Chapter 1363 The Transformation of Kitwei's City
The great development of the pharmaceutical industry has been affected by the East Africa environment. Just like places with more water, people are good at building water conservancy facilities. East Africa pharmaceutical industry happens to be born in a relatively harsh sanitary environment.
Without solving the problem of medical care, it is difficult for East Africa to develop, especially in areas where the climate is relatively humid and hot, or places that are prone to breeding various tropical diseases.
This is directly related to the survival of the people, so even in the poorest colonial era, the East African government put medical and health management at the forefront of national development affairs.
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Kitwe city.
Among East African cities, Kitwe is not very popular, but Kitwe is an industrial city that plays a very important role in the history of East Africa.
As of 1920, the total population of Kitwei's city was as high as more than 300,000, and its copper mine zone area was also the largest non -ferrous metal smelting and processing center in East Africa.
Kitwe is the second largest city in the Copper Belt region after Lubumbashi.
During the change of the State Administrative Region in 1896, Kitvi was divided from Schwarbly, and was classified as a new central province, which is now the central province with the core of Rhine, the capital of East Africa.
Lubumbashi, on the other hand, continues to retain its status as the provincial capital of Swabia, which also makes the gap between the two cities increasingly widening. This is understandable. As the provincial capital, Lubumbashi has a higher political level than Kitwe City. , the policy resources enjoyed are not comparable to those of Kitwe City.
However, this cannot be changed for the time being. Kitwe City belongs to the identity and status of a relatively developed industrial city in East Africa. After all, in terms of population, Kitwe can be ranked among the top thirty cities in East Africa.
In other countries, Kitve is enough to be called a big city, but in East Africa, it can only be regarded as a medium -sized city.
The formation of the city of Kitwe originated from the mining of local copper mines in East Africa, which was also one of the most important sources of income in the early days of the East African country.
In the last century, copper mines have always been the most important export minerals in East Africa, bringing a lot of fiscal revenue to East Africa. However, Kitve, who relied on copper mine, now encountered problems.
To this end, Kitwe Municipal Government has to discuss the increasingly difficult economic development situation and find new ways out and future development direction for Kitwe City's economy.
March 1920.
At this time, the European influenza has not yet affected the city of Kitve, but the entire Kitwei's city government is still windy.
Kitwe's mayor, De Boerne, convened a new round of economic development meetings, attended by city officials and local businesses in Kitwe.
De Bern said to the participants with a serious face: "Everyone, I believe you already understand the purpose of this meeting, which is how to solve the economic development constraints that our city has recently encountered."< br>
"Although from the perspective of the bright side, since the end of the 1970s, since the establishment of Kitwe, our city has developed very rapidly."
"Today, Kitwe has developed from a small and unknown place on the African continent into a large city with a population of 320,000, and is well-known around the world."
"However, we should find that the development of Kitwe City has been restricted in recent years, especially due to external competition. The development of Kitwe City has become increasingly difficult."
De Bern's statement is obviously an exaggeration. In fact, the world economy has just experienced a brief depression due to the European influenza pandemic.
Earlier, at least in East Africa, due to the influence of war dividends, most cities across the country are in a high -speed development stage, even if the same is the same.
Therefore, in recent years, the development speed of Kitville is not slow, but it is fast, but why is Derbern so nervous, this will start from other aspects.
The words of Derbern explained the root of his "alarmist".
"Some people think that I am worrying about it. After all, in the past few decades, Kitwe has been in the development stage. During the Fourth Five -Year Plan period, the economic growth rate of Kitvi is also very fast."
"However, we obviously cannot look at the surface alone, but we must look at our eyes longer, even now, we should also realize the problems encountered by the industrial development of our city."
"Everyone, tell me, what is the real economic situation of our city? Everyone can speak freely now." De Bern threw the question to everyone.
Someone said: "Mr. Mayor, you should be talking about the issue of industrial structure! After all, the country focused on this issue when drafting its five-year plan at the end of last year."
The industrial structure of Kitwe is too single. This is a well -known situation, because the economy of Kitve relies on copper ore resources.
