While the East China Autonomous Government is busy exporting goods, it is also busy building internal infrastructure, especially transportation and electricity.

Most of the rural areas of the seven provinces of East China Autonomous Region have built biogas digesters, and the completion of biogas digesters has solved the problem of electricity consumption in rural areas to a large extent.

Basically, these rural areas are self-sufficient in electricity, and some of them can be exported. Rural villages in all provinces began to pull up wires and light electric lights.

Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Anhui provinces have also entered the planning and construction stage, of which Fujian has built the most hydropower stations, more than 6,000 small hydropower stations have been repaired, 16 medium-sized hydropower stations have been repaired, and the hydropower generation capacity ranks first among all provinces in East China.

The hydropower stations built by the East China Electric Power Company have a characteristic, that is, they rarely build power stations on the main rivers, but build small and medium-sized power stations in places where the upstream water flow is turbulent, and those small and medium-sized hydropower stations have small investment and short construction periods, and their benefits are much higher than those of large hydropower stations.

Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces have also built a lot of hydropower stations, and the potential of small and medium-sized hydropower stations has been almost exhausted, and in this case, hydropower construction has mainly been transferred to Guangdong and Anhui provinces.

If we say that small hydropower resources are the most abundant, they are naturally Lianghu, Liangguang, Henan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Xinjiang and Tibet. These 13 provinces and regions account for about 90% of the country's developable small hydropower resources.

China's largest power generation base, but also belongs to the Jinsha River basin, the annual power generation can reach more than 260 billion kilowatt hours, but the current hydropower in East China is mainly supported by medium-sized hydropower stations, large-scale investment cycle is relatively large, temporarily not considered, and the construction of large hydropower stations on the main river will bring a series of negative consequences.

For example, the Sanmenxia Hydropower Station on the Yellow River and the Three Gorges Hydropower Station on the Yangtze River in later generations are all relatively idiotic things, the former is to control the sand, but the sand is not cured, and a large amount of money is required to desilt every year.

As for the Three Gorges, in terms of economic benefits alone, it is better to build medium-sized hydropower stations in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, and the economic returns are much better than those of the Three Gorges. After the completion of the Three Gorges, the transportation cost of the Yangtze River waterway has increased, and the annual dredging has to be carried out, which has hindered Jiangsu's land reclamation of 100,000 mu every year. What if the war starts and such a big target as the Three Gorges is bombed?

Anyway, it's a series of 102b phenomena.

In addition to building hydropower stations in the seven provinces of East China, the East China Electric Power Company has also begun to visit Hubei and Hunan provinces and began to inspect the hydropower resources of the two provinces.

The vigorous development of hydropower has greatly supplemented the energy required for industrial development, but the industrial growth rate is very fast, and the growth of residential electricity consumption is also relatively fast, so hydropower is still insufficient.

The East China Electric Power Company has also developed thermal power, with two large thermal power plants in Jiangsu and one each in Anhui and Shanxi, which are not limited in size, as long as there is sufficient coal supply.

In terms of power generation, hydropower still accounts for 70%, thermal power accounts for only 20%, and biogas accounts for 10%.

With the current power generation is very sufficient, the East China Electric Power Company also supplies cheap electricity to the factories, which reduces the production costs for the factories.

Some factories also build their own hydropower stations, for example, some factories have small hydropower resources nearby, as long as you write an application, the above send someone to check the feasible surname, and do not find any negative consequences caused by the construction of hydropower stations, the enterprise can build the power station itself.

The construction of railways has also been accelerated, and because industrial development has suddenly entered a period of profiteering, national capital has increased rapidly, and there are more funds, so there will naturally be money in railways.

At present, China's railways have basically formed a framework.

The railway network within the seven provinces of East China Autonomous Region is being built, and each county is building railway branch lines, once the railway network is completed, the transportation within the seven provinces of East China Autonomous Region will be very convenient.

In addition to the seven autonomous provinces of East China, Jiangxi and Guangdong can be connected to Hubei, Hunan and Sichuan, while the Beijing-Pudong Railway can connect Jiangsu, Shandong and Hebei, and the Beijing-Feng Railway can connect to the Northeast.

The Longhai Railway can connect the seven autonomous provinces of East China to Henan.

The railway network within the seven provinces of East China Autonomous Region will definitely be built, and the railway to other provinces will be added to the Longhai Railway to extend the Longhai Railway to Shaanxi.

At the same time, the railway will be repaired in the direction of Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, so as to open up the transportation lines of these three provinces, so that the raw materials of these three provinces can be transported.

