As time goes by, the contradiction between Japan and Russia becomes increasingly acute, and along with it, many domestic industrial projects in East Africa under First Five-Year Plan are completed and put into production.
First Five-Year Plan is an important national policy to promote the rapid growth of East African industry in a short period of time, which also caused the output of East African industrial goods to enter a stage of further rapid growth from 1903.
"From 1901 to now, the East African industry ization process has been accelerating, and a large number of industrial products have been domestically produced. As long as these products are produced, they will inevitably face an unavoidable problem, that is, who will these products be sold to?"
"Since the 1990s, the country has begun to create a large national market. However, although relying solely on the domestic market to ensure East African industry production is feasible, it also has a great negative effect, resulting in distribution conflicts. This contradiction is impossible to eliminate in a short period of time."
"So our country must rely on foreign markets to relieve the instability of domestic supply and demand. Even in the early stages of industrialization, the rapid production of a large number of industrial products will lead to oversupply. The export of foreign goods can alleviate the inconsistency in domestic distribution issues to a certain extent."
The reason why the Soviet Union was able to flourish during its first two five-year plans was that, in addition to the excellent economic crisis situation in various countries at the time, the most important thing was that it created a huge consumer market through redistribution, so that after the establishment of the Soviet industrial system, the country's industrial development could achieve a positive cycle.
East Africa is similar to United States, which created huge domestic market demand through colonial means. Originally, the immigrant group was a truly proletarian group. Not only did they have no material property, but they also had no jobs and income. However, after immigration, they obtained the land of the indigenous people through plunder, and operated on this basis to create value.
Therefore, the large domestic market mentioned by Svit is also the basic guarantee for the current construction of East African industry. East Africa is in the transition stage from an agricultural country to an industrial country. Agriculture is still the main body of East African economy, and the consumption power level of East African farmers is above the world average.
The most typical one is the East African light industry, led by the textile industry. In the past, most of the light industry products were almost consumed by the country's agricultural population. Only a small amount was exported as basic industrial products to developed countries such as Germany and used as raw materials for new industrial production for further processing.
Svit mentioned. "With the construction of the textile industry in the west, the expansion of the textile industry in various regions, as well as technological progress, improvement of mechanical efficiency and other factors, my country's textile industry production has ushered in great progress."
"East Africa does not lack basic materials such as cotton, linen, silk, and wool required for textile industry production. The cotton planting area in East Africa has been continuously expanding in the past. From north to south, from east to west, a large number of cotton fields have been constructed and put into production with various varieties. Among them, the output of long-staple cotton has been second only to Egypt."
"At the same time, East Africa is one of the few major hemp-growing countries in the world. Ramie, jute, sisal and other hemps are widely grown in East Africa and have grown to a considerable scale. Among them, sisal production ranks first in the world."
"The scale of raw silk production is small, but the climate environment in East Africa and the guidance of past national policy support have made my country's raw silk production second only to Asian countries."
"The wool textile industry, whose main raw material is wool, is rapidly forming a scale in southern my country and can basically meet the domestic market demand in the future."
"At the population level, our country's fertility rate has remained at a high level over the years, and the labor force required by various industries is relatively sufficient."
"With the support and construction of light industry during the First Five-Year Plan period, my country's textile industry has developed rapidly, but this has also put forward higher demands on the market, and East Africa's advantages in the domestic textile industry market are not as good as those of other major countries."
This is very understandable. Other major countries in the world are mainly located in the temperate zone, and the temperate zone is characterized by four distinct seasons. Therefore, the demand for clothing is naturally greater than in East Africa. Almost every season has corresponding clothing, and in order to keep warm in winter, more textile raw materials are needed for clothing.
This can also be seen from the construction of palaces of European royal families. Palaces in many countries are divided into the Winter Palace and summer palaces. This was true in Russia, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the original French Empire period. However, it is impossible to build two palaces in East Africa according to the rainy season and the dry season.
As a tropical country, East Africa has small seasonal changes, and is mainly focused on changes in precipitation rather than temperature differences. In this case, East Africans only needs simple clothing to meet daily needs.
This is obviously relatively unfavorable news for the textile industry in East Africa. On the one hand, East Africa has sufficient raw materials, but on the other hand, demand is low. The expansion of the textile industry in East Africa will inevitably solve market problems.
Svit said, "Therefore, my country's textile industry has passed the stage of only satisfying the domestic market in the past. In the future, the further development of the textile industry will inevitably lead to more international markets."
"However, the competitiveness in the international market is not strong. The textile industry has always been the shortcomings of East Africa's light industry. my country's light industry has developed vigorously in recent years and finally formed a system, but it has also lost valuable time to enter the international market."
The development of light industry in East Africa can be said to be a weak link in the development field of East African industry. It was not until the First Five-Year Plan period that many light industrial products in East Africa were able to achieve industrial production.
Light industry is simply summarized as food, textiles, furniture, papermaking, printing, daily chemicals, stationery, cultural supplies, sporting goods industry and other industries that are closely related to people's lives.
It can be said unceremoniously that the most basic products such as pots and pans have gone through a long process from scratch in East Africa.
In the early days, East Africa's light industrial products basically relied on imports and handicrafts. For example, the most common product, bricks, East Africa's early production basically started through the brick kiln inherited from Sultanate of Zanzibar.
Even now, East Africa has a relatively large gap in light industrial products. On the one hand, productivity still exists in the form of traditional handicrafts, with weak technology and low output. On the other hand, East Africa's rapidly increasing population has kept East Africa's demand for light industrial products on the rise.
Moreover, this traditional handicraft industry still has some tenacious vitality in East Africa, which is one of the important reasons why East Africa is still not considered an industrial country.
Therefore, East Africa's light industry was quite weak in the first thirty years. Except for important fields such as the textile industry, many light industries basically did not exist. Instead, they relied on imports and traditional handicrafts to meet the country's demand for light industry products.
It was only after the establishment of the heavy industry system in East Africa that it began to drive the development of light industry and realize the large-scale production of most light industry products.
However, it still faces serious problems such as small scale, scattered production, and poor technology. Therefore, during the First Five-Year Plan period, East Africa focused on the problem of weak light industry development and invested in a number of new modern light industry factories.
Among them, the cotton textile industry occupies the majority, especially Angola Region in the west, which has formed a new cotton textile industry production base.
The food industry in East Africa is a dominant industry in the light industry. Relying on East Africa's rich products and huge market demand, it developed earlier. In particular, the northeast and north are relatively developed and can become competitive with European and American countries.
However, under the overall national conditions of East Africa, which focuses on investment in heavy industry, the serious imbalance or lack of light industry is a serious problem, which cannot be quickly eliminated in a short time.
Moreover, the overall light industry in East Africa is insufficient, but some parts of it are facing the problem of lack of market. This contradictory phenomenon is becoming more and more prominent in East Africa.
Therefore, while looking for markets for East African light industry, we must continue to upgrade and transform the East African light industry sector at the same time.
The mission of East African government is to guide and integrate the domestic handicraft industry to transform into light industry, and at the same time seek many international markets to inject development momentum into some of the already developed light industries in East Africa.