Chapter 136 Demographic Crisis

South China now has a population of 11 million, but more than 2 million young adults live in other parts of Southeast Asia. From the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean to Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh in the west, there are traces of South China Chinese.

Especially on the island of Java and the Spice Islands, as well as in the Malay Peninsula, many families have very large industries there, and there are also countless escorts where to protect Chinese assets.

In the case of Speaker Cai Lao, he has four plantations totaling 180 square kilometers on the island of Java, where the annual output of rubber and sugar is in short supply, bringing huge profits.

Although the Javanese were now at war with the Dutch, and even with the Chinese, most of the Javanese still served the Chinese as they had done before.

Whether they are in power, they have nothing to do with them who can't read a single word and don't know a single word of the lower class, they have relied on the Chinese for food since ancient times, and they still do.

Of course, if the Chinese really decline, most of them will not hesitate to bite a piece of meat on the Chinese.

The entire East Indies have been the law of the jungle since ancient times. For the past few hundred years, the Dutch were first-class and controlled the entire power.

The Chinese and the Indian Ocean were the comprador class, and the Dutch governed the lowest natives through the Chinese and Indians.

India's racial system can be said to be the best management of people, but the Chinese are different, and they are far better at managing money than Indians.

Therefore, when the Chinese develop to a certain extent, threatening the rule of the Dutch, or when the people's grievances are too deep, the Dutch will cut the wool.

Now that the Dutch had lost their former domineering, they had to change their previous policy in the East Indies. The purpose of supporting other regimes was to continue to share in the dividends of the development of the East Indies.

Although the founding of Nanhua inspired the hearts of all Chinese and made them willing to become citizens of Nanhua, few people were able to make them give up their property in other regions.

Those factories are a little better, the big deal is to change places and continue to produce, but those planting farms can't be moved.

Sugar, tobacco, rubber, these are the cash crops of the East Indies, which can bring huge returns to the Chinese people every year, and when the situation does not reach that point, no one is willing to work in those places.

This has resulted in a very uncoordinated and unreasonable proportion of the population in South China. At present, there are more than 8 million people living in South China, and about 6 million Chinese.

Among the Chinese, one-third of them are young people and children under the age of 20, and the remaining two-thirds are women, and there are only more than one million young and middle-aged men.

There are also a large number of young adults who have entered the army, and Nanhua is not at ease at this time, nothing is as important as the strength of the army.

Without a strong army, let alone protecting the property of overseas Chinese, even South China is not safe.

The only thing to be thankful for is that there are very few elderly people living in Nanhua, because these old people basically stay in other countries to take care of their family property.

As for the indigenous people living in South China, less than 300,000 are aborigines, and the rest are all indigenous people who serve the Chinese.

Most of these natives are family members who have served the Chinese for generations, and without their masters, they can't even live independently.

This is mostly the result of moving and streamlining a lot of maids. Before World War II, a Chinese family had an average of three Aboriginal households.

Because of the stuck threshold of indigenous immigration, only indigenous people who understand Chinese and have assimilated to the same level can immigrate to South China. As a result, those Chinese housewives living in Nanhua now complain every day that there is no maid at home, which is too inconvenient.

There are too few young and middle-aged people, and it is difficult to even recruit workers in factories, let alone those who have farmland.

Among other things, more than 3 million young people need to continue their education, and the number of teachers needed is a huge number, and this cannot be delayed.

No one farmed the land, but the Chinese had money and could buy food. When a child's education is interrupted, it affects a lifetime.

Although the siphon effect of the economy will automatically attract teachers from other regions to come to Nanhua, this speed is too slow and far from meeting the demand.

As a result, many teenagers over the age of 16 who have received basic education are arranged to work in factories as long as they have the resources.

However, this is just a drink to quench thirst, and if the education problem is not solved sooner, it will affect an entire generation of Nanhua people, and it will also affect the international competitiveness of Nanhua in the next 20 years.

Today, primary and secondary schools are the first to be built in every city, and kindergartens have been formed in every temporary community.

At the same time, Nanhua has also increased recruitment in Thailand, Malaysia and other places, as long as you understand Chinese and are willing to engage in education, regardless of gender, old and young, the treatment is preferential.

In addition to this, the government has organized all literate housewives and is not allowed to be housewives at home unless there are babies to take care of.

Some of them have become teachers, and some of them have entered factories or government departments, and they are not allowed to waste human resources anyway.

This can meet the needs of education and industrial development, but agriculture ...... It's true that no one is going to do it.

