Programs that eliminate resource imbalances

When many projects and targets of the Third Five-Year Plan before the 15th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China were completed ahead of schedule, one problem that was finally discovered by the public was the serious uneven development caused by the serious uneven resource background of various regions. This imbalance is not very obvious in the agricultural era, the development of the east and west is not much different, the whole country is a few famous big cities to have relatively developed handicrafts and commercial activities, except for the whole country to support the power of Kaifeng and the southeast core of Yangzhou Jiankang and other regions, the other areas are basically self-sufficient rural and local ruling center as the main function of the city.

This problem came to the fore when the empire was rapidly industrializing. When the cities along the river and coastal areas with convenient transportation quickly realized the transformation and expansion of handicraft industry to factory industry due to low logistics costs and trade geographical advantages, the inland cities in the central and western regions or not on the edge of rivers and oceans were still in slow passive development.

In the southeast, for example, when a large number of commercial producers of raw silk, camellia, cotton, tea, sugar, and agricultural products around Taihu Lake began to move their workshops out of the city and set up new large-scale factories in the suburbs where land prices were low, Quzhou, which was only 200 kilometers away, did not have a single workshop or enterprise with more than 100 employees. Taking Sichuan as an example, Dazhou, which has natural gas fields, has established a complete set of industrial parks using natural gas as raw materials under the investment of the people, and the output value of chemical fertilizer, sulfuric acid, gas, electricity, methanol, formaldehyde, acetylene, dichloromethane, carbon tetrachloride, carbon disulfide, nitromethane, hydrocyanic acid and carbon black, as well as the extraction of helium, has long been as high as 2 billion yuan. In the neighboring county, Bazhong is rice that cannot be sold at a high price, except for a little tea and ginkgo, and the output value of the entire county is less than 2 billion a year.

The development of areas with mineral and oil and gas resources is particularly rapid. It's like riding a rocket, with an annual growth rate of more than 20%. Those land of fish and rice in the plain areas, which have long fed a large number of people by relying on rich agricultural resources, have easily liberated a large number of labor forces, and rapidly developed labor-intensive industries such as various cash crops, forestry and textiles, clothing, toys, leather, furniture, etc., relying on the rapid expansion of light industry and the development of mineral-based heavy chemical industry cities like a competition. The urban residents who left their relatives and friends in the mountainous areas who had similar living standards in the past were eight streets away, and deeply experienced the same sense of superiority and happiness as the urban residents in the era of reform.

The traversal is faced with a dualistic economic structure that is gradually taking shape, just like that of later generations. This deformed structure is the inevitable result of the development of the market economy, which is not subject to human will. In order to avoid the tragedy of the previous life, the traversal used a special move, that is, it is better to block than to sparse.

Instead of spending countless energy on the third-line construction and the large-scale development of the western region, it is better to pull out all the people in the ravines and collectively relocate to the newly industrialized cities where labor is extremely scarce.

Since the beginning of the Second Five-Year Plan, the company has been vigorously promoting overseas immigration on the original basis. The original number of immigrants who went to sea in the hundreds of thousands of years a year has expanded to millions. Compared with the vast first and second island chains with a land area of more than 10 million square kilometers and the Australian mainland, the growth of this kind of crowd is only from the intermittent to a continuous trickle, which can simply be ignored compared with the scale of the total passenger flow of more than 5 million people at the Shanghai port during only two months of summer vacation in the information society era.

This choice of optimizing the allocation of resources will accelerate the development of affluent regions. It will not lead to further poverty in the backward areas. The reason is simple, after the backward areas become no man's land, the primitive agriculture of slash-and-burn will disappear, and the manpower extracted from the region will flow to the more productive places. The smaller and smaller population of the area will receive more resources per capita. Accelerate the commercialization and marketization of the region. Terraced or low- and medium-yielding fields, which are unable to produce enough to feed the already overburdened fields no matter how much fertilizer or intensive cultivation is used, will all be nationalized and turned into closed mountains and forests. Immigrants who receive the money from the sale of land can be given priority to the numerous overseas territories that are in urgent need of labor development to enclose large amounts of land.

