Of course, although building the Cabinda Railway was difficult, it was not an impossible task for East Africa. The vast experience accumulated during the construction of the Hesse Railway made this tropical rainforest railway spanning the Congo River highly feasible.
The only shortcoming was that Cabinda had no railway directly connecting it to Luanda. The starting point of the western coastal railway was Soyo Town directly across from Cabinda, on the south bank of the Congo River estuary, cutting off Cabinda's direct connection with the cities of southern Angola.
At present, however, Cabinda City did not have Luanda City's confidence. It would already be burning incense to the high heavens if it could secure an extension of the Kinshasa Railway to Cabinda City.
Of course, there was nothing wrong with the Cabinda City government's thinking. But once Cabinda City's oil resources were developed, Cabinda would be fully capable of rising to become one of East Africa's most powerful cities.
After all, the oil resources of Cabinda alone were equivalent to roughly half the oil resources of the entire Far East Empire in his previous life. Coupled with its advantages as a port city and favorable policy support, its importance to East Africa far surpassed that of Luanda.
As the construction of the "three regions" proceeded, resources from across East Africa were drawn toward those three areas, including new schools and hospitals.
Naturally, however, the educational and medical conditions in those regions could not yet compare with those in the central and eastern regions. Take Cabinda City, for example.
There was only one hospital in all of Cabinda, and the entire hospital had just over seventy staff members. That amounted to only one doctor for every thousand or so people.
Even so, it was far better than the overall level