Bella City.
In the national positioning of East Africa, Bella City is quite special. It is one of the central cities in the southeastern coastal area, connecting two important ports of Dar es Salaam in the north and Maputo in the south.
In the past ten years, Beira has been the fastest-growing city in East Africa. Today, Beira's total population has exceeded 300,000. As the fastest sea access route for areas such as Bohemian Industrial Products and the Lorraine Industrial Zone (Zimbabwe and eastern Botswana), Beira is almost responsible for most of the goods trade in the central industry.
Kelta, the new mayor of Bella City, said, "At present, the city's economic level is constantly rising, and it has become the country's first export port for important materials such as sugar, tobacco, copper ore, and machinery in the central region. Among several eastern coastal cities, it is second only to Mombasa city, Dar es Salaam city and New Hamburg City. During the First Five-Year Plan period, our city's industry and economy will definitely surpass New Hamburg City and become the third city in eastern East Africa."
Relying on the Central Industrial Zone, Bella City is likely to become or surpass a big city like Mombasa or Dar es Salaam city in the future, because the industrial level of the Central Industrial Zone currently ranks first in East Africa.
No matter whether it is Dar es Salaam city or Maputo City and other cities in the south, they cannot form effective competitiveness against Port of Beira. Even because of the rise of Port of Beira, the previous generation belongs to Some goods from Zambia and southern Congo are more willing to export from Port of Beira, so the rise of Bella City is indeed the greatest threat to Dar es Salaam city.
In the past life, there were a large number of countries in East Africa. Due to various reasons, these countries could not agree on transportation construction. They generally built transportation networks with their own capitals as the core. This also made transportation cooperation among African countries very weak and vulnerable to factors such as politics and war.
The establishment of East Africa has undoubtedly eliminated this sense of regional division, which is also an important factor in Bella's rapid rise.
Kelta said, "Thanks to the rapid development of Port of Beira in the 1990s, Bella City is now one of the important industrial cities in the country, which is beneficial to our city's competition with other cities in First Five-Year Plan."
"Before 1903, our goal was to at least surpass New Hamburg City and solidify its status as the third city on the eastern coast. On this basis, our city's population would exceed at least 400,000 and the industrial scale would increase by at least 15%."
"With the help of the background of First Five-Year Plan, we will implement the further development of our city's petroleum and chemical industries and become a supply center for inland petroleum and chemical raw materials."
With the rise of the petroleum and chemical industries in East Africa, most coastal cities in East Africa have gained new opportunities for development. The industrial areas in central East Africa do not produce oil, so oil can only rely on imports or northern East Africa.
Beira is the port for importing oil in the Central Industrial Zone. Austro-Hungarian Empire, Romania and Russian oil resources will first arrive at Port of Beira and then be transported inland by railway.
Therefore, relying on this advantage, during First Five-Year Plan, East African Central Government is preparing to deploy a larger-scale petroleum industry in Port of Beira, mainly in the two aspects of refining and storage and transportation. The production includes fuel, lubricating oil, petroleum wax, petroleum asphalt, petroleum coke and other petroleum products, while providing corresponding production raw materials for the petrochemical industry.
The implementation of the petroleum industry in Bella City is inseparable from the Central Industrial Zone. Without the huge energy demand of the Central Industrial Zone, there would be no need to go to great lengths to deploy related industries in Beira.
This is easy to understand. Without industry, the demand for energy will naturally be very small. In the previous life, Far East Empire went from an oil exporting country to the largest oil importing country due to industrial development.
Today, in the energy field, coal's dominance is still stable, but East Africa has begun large-scale development of energy such as oil and natural gas, and has surpassed United States in this field, ranking first in the world.
Against this background, important coastal cities such as Beira are more or less vigorously exploring the potential of the oil industry and injecting new blood into East African industry.
Of course, the three major oil producing areas in the world are United States, Europe and East Africa. East Africa has reached the third position in the world in terms of production, but it still imports a large amount of oil from abroad. This shows how much East African government attaches great importance to the oil industry.
Kelta: "The petroleum industry is expected to become an important industry in the 20th century like the electric power industry. At present, the electric power industry has exerted great power in various countries around the world, driving the development of a large number of related industries and becoming one of the important symbols of the industrial development of various countries."
"With the development of the internal combustion engine and the development of the chemical industry, the prospects for the petroleum industry have become very clear. Petroleum has become the second largest energy source in East Africa after coal. Therefore, the development of the petroleum industry will be the focus of East Africa in the future. Our city must also seize the opportunity to become an important center for petroleum refining and by-product processing in the country."
Compared with East Africa, the current demand for oil in other countries in the world is not large. Therefore, the fact that oil has become the second largest energy source in East Africa does not hold true in other countries, and may not even be as large as the use of natural gas. This is because the history of large-scale application of natural gas is earlier than that of oil. Because a lot of natural gas comes from by-products of coal mining, so with the development of the early coal industry, the natural gas industry was formed relatively early.
During the British First Industrial Revolution period, the natural gas industry was formed and became the main energy source for the European lighting industry.
Kelta: "In addition, during the First Five-Year Plan period, in addition to building a petroleum refinery with the latest technology, our city will also innovate the city's steel industry and install the Bella City steel plant. Prepare for innovation, build the Bella City coal washing plant, Bella City second pharmaceutical factory, Fifth Power Plant and other enterprises, and at the same time connect with the Xindai Town aluminum industry, develop aluminum product processing, etc."
Bella City In the 1990s, through cooperation with German chemical and pharmaceutical companies, the pharmaceutical industry here was relatively developed. Therefore, on this basis, East Africa focused on strengthening the local pharmaceutical industry, but it was mainly exported.
From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, many chemical and pharmaceutical companies were inseparable, and the strongest country in this field was Germany.
Of course, pharmaceutical companies in this era are relatively chaotic. Many medicines have not been effectively tested and supervised, especially psychotropic drugs. There is a high probability that they were illegal ingredients in previous lives. Just like people do not have a comprehensive understanding of the dangers of radioactive substances, most people in this era do not have a comprehensive understanding of these substances.
What really made Europe, and even the whole world, realize its harm was the final result of the massive use by the military during the World Wars period.
Therefore, although East African government strongly supports the pharmaceutical companies of Bella City, they are quite cautious in their use in the domestic medical system. However, this does not prevent the pharmaceutical industry from making huge profits. East African countries use it with caution or simply ban it, but they have no psychological burden on exports. And because they are as addictive as tobacco, many pharmaceutical exports basically have no sales problems.
In addition to manufacturing, the aluminum product processing industry was also a key industry in Beira City during the First Five-Year Plan period. East Africa has deployed the electrolytic aluminum industry in Hindai Town at the mouth of the Zambezi River. An important reason for the construction of the fifth power plant in Beira City is to provide power support for Hindai Town. The two cities will develop collaboratively. If the leading city of Tete is added, it will be a three-place collaboration.
Xindai Town This province has a short development history, and the Electrolytic aluminum industry has a huge demand for electricity, so the power gap is huge. In this case, it is very important to "borrow" electricity from Bella City and Tete City nearby, Tete City is rich in coal resources, so the cost of power generation is low. As an important port city, Bella City facilitates the import of coal from India and southern East Africa. It also has a large population and a strong industrial base, so the power generation capacity is relatively abundant. Therefore, the two places can provide part of the power gap for Xindai Town.