The prices of agricultural products will inevitably fall sharply with the massive increase in arable land per capita and the advancement of mechanization. This competition inevitably led to a decline in the living standards of landlords and yeoman farmers who held low- and medium-yielding land, and they naturally migrated to the newly developed areas in the south and north to consolidate their imperial rule.

The results of optimizing the allocation of labor resources are naturally pleasing to all. The empire did a good job in immigration, expanded the area of domination, promoted the movement of people, developed the market for capital and land circulation, strengthened grassroots rule, stabilized the situation in the frontier and newly conquered areas, reduced the transportation pressure and social cost of cross-regional movement of people (if the whole family emigrated, there was no need for the Spring Festival), expanded the supply of resources (the immigration destinations were all resource-rich wild lands or overseas territories, such as Sado Island with many gold mines and the newly conquered Chola Kingdom), and reduced the price of food and the cost of living of the people. The people who have been emigrated have also benefited. They have the opportunity to change their fate, they have access to large tracts of land and farmland, and they can have sufficient collateral to expand their capital (land mortgages are a prerequisite for buying agricultural machinery, fertilizers, and improved seeds, and sending their children to education and more opportunities).

The resulting demand for credit and the need for the degree of development of the capital market greatly stimulated the progress of the empire's financial sector, during the years when the emigration industry was at its most advanced. Industries such as Imperial Insurance and Mortgage are growing at a compound annual growth rate of more than 30%. In parallel with this, there are large orders for agricultural materials and building materials (the amount of materials required by immigrants is extremely large and complex, from agricultural machinery to iron nails) and cheap supply of industrial raw materials and primary products. This kind of effective demand is far more enormous, comprehensive, timely, and long-term than the market obtained by occupying a feudal country with a population of more than 100 million.

"People go to high places and water flows to low places", having said that, there are very few pioneers of the times who can overcome all kinds of perceptual obstacles and really take the initiative to respond to the country's call to go to the newly conquered areas to be pioneers and realize their dreams of making a fortune. No one in the world will go to sea to fight for their lives in the context of worry-free food and clothing, it is not a question of national courage and whether there is a leading subconscious, but the animal instinct that governs human behavior unconsciously avoids risks.

The vast majority of people who have crossed the ocean in search of wealth and opportunity will always be a small number of people, and those who were the first to eat crabs and explore uncharted territories and pioneers of colonization are definitely the elite of mankind, and they deserve to occupy a place in history books and textbooks. The vast majority of those migrants who have been uprooted from their homeland are poor people who have been forced overseas to find a way to survive due to war, famine, poverty and despair caused by the conflict between people and land. Even if they have laid a large foundation overseas with the help of self-reliance and hard work, it is difficult for their names to appear on the list of heroes who have taken the initiative to contribute to the nation.

The rule was established at the beginning of the empire that the people should take the initiative to take the initiative to take the initiative of the people to take the initiative to take the initiative of the Western explorers who could only travel by seeking the patronage of the king. Unlike the West, the Empire did not seek a route to the East and cheap access to spices and Oriental specialties, but explored the world in all directions, seeking honor and resources for the Empire, seeking status for itself and access to high society. The colonial era, which skipped the Age of Discovery, had a greater need for population, and the empire at this time was not like the dark dynasty of hundreds of millions of unproductive tenant farmers 700 years later, with almost infinite manpower; At this time, the empire had a population of less than 180 million, but it had to rule more than three times the territory of the Dark Dynasty and ten times the territorial waters, and the ecological pressure was much lighter than that of later generations.

After solving the land problem, the biggest problem of resource allocation is solved. Although there are also transfer payments, in order to prevent dissatisfaction and separation caused by the uneven development of overseas territories and the mainland, except for the vast Nanzhou mainland, all overseas territories have developed a comprehensive and rational industrial and commercial system, and each large governorate has its own five small industries (fertilizer, cement, steel, coal machinery), and there are no restrictions on trade between colonies and colonies. Unlike countries such as the brain-dead Spain, there are a large number of colonies that only dig for gold and monopolies. (To be continued......)