African Entrepreneurship Records

Chapter 670 Population Movement

 Mbeya City, No. 2 Secondary School.

 “Rod, where will you go after graduation?” Hagens asked.

 The graduation season is here in the blink of an eye, and students graduating from East African middle schools will also face employment problems. Of course, those with top grades can continue to stay in school, but these are only a very small number of people, and most still have to choose where to go.

"Who knows! But according to my grades and my family's arrangements, there is a high probability that I will inherit the blacksmith shop from my father, or go to a factory. As for farming, I don't know how!"

“Well, this is the benefit of mastering a craft. People like me will most likely have to go back to work on the farm in the village.”

"Haha, I'm actually only half-skilled. My father hasn't systematically taught me the craftsmanship of a blacksmith. After all, the blacksmith shop is dirty and tiring. I basically don't participate in work when I go home every day, so even if I inherit my father's business, I still have to do it." Learn from scratch, and this is also related to your grades. The better your grades, the more opportunities there are. The top students can study abroad, followed by those who can go to university in China, and those who are at the top of the school can also be assigned good jobs."

 “You mean I’m a scumbag!” Rhodes said resentfully.

"You are overthinking. My grades are not much higher than yours. Are we brothers? And the work in the blacksmith shop may not be much better than on the farm. Forging iron with a hammer is also a laborious job, and it is open all year round. The whole village's ironware maintenance But we can only rely on our family.”

“I don’t know where Keld will go? I heard that his father is planning to place him in a government agency!”

“It’s probably not an important position. There is a high probability that he will work as a junior police officer under his father. After all, officials now have academic requirements. If he takes the civil service examination, Kelder will definitely not be able to pass it.”

“The civil service examination is too difficult and the competition is too fierce. If I had good grades, I would also like to apply for it, but since I have no background and poor grades, it would be better to save some registration fees.”

In the social environment of East Africa, government employees are inevitably more popular, and this is mainly reflected in the middle and lower-level government employees.

 After all, once you reach an official position, you can live quite well in various countries, so it still depends on the treatment of grassroots personnel.

“It’s not bad to be a soldier, but the requirements of the navy are too high. Last year our school only recruited two people. I heard that the food in the navy is better than that in the army!”

"The army's food is already at the top level, and the navy's is just the icing on the cake, and it gives you access to more things. Of course, the navy also depends on where it is allocated. If it is a remote place like the Southern Ryukyu Islands or the Comoro Islands, how can it be done? Not very bad!”

“Haha, the army is even worse. If you are assigned to Southwest Africa or the Congo rainforest, it will be very torturous, and you will have to face quite a few threats.”

"That's better than ordinary people. After joining the army, the treatment will be the same. After retirement, you can also enjoy certain privileges and have a certain social status. This alone is enough. Moreover, the conditions in the army have improved a lot, and you can contact It’s good to learn a lot of new things and gain a lot of experience.”

 Factory construction has been relatively frequent in East Africa in recent years, so more and more graduates can enter factories to work. This also represents a direction of industrialization in East Africa, with people flowing towards industry.

In addition to students, the East African government has also moved some people working in the east to the west. This is also one of the basic national policies in East Africa.

 Population distribution across East Africa is uneven, especially in the western region, so population migration is very important, mostly based on job transfers. Mbeya City No. 1 Steel Plant

"This year our factory will send 15 people to work in Harare to support industrial development in the west. I still advise you to think more about it. The environment in Harare is no worse than Mbeya, and there will be many heavy industries in East Africa in the future. It will definitely be placed in Harare, because there are more resources in the west, so the prospects are much better than Mbeya." The director of the First Steel Plant mobilized.

However, there are very few responders, which is normal. Those who can work at the No. 1 Steel Plant in Mbeya City are raising their families in Mbeya City, and naturally they don’t want to go to other cities.

“The distance from Mbeya to Harare is not that far, it only takes a few days, and it’s by rail. Everything has been arranged there, and we’re just waiting for the workers to pack their bags and move in. Besides, what’s the future of Mbeya?” Steel production capacity will definitely decrease proportionally, but Harare City continues to rise, which also means more stability. Even if there is unemployment, there are now many more job opportunities in Matabele Province than in South Salzburg Province. After all, Matabele Province has more employment opportunities than South Salzburg Province. Tabele Province was the first industrial province in East Africa.”

Being a worker in an East African steel factory is not a one-and-done job. The last-place elimination system will regularly screen out a group of workers, so the factory director would say this.

"Director, you said this is just a waste of time. The Mbeya Steel Plant is pretty good, so why are you just thinking about sending people to the west?"

"Huh, what do you mean by messing around? This is the country's grand strategy. Don't feel wronged. In fact, not only our No. 1 Steel Plant, but also government agencies, schools, other factories, and even villages are asking to transport people to the western interior. .”

"The purpose of this is also obvious. The population in the west is too small, so much land and resources are not utilized, so the development of the west naturally requires support from the east, and the conditions in the west have been improving in recent years, especially in the Hohenzollern Province. , Swabia and Matabele Province, the basic conditions of these three provinces are no worse than those in the east, and Matabele Province even has the momentum to surpass the Central Province."

It is obvious that East Africa attaches great importance to Matabele Province, and this is also in line with the geographical location of Matabele Province. From Mbeya to the west, there are three central provinces, and this is the most resource-rich region in East Africa. One, so it can better connect the spillover industries and population in the east.

 The spillover industries and population in the east are naturally forced by the government, because according to the population level of East Africa, the eastern region is actually far from exceeding its actual carrying capacity.

After all, the eastern region has a land area of ​​more than two million square kilometers and a population of just over 20 million. Such a small population accounts for two-thirds of East Africa. The population density of the eastern region is nothing compared to the population density of European countries. carry.

“The national consideration is naturally to better develop our country, so it is inevitable to support the west, and the west is not a dragon’s den or a tiger’s den. There was a westward movement in the early years, but this slogan is no longer used in recent years.”

The westward movement was a product of East Africa ten years ago. At that time, the western provinces were the real wilderness. Now the results of the westward movement have long been reflected, including large-scale infrastructure projects such as the Central Railway, which have improved human settlements in the west. The environment has led to the great changes in the industry in East Africa now.

However, as time goes by, the westward movement has gradually lost its voice, but the policy has been steadily advancing. This is also related to the decline in the immigrant population in East Africa.

"It is easy to go to the west now, but it may not be easy to go in the future. Opportunities are for those who are prepared. There are definitely more opportunities in the west than in the east, so think more about your future. Anyone who wants to sign up can sign up with me tomorrow. If we don’t have everyone together in three days, then I can only assign them according to the old rules!”

 As a factory director, he still has relatively great power, but if his subordinates take the initiative, everyone will look good.

 (End of this chapter)