding nationwide, so Maputo’s development has an upper limit after all.”
For this, Kewell has also heard about it, because East Africa is the most typical non-free market country in the world. If this kind of country were placed in Europe, it would easily arouse the resentment of other countries. However, East Africa is far away overseas and its military strength is quite strong. Therefore, there is no country that has nothing to do to bring this topic to East Africa to create trouble.
Under European public opinion, the freer the economy, the better. Businessmen generally resent government control, so Kewell asked curiously: "Can you tell me about your domestic economic situation? What do I think about East Africa?" I am still curious about how this country’s economy develops.”
Rogge did not refuse this request, and as Rogge told it, Kewell began to slowly understand the basics of East Africa’s economic development. Logically, it can be said that most of the East African economy is completely under the control of the East African government.
Kwell said curiously: "Don't you feel disgusted under this economic system?"
Hearing this, Rogge's eyes became sharp. In fact, Rogge was not a businessman, but the director of the Investment Promotion Office of the Maputo Municipal Government. The same was true for most of the members of the delegation who came to attract investment this time, either from Maputo. City government personnel are either personnel from some enterprises, and most of the enterprises in Maputo City are state-owned enterprises, mainly local enterprises.
Rogg organized his language and said: "Our East African economy has been operating like this from the beginning, and the development of East Africa in recent years has been above the world average, so we naturally live in this country. This is East Africa is a matter of course.”
“Of course, now that the policy is liberalized, we are also actively connecting with the international market. As the country is undergoing reforms in the economic field, this is also the main prerequisite for us to come to Berlin to attract investment.”
There is not much worth saying about the economic system in East Africa over the past fifty years. This has always been the case here, so the new generation in East Africa has no special feeling for the economic system in East Africa, which is completely different from that in the world.
Furthermore, East Africa has been developing at a rapid pace, its international status is becoming more and more prominent, and the general environment is improving. Naturally, domestic conflicts will not be particularly prominent. Although there are definitely people who are blindly superstitious about the free market. But it’s not the norm in East Africa either.
Kwell was just curious. Although he didn't know much about the psychology of East Africans, he was German after all, so it was hard for him to tell anyone.
So Kewell began to seek opportunities from this policy change in East Africa. As an important city on the west coast of the Indian Ocean, Maputo City definitely has more opportunities. It depends on whether it can seize it. Kwell's ability.
So he began to ask Rogge some questions about the basic conditions of Maputo City, focusing on population, income, minerals, and the situation of enterprises.
As Rogge told, Kewell also realized that Maputo City definitely has great potential, but the premise is that Maputo City’s resources can be well utilized. In terms of population, Maputo City alone has With a population of nearly 300,000, it is considered a relatively large city in Germany, and the consumption level of East Africans is not low, so a lot can be said about the consumption power of Maputo City alone.
(End of this chapter)