"Kitwe City's urban district had undergone preliminary renovation. By the end of this year, more than a dozen medium-sized and large enterprises, along with hundreds of small workshop-style factories, had been shut down, greatly reducing the city's industrial waste."
Throughout 1921, this had been the main focus of the Kitwe City government. It had also severely affected the city's fiscal revenue, leaving it unable to fill those gaps immediately.
Yet Kitwe City had not come away empty-handed. After shutting down a batch of the worst polluters and numerous small workshops, the urban district of Kitwe City welcomed long-overdue changes.
Although towering chimneys could still be seen in Kitwe City, belching smoke into the sky, they no longer blanketed half the city's heavens as they once had.
On certain days in the past, industrial production had caused visibility in Kitwe City's urban district to plummet. It had not been as exaggerated as London's situation, but it had still been enough to endanger the health of residents.
Now, Kitwe City's industry had contracted drastically, while the factories that remained were the city's arteries, at least irreplaceable in the short term.
The Kitwe City government's policy toward those enterprises was to reform what could be reformed, while providing assistance in other areas.
In the past, half of Kitwe City had been shrouded in thick smoke. Now, its emissions were more like a few strokes of ink on a sheet of white paper, carrying a certain poetic charm.
Replacing those heavily polluting manufacturers were enterprises and institutions primarily engaged in consumption and commercial services. Though they could not replace the factories that had been shut down, they kept Kitwe City's economy from looking too ugly.
It had to be understood that, under the effects of the economic depression, the entire East African economy was