For Plains Province, the economic breakthrough point during the "Five-Five" Plan was difficult to grasp. As far as the province's leading industries were concerned, Plains Province had already pushed them to the limit, reaching the highest level in East Africa.
However, Plains Province's industries were mainly centered on grain cultivation, which meant their profits were actually inferior to those of the cash-crop agriculture developed in the Somalia region. This, to a certain extent, reflected the characteristics of industrial coordination within East Africa.
Fortunately, East Africa was a nation made up of immigrants, without historical baggage, and its population distribution was largely suited to the current level of regional economic development.
At present, under East Africa's free-market environment, the trend toward privatization had become increasingly apparent. Plains Province was merely a bargaining chip used by the East African government to balance the commercial grain market.
And without question, at East Africa's current stage of agricultural development, state-owned farms still held certain advantages. This was mainly because East Africa's market had been open for too short a time, and large private agricultural enterprises had yet to take shape. The widespread emergence of such production units would still require at least another decade.
March 1921.
The epidemic in Europe had been brought under preliminary control, and social order had begun to recover steadily. Yet against this backdrop, new factors of unrest had also begun to make a comeback across Europe.
March 12.
Britain, France, Germany, Austria, and other countries reconvened in Berlin, preparing to launch a military intervention in Russia.
German Prime Minister Hermann said, "The Russian Labor Party has completely consolidated the stability of its regime. By distributing land to Russian peasants, confiscating banks, factories, mines, and other property, and improving the treatment of workers at the bottom, they have bought