First Five-Year Plan's focus is on western development. Beginning in 1900, East Africa's investment in western towns and mines, agriculture, increased significantly, especially Cabinda, Luanda, The actual policies obtained by cities such as Benguela, Kinshasa, and Bangui are much higher than those of the Dar es Salaam city city circle with loud thunder and small raindrops, or Grand Mombasa Plan which is self-funded by Eastern Province.
"During the First Five-Year Plan period, more than 200 new towns will be established in the west, especially in the vacuum area between the coast and the central area, that is, Kaisai Province, Lunda Province, Okavango Province and other areas. It is planned to introduce a large number of people to settle and work locally."
"At the same time, the population size of important cities such as Cabinda and Luanda will be supplemented. During the First Five-Year Plan period, at least two emerging cities with a population of over 500,000 will be built in the west to balance the Dar es Salaam city and Mombasa city in the east."
It goes without saying that these two cities must be Luanda and Cabinda, Cabinda corresponds to Mombasa city, and Luanda corresponds to Dar es Salaam city.
The development of the new western part of East Africa can be compared to United States's development of West Coast, or Russia's development of the Far East. Of course, the natural conditions of western East Africa are better than those of western United States, and Russia's investment in the development and construction of the Far East Empire is very large, which is actually very difficult to achieve results.
"In the past ten years, we have renovated and rebuilt Angola Region's industries and original infrastructure based on the original Angola Colony. With the efforts of millions of black workers and more than four million East African people, Thanks to the efforts, Angola's overall transportation, water conservancy, etc. have been fully improved. In contrast, the local population is unevenly distributed, especially in the middle and eastern areas. The population is too sparse and the situation is very serious."
With a population of four million (not counting black people), this level is even lower than that of Russian Siberia. In the last Russian census in 1897, the total population of Russian Siberia was more than five million, close to six million.
So Ernst said, "During the First Five-Year Plan period, the total population of Angola Region will exceed at least ten million, so that we can shoulder the important task of becoming a new pillar of the national economic construction."
"Rational use of the land and sea advantages of the western region will focus on the development of industries such as equipment manufacturing and electric power industry, especially the promotion of urbanization, converting the agricultural population in eastern East Africa into urban population here, and promoting the progress of urbanization in East Africa."
There is no doubt that the current focus of East African government has completely shifted to the industrialization construction stage, so East Africa does not pay much attention to improving agriculture in the west.
Because during this period, even the more developed central and eastern regions of East Africa were actively carrying out depopulation of agriculture.
Therefore, the construction in Angola is completely different from the immigration and development process in East Africa in the past. In the past, East Africa started with agriculture and then industry, but now East Africa's agricultural production activities are approaching their peak.
Of course, depopulation of agriculture does not mean not developing agriculture, but rather no longer developing labor-intensive agriculture, but promoting mechanized agriculture, thereby reducing the demand for agricultural population.
Although agricultural construction has a positive significance for East Africa's population growth, East Africa cannot bear the trend of continued high-speed population growth. Today, East Africa's population has exceeded 80 million (excluding blacks), second only to Russia in the world, and is still in a high-growth stage.
If the industrial structure of East Africa is not adjusted in time and efforts are made to develop industry, East Africa is likely to fall into a vicious cycle in which economic growth is held back by population growth.
In fact, East African government has already felt the pressure. Social expenditures such as medical care and education have increased significantly, and agricultural production activities cannot support these expenditures, because agricultural profits are far less than those of industry. Even if agricultural sales in East Africa are unimpeded, profits will only continue to decline.
On the one hand, the development of their own countries or their colonies by countries around the world has led to a continuous increase in the output and categories of food, Dairy and Livestock Products, and cash crops, further intensifying competition in world agriculture.
A typical example is Argentina's Dairy and Livestock Products rising sharply, which is bound to have an impact on the dairy livestock market in other countries and regions. Argentina has a vast land and sparse population, favorable climatic conditions, and low shipping costs. Its exports of Dairy and Livestock Products are of high quality and low price. At least the livestock industry in East Africa is difficult to compete with Argentina overseas.
The advantage of East African agriculture lies in tropical cash crops. In this field, East Africa undoubtedly ranks first in comprehensive strength in the world. However, Brazil, India, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean Sea region are also developing, and the technical threshold is not high, so they are also facing greater competitive pressure.
If the population of East Africans is only 20 to 30 million, or 40 to 50 million, and is stable at this value, then agricultural profits are still very promising, but the population of East Africans is second only to European, American and Asian countries in the world. With the population growing rapidly and agricultural profits continuing to decline, developing industry is currently the only way out for East Africa.
This is easy to understand. Among countries with similar area and large population, the only objects that East Africa can refer to are United States and Tsarist Russia, Britain, France, Germany and other countries. Although the population data are not bad, the area is too small and has no reference significance.
There is no doubt that Tsarist Russia is a country with greater agriculture than industry, and United States is already a relatively developed industrial country. The future situation of the two countries in the previous life is also very clear, that is, the domestic crisis in Tsarist Russia will become increasingly serious, and eventually the regime will change, and United States will take over the world hegemony.
Although the Soviet Union later emerged and led the former Russian region to become the first level of world hegemony, the gap between the Soviet Union and United States had widened greatly at that time. The gap between the two countries was at least forty or fifty years. Even if the Soviet Union's economy grew rapidly under the Soviet model, it would be difficult to close the gap.
The most representative data is the urbanization rate of the two countries. By the 1980s, the Soviet Union's urbanization level barely reached 60%, while other developed countries were generally above 70%.
Therefore, it is very important for East Africa to seize the economic development window in the early 20th century, including taking advantage of opportunities such as economic crises and wars.
During the World War period in the previous life, the original production activities of European countries were completely shifted to the military industry in order to plunge into the bottomless pit of war. You must know that before the war, Europe was the most industrially developed region in the world, and European civilian industrial production activities were stagnant due to the war, and the world market share it gave up was also the largest.
In the previous life, the world's largest market, which had been ceded due to war, was almost eaten up by the United States alone. The improvement to American industry and society is immeasurable.
World War is undoubtedly a huge opportunity for East Africa, but if it wants to seize this opportunity, East Africa must first build its own industrial base. In this case, it can make a lot of war fortune.
Therefore, in the first decade of the 20th century, Ernst went all out for the construction of East African industry. Only countries with developed industries and outside the European region can enjoy the dividends of the war economy more comfortably.
This brings us to the Far East Empire. The Far East Empire economy in the previous life actually enjoyed the dividends of World War I. During this period, national capitalism gained leaps and bounds, or a chance to breathe. However, due to the country's weak industrial base, the war dividends it received were not even as good as those of Japan.
After all, Europe's demand for various materials due to war is almost unlimited, and only industrial countries outside Europe can reap the bulk of the war dividends.
In the previous world, there were only two developed industrial countries outside of Europe: United States and Japan. In this time and space, due to the sudden rise of East Africa, there should be three countries. There may be a gap between the East African industry level and the European United States countries, but their strength is far behind Japan. And because of its geographical location, East Africa is easier to eat from both ends than United States. The trade between United States and Europe is completely dependent on Atlantic Ocean and will inevitably be restricted by the United Kingdom, while East Africa can deliver resources to the two camps through Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean.