Steel output was an important factor East Africa used to measure the level of the nation's industrial development, so it was always placed first at national industrial development conferences.
The potential of East Africa's steel industry remained enormous. As the two Five-Year Plans unfolded, the country's industrial standards rose, and the shortfall in steel supply grew ever greater.
Therefore, during the Third Five-Year Plan, continuing to substantially increase East Africa's steel output remained an important task for the East African government.
With the analysis of the steel industry concluded, the East African government did not continue summarizing other industries. Instead, it first gave an overview of regional economic and industrial development across the country.
Svit said, "At present, our country has formed three major industrial cluster regions: the east, the center, and the west. Relying on these three industrial cluster regions, our industry has developed at high speed, forming three major industrial belts that are in no way inferior to those of other countries."
Among East Africa's three major industrial cluster regions, even the weakest, the western industrial cluster region, had gained considerable scale through the two Five-Year Plans. Even among the great powers, it would count as an area with respectable industrial development.
Besides this, industrial development in southern East Africa was also good. However, southern industry was concentrated in the coastal cities of New Hamburg City and Maputo City, while inland industry and urban development remained relatively weak.
Therefore, the southern industrial cluster could only count as half of one. In effect, East Africa had formed three and a half major industrial cluster regions, and with the equator as the dividing line, the East African economy clearly displayed a pattern of strength in the south and weakness in the north.
"At present, based on actual conditions, we