The economic colonization of the Abyssinian Empire is an important step in establishing East African economic sphere, because currently it is the only country with a good and independent economy around East Africa.
Like other countries and regions, except for the UK's Cape Town and Red Sea colonies, none has a population of over one million.
Cape Town has an early development history. It has experienced hundreds of years of development from the Netherlands to the United Kingdom. After the end of South African War, a large number of Boers returned to Cape Colony, further increasing the population of Cape Town.
The initial collection of Red Sea colonies is the result of Apennine Peninsula population overflow. After Germany, Italy has become the mainstream group of European immigrants. In the past few years, Mozambique and Angola in East Africa have absorbed many Italian immigrants.
This allowed the Italian immigrants groups in East Africa to quickly catch up with the Slavs immigrant groups. However, the Slavs immigrant groups in East Africa mainly come from various southern regions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and have been deeply affected by Germany ization to a certain extent. However, the number of Slavs immigrants from Tsarist Russia is not large.
The situation of the surrounding countries in East Africa, that is, except for the Abyssinian Empire, all others are colonies. This is the proper situation on African continent. Non-indigenous independent countries like East Africa are the real wonders.
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"Since 1873, a large amount of production equipment has been imported from Germany and other places, thus realizing the leapfrog development of my country's industry. However, nearly two decades have passed and many equipment have lagged behind the times. East Africa's overall industrial technology and equipment also need to be innovated, especially in non-emerging industrial fields."
East Africa has always wanted to upgrade its industrial system, because most of the equipment imported into East Africa was in the 1970s, but the actual age of some equipment may be earlier.
Ernst continued, "At present, old industrial equipment is mainly concentrated in the central and eastern inland areas. Therefore, this technological equipment innovation should start from the inland areas first, and at the same time, it should mainly adopt East African independent new technologies and new equipment."
"Of course, old equipment still does not need to be eliminated immediately. It will be concentrated in the west and north, so as to achieve further healthy development of the overall strength of our country's industry."
In the 1970s, East Africa was still mainly in the east, so its industry was basically deployed in the eastern region. However, in the 1980s, as East Africa developed the central region, a large number of backward production capacities were transferred to the central region, promoting the rise of heavy industrial bases in the central region.
Of course, in the mid-to-late 1980s, as East Africa's education, economy, and R&D capabilities improved, East Africa prioritized the deployment of several key industrial fields in the central region, including electricity, automobiles, railways, etc., and then barely achieved the same level of industrial levels in the central and eastern regions.
However, compared with the eastern coastal region, the overall strength of the East African inland is still weaker. After all, the current technology center of the world is in Europe, and the eastern coastal area can more conveniently connect to the world market.
Therefore, coastal cities such as Dar es Salaam city and Mombasa city can dominate the cities in East Africa. You must know that East Africa is the result of East African government's biased policy and its policy priority towards inland areas.
"My country's inland areas are currently developing at a good level and have become competitive with the eastern coastal areas. However, except for the central and eastern regions, the economic development of other regions in the country is seriously lagging behind, especially the northern regions that were included in our territory earlier."
"Now as the economic cooperation between East Africa and Abyssinian Empire deepens, we should deploy a group of industries close to the Abyssinian Empire to reduce production costs and achieve further optimization of the industry."
Although there are a large number of backward industries in East Africa, these industries are relatively advanced in backward areas, especially in remote areas of East Africa.
The northern part of East Africa is not a small place. It mainly includes five major areas: Azande Plateau, Nile River upper basin, Ethiopian Highlands, Lake Turkana coastal plain, and Somalia plain. The overall population size has reached more than 10 million.
Although it is far from the central and eastern regions, from a national perspective, it has an advantage over the south and west for the time being. Therefore, the focus of the transfer of backward industries this time is the northern region.
Of course, there is another consideration in moving these backward industries to the north, and that is to be close to the regional market. In the land economy, East Africa itself occupies the central and southern African continent except for Cape Town. Therefore, the land's external economy is mainly West Africa in the northwest and North Africa across Sahara Desert.
After these old equipment introduced in the 1970s are moved to the north, they can continue to shine and complete their final care tasks. As for the end, they will be completely eliminated.
Moreover, the migration of equipment to the north is much easier now than it was in the 1970s and 1980s. With the construction and popularization of roads in East African railway, the traffic conditions in East Africa today are not a little better than those more than ten years ago.
In the past, when East African industries migrated inland, industrial equipment relied on human and animal power to complete the work, which was much more difficult than it is now.
"The north, especially the northwest region, is my country's bridgehead to connect with West Africa. With the development of Sigmaringen Royal Territory, Belgian Congo, and German Cameroon, the northwest will be an important part of East Africa's foreign trade in the future."
"The central and eastern regions must further optimize their industries, especially in the fields of railways, steel, electricity, automobiles, and equipment manufacturing, expand the advantages of emerging industries, and improve the production efficiency of traditional industries. In the field of traditional industries, the goal of central and eastern East Africa in the future is to catch up with European United States countries."
As for the west, East Africa's positioning of the west, especially the coast, has a relatively high starting point. Regions such as Luanda, Cabinda, Benguela, etc. all target Dar es Salaam and Mombasa. Therefore, in addition to developing traditional industries, they will also focus on developing emerging industries.
It is the same as the original development strategy of East Africa in the central region. After all, East African eastern coast is anchored in the Asian and European markets, the inland areas are anchored in the national market, and the western region will be anchored in the European and American (mainly Latin America) markets in the future.
Countries like Argentina and Brazil are both countries with good purchasing power and are important markets that cannot be ignored, especially the current Argentina. A large number of agricultural products are exported to Europe, and the per capita living standards are catching up with developed countries and regions. The East African and western routes are directly connected to South America, so there are geographical advantages.
Furthermore, Latin America is rich in various natural resources, which can facilitate the purchase of raw materials for coastal cities in the west of East Africa, and the resource endowment of the west itself is not bad.
In the previous life, Angola was one of the resource-rich countries in Africa, especially the richest in oil resources. In addition, it was close to the industrial zone in central East Africa, so it met all the requirements for industrial development.
With the construction of two main railway lines, it will inevitably be connected with central and eastern areas in the future and become the main industrial distribution area in East Africa.
Therefore, East Africa attaches far greater importance to the west, especially Angola, than the north. In the final analysis, backward industries are the leftover soup in East Africa. The eastern region can only eat the leftovers. However, East Africa's arrangements for Angola are obviously not like this.
In addition to the above areas, only the southern region has no detailed planning. East Africa is not active in developing the southern region. One reason is that the southern region only has the British Cape Colony. The relationship between the two sides is poor, natural trade exchanges are infrequent, and it serves as a buffer zone.
Although northern East Africa also borders the United Kingdom, Egypt, including Sudan region, has extremely poor traffic conditions. As for British Somaliland, it is too small to pose a threat to East Africa.