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  Chapter 729 Economic Differences

Nowadays, in the entire Mozambique region, there are three important industrial-based cities, one is the central commercial city Seoul City, which is mainly made of cotton textile industry and supplemented by the trade of dried fruits. The total population of the town is 490,000, which is the largest city deservedly. .

  One is Qiquwan City, a comprehensive heavy-industrial city built with abundant iron ore, coal, aluminum ore, and tin ore resources in mountainous areas, with a total urban population of 466,000, making it the second largest city in the region.

Qiquwan City has iron and steel plants, inland watercraft shipyards, special metal smelters, farm tools factories, various leather processing plants and handicraft workshops. The industrial category is small and complete, and it supplies most of the steel and leather products in Mozambique. Railroad tracks, steel plates for ships and construction, and steel bars produced by the factory have become important materials to support the construction of Mozambique.

The last one is the city of Malawi. The city is located at the starting point of the Lake Malawi Railway. Qiquwan City is more than a hundred kilometers south through the mountainous area. The two cities are connected by rail and the transportation is very developed. Important hub location.

  Malawi faces a vast pastoral area and has the only large woolen mill in Mozambique. It has rich lake fishery resources and a developed food processing industry. It is a light industrial city dominated by textile and agricultural products processing, with an urban population of 372,000.

It is the most populous and economically developed city among the 12 cities around Lake Malawi. It is also the capital of Malawi State. There are temples in the city, many road visitors, cultural education and medical services, and it is one of the administrative centers in the northern region. one.

  Overview of the entire Mozambique region

The 36 cities and towns initially proposed by the African Chief Executive Officer are now quite large. 12 of them are located in the most economically developed state of Malawi. The most dazzling ones are Qiquwan City and Malawi City, which have been developed. Become the second and third largest city in Mozambique.

  Most other cities and towns are dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, and the urban population varies from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands.

Besides

With the deepening of African colonization and the continuous extension of railways and highways, new towns have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain. There are hundreds of large and small, like stars lighting up galaxies, blooming everywhere in the fertile and fertile land of Mozambique. Bear fruitful results.

  For many years, more than 90% of the energy of the African chief executives has been concentrated on the economic development of the Mozambique region. The mileage of newly built highways has reached 110,000 kilometers, of which about 103,400 kilometers of sand and gravel roads and more than 6,900 kilometers of asphalt pavement.

The newly-built railway has a mileage of 3,760 kilometers and a total of 4,100 kilometers of inland navigation. More than 1,700 inland vessels of various types (displacement ranging from 60 tons to 500 tons, only limited to inland navigation), and more than 270 fishing vessels (mainly located in Malaysia) have been developed in the region. In Lake Ravi, all of them are small and medium-sized fishing boats of less than 200 tons), the transportation industry has been greatly developed, and the geographical advantages of the east, west, north and south are connected, and the effective allocation of resources is realized.

Take cotton, an important cash crop as an example. In the important cotton producing areas of the western and northwestern states, a large amount of cotton produced is manually picked and sent to the local cotton ginning plant. The single weight is 220-230 pounds. The square cotton bales are then transported to the local train station, and transported to Seoul City, the center of the cotton textile industry by railway lines, where they are spun into cotton yarn, then woven into cloth, and finally made into various clothes through printing and dyeing, garment making and other processes. And textiles are sold on ships at home and abroad.

  Ten years

  More than 700 new bridges have been built, and the backbone embankment of the Zambezi River has been built for more than 1,300 kilometers. The top of the embankment is the spacious and flat Zambezi Avenue, which extends from the eastern coast to the central Manica Plateau, unimpeded all the way.

The construction of backbone roads such as Zambezi Avenue, Central Avenue, South Avenue and Malawi Avenue, together with the branch roads that have been built for many years, greatly facilitates inter-regional transportation and logistics, and plays a role in promoting regional economic development. Played an important role.

  For many years, medical, education and health services in Mozambique have emerged from nothing. Thanks to the strong support from Australia, many medical staff have been sent to Africa to build and improve local hospitals and schools bit by bit.

  Today

  There are 44 hospitals of various sizes in Mozambique. Basically, every major city has one hospital and hundreds of Chinese medicine clinics, covering all cities and towns with a population of more than 1,000.

  A total of 1.81 million children aged 0-9 in this area present a clear pyramid structure. The younger the age, the larger the number, showing a geometric exponential expansion trend.

  Now children over 7 years old have reached school age.

  Therefore, school education in various cities is booming. Public schools and private schools are constantly emerging. Most of the teaching staff comes from Australian support. After all, this is not a long-term solution.

   Therefore, with government funding, Seoul Institute of Education is under preparation. It is expected that students will be recruited next year, so that local teachers in Mozambique can be trained on the spot.

  Seoul Medical College, the preparation plan for the College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry has been placed on the government’s agenda, and funds will be allocated for construction in the next few years to form a complete local education system.

  As of 1896, the end of July

Immigration to the island of Madagascar has just started. In the early stage, it was thousands of people per year. With the addition of the two towns operated by the African Expeditionary Force on the island for many years, the total number of Chinese immigrants was about 20,000 to 30,000. Not scaled.

  The most surprising thing is Somalia, which is an area where the chief executives of Africa have basically done little, and have not invested any resources, and have developed a surprisingly dazzling area.

  Statistical data display;

  The state’s per capita income level is comparable to or even higher than that of Australia’s most developed metropolis. In 1895, the average annual income level reached 233 silver dollars, equivalent to 11 pounds and 13 shillings, which is still growing at a rapid rate of 17% per year.

  Somali State is also an area where there is no serious contradiction between the male and female ratios in the entire Ocean Kingdom. The per capita has 1.347 wives. If the new immigrants are deducted every year, about 30% of the men in Somalia have more than two wives.

This region is also the state with the highest proportion of newborns. Among the total population of 1.376 million (excluding black indigenous people), there are as many as 276,000 children aged 0 to 5, and the total number of children under 10 years old is close to 390,000. This is quite an alarming one. Proportion.

  Somali's per capita annual income is as high as 11 pounds and 13 shillings. If you take into account the abnormally high proportion of children under the age of 10 in the region, the per capita income level is lowered, and there is also a large amount of gray income, and the real income level is higher.

  Compared with public data only, it is approximately three times the annual per capita income of the states of Mozambique, which is also the bottom of the annual per capita income of the Ocean Kingdom.

There are two main reasons for the low per capita income in Mozambique. One is that the development time is short and the accumulation is small. In recent years, new immigrants are still in the process of repaying immigration loans. In the early stage of building houses and reclaiming land, they can spend less on living and consumption. .

  Therefore, on the other hand, it has affected the overall market prosperity, and it takes time. This is not anxious.

  The second factor is that the Mozambique region is dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry as a whole, with less industrial and mining components. In addition, neighboring African countries are extremely poor and the market is almost zero, thus affecting the overall economic development.

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