In the past, there was no problem. In the past few decades, East Africa has vigorously developed electricity, automobiles, machinery and other industries, and the demand for metals such as copper has huge demand, which has also maintained a high -speed development of Kitve's city for decades.
De Bern nodded and said: "Yes, what else?"
Some people say: "In addition to the industrial structure, the difficulties encountered in our city's economy also include external competition, and this competition has intensified."
"Yes, in recent years, the copper ore production area in South America and Nanyang has caused a major threat to the domestic copper mines in South America and Nanyang. Atrophy has formed a huge impact on the city's industry. "
"At the same time, a group of copper mine smelting and metal processing enterprises are set up corresponding to the East and West Coast, which has formed a competitive relationship on the downstream industries of our city."
"The imported copper ore abroad has a large output, low price, and small pollution to its own country. This allows it to support this type of corporate development by relying on imported copper mines."
Copper mining, or the development of any mineral resources, is accompanied by environmental pollution, but cities in the East African copper belt are particularly serious in this regard.
Because here is in the hinterland of East Africa, at the same time is the intersection of the Congo River and the Zambi West River Basin. Every year, the industrial wastewater discharged by the cities discharged by the Copper Mine Bands of the East Africa will have a serious impact on the middle and lower reaches of the river.
The production of copper mines in Kitwe is very abundant, but the cost -effectiveness of copper mines imported from its own colonies or areas of economic backward areas is also very cost -effective, which has a small impact on the local environment. Falling into a very embarrassing situation.
"In order to cope with the competition in overseas copper ore, and the competition in the same type of domestic production enterprises, especially the coastal regions, Kitve has reached the time when it has to be changed." Mayor Debertian said.
"In fact, from the economic growth rate of Kitve's city in recent years, it can be seen initial. That is, although our city is still in a high -speed development stage, the growth rate has begun to slow down." "It's not obvious now However, when copper ore smelting in coastal areas, non -ferrous metal processing and other enterprises and factories were established, and then we have not yet completed the transformation, which will be a disaster for the economy of our city.
Someone asked: "Mayor, what do you mean?"
Mayor Debern said: "Naturally, it is to change and reshape the economy of our city. Now it is 1920. At the beginning of the national fifth five -year plan, we should respond Transformation of the economy "
Then Derbern said: "At present, my views on the economic development of our city are as follows. First of all, the conditions of our city have no significant advantages in addition to eliminating copper ore resources, and compared with other domestic cities."
“Kitwe is a city that grew out of copper mining, but apart from copper mines, what other significant advantages does our city have?”
"Politically, our city is just an ordinary prefecture -level city. In the province, it is not only comparable to the city of Rhein, the city of New Frankfurt and Lusca, and may even be ranked behind Caber."
"In terms of transportation, our city does not have significant advantages. Although there are railways, highways, and canals, they are not as important national transportation hubs as new Frankfurt."
Through decades of development, the transportation of East Africa has now been very developed, and the railway and highway networks all over the country have been established. This has also greatly depreciated the so -called "transportation hub" in East Africa.
Unless it is a transportation hub with an important position in East Africa like New Frankfurt City, it is worthy of attention.
This response is particularly obvious on the railway. In the last century, the number of East Africa railways was small and the mileage was short, which enabled any cities along the railway to benefit from it and promote the development of the city.
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However, today, East Africa is already the second largest railway country in the world, with more than 300,000 kilometers of railways across the country. Basically all important cities are connected by railways.
In this case, the status of cities along the railway lines and even some railway hub cities has been greatly reduced. In the era of lack of railways, there were few route options. However, now that the East African railway is so developed, there are many route options, which has relieved the status of some railway hubs. effect.
For example, in the last century, when the East African Central Railway was built, most people and materials relied heavily on the Central Railway. Now, the proportion of people and goods on the Central Railway has actually dropped significantly.
This is true for some important railway or highway hubs, not to mention that Kitwe is not an important transportation hub city. Of course, Kitwe is also a city where roads, railways and canals meet, but such transportation hubs abound in East Africa.
Just like the Yuan East Empire of the previous life, with the completion of the highway network and the railway network, it has formed many regional transportation hubs. This is a good thing for the entire country, but it is not a good thing for some of the original important transportation hub cities.
