New Frankfurt City.
As an emerging city, New Frankfurt City's industrial standards had continued to rise. During the First Five-Year Plan, a large number of high-quality projects had taken root in the region, especially such thriving industries as textiles, equipment manufacturing, automobile manufacturing, and electronics manufacturing.
New Frankfurt City's regional advantages were chiefly reflected in transportation. It was one of East Africa's most important land transportation hubs, where waterways, railways, and highways converged in dense networks, stretching across East Africa like the tentacles of an octopus.
A section of the East African Grand Canal passed through New Frankfurt City's jurisdiction, linking the water systems of the Congo River basin and the Zambezi River basin. Of course, it did not run through the city itself, but through the territory under its administration.
This canal had already connected the Copperbelt with the southern cities and opened portions of the Congo River tributaries and Zambezi River tributaries to navigation. Its total length exceeded 180 kilometers. Such a maddeningly colossal project was far from an isolated case in East Africa in recent years; countless Black workers had fallen beneath East Africa's terrifying scale of infrastructure construction.
Taking advantage of the Katanga Plateau's terrain, the artificial canal flowed from northeast to southwest. Its principal water source therefore came from the more rain-abundant Congo River basin. It not only improved navigability, but also served as a water-diversion project, effectively replenishing the Zambezi River basin.
Its headwaters primarily came from tributaries of the Lualaba River in the upper reaches of the Congo River, so its overall water volume was relatively abundant. Supporting canal systems for farmland irrigation had been built along its route, playing a major role in stabilizing grain output around Rhine City.
After all, annual precipitation around Rhine City had already reached more than 800