April 1892.
First Town.
"China currently has more than five thousand town-level administrative units. They generally encompass around five or six villages and one street, with populations ranging from several thousand to nearly ten thousand," said Gels, director of the National Bureau of Statistics.
Influenced by immigration, East Africa's population was in fact relatively concentrated at the local level. For one thing, too few people clearing wilderness land simply would not do.
Secondly, East Africa's natural and social conditions had been harsh in its early days. Indigenous peoples and wild beasts both posed threats to East African immigrants, so villages were never too small. Villages of merely a dozen people, or even just a few, did not exist in East Africa. They had to contain at least several hundred people, while large villages could even reach a thousand.
Furthermore, East Africa was dominated by plateaus. Generally speaking, the country's terrain was fairly flat and open, so there were not many tiny mountain villages hemmed in by the landscape.
Moreover, to facilitate administration, the East African government also actively concentrated people in one place. Population movement in East Africa was mainly guided by the government.
However, East Africa's villages and towns were not particularly large either. Every year, under policy support, East Africa's population mainly spread toward the interior or undeveloped regions, where new settlements were then formed.
This gave the eastern regions a relatively high natural population growth rate, but their actual resident populations were not especially large, because people were constantly moving out to live or work in new areas.
Ernst said, "The countryside is where East Africa's population is mainly concentrated. Around forty million people in our country live in rural areas, accounting for roughly eighty percent of the national population. Therefore, to invigorate the rural economy, towns