In the last century, Kitve was not a transportation hub in the last century, but because the East Africa railway was small at that time, it was profitable as the Kitrevi city along the Central Railway. It has become weak.
Kitwe's water transportation is exactly the opposite. Due to the topography of East Africa, East Africa's water transportation has never occupied an important position in transportation. It can only be used as a supplement to railways and roads. Therefore, although Kitwe has artificial canals, it is also very difficult. It is difficult to develop based on this.
Derbern went on to say: "On traffic, our city has not formed favorable conditions for national business, logistics and other centers."
"In terms of resources, although the copper mine resources in our city occupy an important position across the country, they are also threatened by external competition."
“The first is the rise of external copper mines, which has caused our copper resources to become a substitute resource. Secondly, the copper mines in the empire itself are relatively evenly distributed, which also has a positive impact on our copper mining in Kitwe City. and other related industries have had an impact.”
The copper mine resources of the copper ore are the richest in East Africa in the country, but the copper ore resources in other parts of East Africa are not small, such as Bohemia, Salzburg Province, and the West Coast Province. Mining reserves.
"In addition to copper ore resources, other resources in our city are very obvious, which is also an important reason for the relatively single industrial structure of our city."
"In other aspects, our city is not outstanding in education, scientific research and other fields, which makes our city's dominant industrial position unstable."
“Therefore, Kitwe’s development prospects are not clear, or even very bleak. Under such circumstances, if we do not reintegrate the city’s resources and adjust the industrial structure, Kitwe City will have It may decline and drop out of the top 20 national economies.”
Kitve's population is in the top 30 in East Africa, but the economy is ranked in the top 20 in China. This can also be seen that the current East Africa's economic quality is relatively high in East Africa.
Because of this, Mayor Debert was unwilling that Kitvi became an optional city of the empire in the future.
After all, Kitwe's economy is good, which has led to the fact that the quality of Kitwe's officials has always been at the upper-middle level in the country, and it is precisely because of this that this high-quality bureaucrats are more "charged".
Why do we say this? The reason is very simple. If bureaucrats in any country in the world want to "progress", they will inevitably seek to work in economically developed areas. This is actually a kind of talent siphon.
In this era, Kitwe was considered a relatively economically developed region in East Africa, so the quality of officials in Kitwe was higher than that in other parts of East Africa.
Only mediocre bureaucrats will choose, or have to be "exiled" to, to sit on the bench in backward areas, at least as long as the highest levels of government do not intervene.
This can easily lead to a vicious cycle, with capable officials actively moving to economically developed areas, while bureaucrats with mediocre or even useless abilities stay in areas with already difficult economies to "dominate others." This will further exacerbate regional differences. unbalanced development.
As for Debern to be the mayor of Kitwe City, he has abilities and ideas, so he does not want to see the decline of Kitwe City.
Derbeln said to the other people from the city government: "Therefore, for the development of Kitwe, we should come up with a practical method. At least in my appointment, Kitwe must be successfully transformed."
"The industries of our city must transform and develop towards diversified development, and get rid of the serious dependence on copper mine resources step by step.
"Especially for manufacturing, we must promote the development of emerging industries such as electricity, automotive parts, and home appliance manufacturing. Our city itself has developed non -ferrous metal smelting and deep processing systems. Relying on this, it promotes the development of related industries and realizes its strengths to strive for power. "
"At the same time, promote cooperation with the city of Rhein, Mobia, New Frankfurt to introduce new technologies, new talents and new ideas."
For this, it is mainly because Kitwei's education and scientific research capabilities are relatively weak. After all, East Africa's higher education and large -scale scientific research work is mainly led by the East African Central Government. Naturally, there is no related talent and technology.
Kitwe City itself cannot generate these resources. Although Kitwe City’s economic capacity is based on the development of education and scientific research, if the Rhine City does not approve it, Kitwe City will naturally not be able to build it well. Universities and key laboratories.
However, Kitve is not without advantages, that is, close to the city of Rhein, and returning to the city of Rhein. After all, Kitve belongs to the Central Provincial Province, and the provincial government is also in Rhein City. Talents can get a month near the water tower. This situation is at least stronger than most cities in East Africa.
(End of this chapter)