So from the very beginning, Nanhua fell into a serious demographic crisis.

Many legislators have proposed to ease the immigration needs of other ethnic groups, but this can only meet temporary needs and is not conducive to long-term development.

In fact, everyone also knows that there are too many ethnic minorities, which will affect the dominant status of the Chinese, so there are not many people who support this proposal.

Zhou Nan resolutely opposed this proposal and asked Hu Xijiang and others to recruit people from China. Whether it is an intellectual, a worker, or even a peasant, there is as much as you want.

The civil war was in full swing, and both sides did not mind this policy of Nanhua, and both sides even took the initiative to arrange for many peasants who could not eat to come to Nanhua.

After the plan was unanimously agreed by both sides of the civil war, and the willingness to open the five ports in the south and north, Zhou Nan was finally freed from the tedious meetings.

According to the plan, Nanhua will arrange no less than 20 ships to travel between the mainland and Nanhua, and it is planned to resettle between one million and two million people, mainly in family units.

Zhou Nan didn't want to be young and middle-aged now, and he would have to worry about marrying a wife for them in the future.

With these new immigrants, at least for the time being, there is no need to worry about labor. As for how to increase the productivity of these people in the future, that is something that the government should worry about.

Zhou Nan is not the only one who is busy, in fact, as long as he is tired every day, people will not be tired.

But Audrey is much harder than Zhou Nan, and she has been tired for half a month.

The release of "The Diary of Anne Frank" made her a real big star, and she also became the most popular foreigner in South China.

Every day, she performs with the art troupe everywhere, and at night she has to deal with the affairs of Hebben's local clothing company.

Givenchy never imagined that he had just gained a little fame in the fashion industry, and what made him a world-class designer was not a series of trendy clothes he designed for Audrey, but a national costume designed for Nanhua.

The appearance of Chinese costumes immediately aroused the strong retro and patriotic feelings of all Chinese.

The company was originally only planning to open a clothing store in Pontianak as a contact point to coordinate the procurement of various fabrics before officially entering the Chinese clothing market in South China.

However, on January 2nd, the store was packed. There was also a sixteen-year-old girl in the middle who was seriously injured because there were too many people, and was sent to the hospital, and she was almost not rescued.

Later, the store did not dare to open, but the people who wanted to buy Chinese clothes still did not follow, according to the statistics of the radio station, now there must be at least one million sets of Chinese clothes to meet the demand temporarily.

In the long run, a person needs at least two sets, that is, more than 20 million sets.

Givenchy was stunned in surprise, not to mention 20 million sets a year, it is 10 million sets, which is also an extremely terrifying number.

This set of gorgeous clothes is not cheap, even if it is not embroidered, because it is made of silk and satin, the price of a set is 30 dollars, which is not 300 million dollars a year, or even higher!

Counting on Heben will definitely not be able to meet the needs of the market, so during this time, whether it is Renian, or Held, Mrs. Hemstra, and Audrey, they are busy negotiating with local Chinese businessmen to license production.

It is worth mentioning that Nanhua is a commercial country, and businessmen govern the country. Therefore, we attach great importance to copyright and patents. Nanhua almost copied the Dutch patent law and put an end to the proliferation of counterfeiting.

There are too many merchant families in Nanhua, and half of the people in the whole country are businessmen. Among all the factories, the garment factory is also the largest because of the low threshold and low technical content.

Held: They selected more than 20 factories and authorized them to produce Chinese clothes. During this time alone, the amount of contracts signed is already astronomical.

And Hebben, just by providing some pattern makers, plus Givenchy, the designer, can get more than three million US dollars in licensing money.

Although the money will not be available until the clothing is sold, the deposit paid by each company is also 50,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to Hepburn Fashion's revenue of one million without doing anything.

So, not to mention how much Givenchy has been so angry recently, the Hepburn brand's annual sales are about to exceed 100 million US dollars, which is probably something that no clothing company can do.

Not to mention Dior and Balmain, even the old Burberry and Chanel are not enough to see now!

Volkswagen has also selected a piece of hard rock land within three kilometers of the coast of Temaju Island between Pontianak and Yamaguchiyang, covering an area of nearly five square kilometers.

There are no swamps, but the ground is a volcanic rock that is hundreds of millions of years old, and except for a few trees, it cannot be used as farmland at all.

The plant is located four kilometers from Temaju Island and will be built with a dedicated railway. In the future, imported parts and produced cars will be exported to various countries through Temaju Island.

After the fifteenth, Zhou Nan could receive a telegram urging him to go back every day, and he had to go home.