However, the main direction of railway construction in other provinces is Hunan, Hubei, and Sichuan provinces, which are the main areas of Han people's activities, and the railway branch lines of these three provinces can greatly drive the economy of these three provinces after they are perfected.

These three provinces are large agricultural provinces, but also large population provinces, and there are also a lot of minerals. Therefore, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan provinces are only building one trunk line, while Hunan, Hubei, and Sichuan provinces are overhauling branch lines, and it is expected that the railway branch lines in each county of these three provinces will be built within five years.

Shanxi will build a railway to Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.

After the completion of these railways, the seven autonomous provinces of East China and the provinces will be basically connected.

At the same time, roads, bridges, and water conservancy projects are being built everywhere, and the number of engineering teams has skyrocketed to hundreds, and the demand for workers has increased.

The demand for workers in industry has also increased greatly, and for a time, there was a sudden labor shortage in the seven autonomous provinces of East China.

To deal with the labor shortage, Xia Jun naturally has his own way.

First of all, Xia Jun issued a new minimum wage target, and the minimum wage for workers was increased from two yuan to three yuan. Second, it is necessary to increase the area of grain cultivation and squeeze out the cultivation of non-mechanized grain from the market, so as to absorb the agricultural population into the cities.

The minimum wage was raised, but the working hours were extended to nine hours, but the workers were cheered for a long time.

For those industrialists, it is a period of windfall profits, and it is acceptable to raise the minimum wage by one dollar, and after raising the minimum wage, the profit is still much higher than before.

In addition, the holiday is called overtime, and the salary is doubled.

Most of the factories can accept this, and now they can earn as much as they produce, and they still have enough profits when the wages of workers under overtime are paid.

The seven autonomous provinces of East China have become a big construction site and a big factory, people are busy doing things, and basically few people have too much time for entertainment, which is no different from wasting life.

If you work 2 days on the weekend, it is equivalent to working for 4 days, and the original work is only 5 days, which is equivalent to an extra income of 2.4 yuan, usually 9 hours of overtime a day, 3 hours of overtime, and the salary can be increased by 30%.

In other words, if a worker works hard in a month, he can get a salary of 7.2 yuan. If there are two laborers in the family, they can get a salary of at least 14.4 yuan.

An increase in the minimum wage means an increase in workers' wages, after all, there is a double system. However, it is currently a special stage, so overtime is no longer doubled, but holidays are doubled.

In this particular stage of profiteering, the longer the worker works, the more capital he earns. Although it is said that a lot of it goes into the pockets of capitalists, it is national capital.

As long as the political axe is properly regulated, social wealth can still be distributed relatively evenly.

The income of 7.2 yuan a month, which was unimaginable for workers before, is now alive in front of them, and the factory still lacks workers.

As long as you have a lot of strength, although you are a little tired to work on the construction site, the food is good after all, and you can get more work, and there is a time on the construction site.

The increase in workers' incomes also leads to an increase in domestic demand, but people are temporarily busy working and do not consume many times.

However, workers rarely keep the surplus money in their hands, some apply to buy affordable housing, and some use the money to buy bonds, which is now popular.

Workers basically don't need to spend too much money, their children don't need money to go to school, and medical treatment is only a small amount of money, and in terms of housing, it is very easy to buy a set of affordable housing with such an income.

In contrast, the wages of those skilled workers have not increased because their wages have exceeded the minimum wage, but because the number of factories has increased dramatically, skilled workers have become sought-after commodities and wages have increased.

When you have money, the first thing you think about is the house.

There are many workers who want to buy affordable housing, and the middle and upper income groups who want to buy better houses are also increasing, which in turn has boosted the development of the construction industry.

The demand for steel and cement is naturally soaring.

The development of these industries has led to an increase in employment, and the internal market is also growing rapidly step by step, while the external market is growing sharply.

However, the overall cultural level still restricts the development of China's economy, many technicians are in short supply, and technical schools have been crowded, and the supply is still in short supply.

In foreign countries, it is not easy to recruit skilled workers, because now the employment environment in neutral countries in the world is good, and no one wants to leave their jobs and go to China.

What's more, China is still at war!

In order to speed up the training of technicians, Xia Jun had to choose a new teaching mode - video teaching. Xia Jun bought a large number of video tapes and put them in technical schools to be screened to reduce the pressure on teachers.

The industry of the seven autonomous provinces of East China has already sat on a chariot of the times at this time, and is sprinting forward frantically, and the speed is absolutely fast.

Xia Jun has been laying out for nearly three years, and all obstacles have been basically cleared, but this overall cultural level cannot be made up for in a short period of time.

But there's nothing about it, take your time! There's plenty of time anyway.

In order to alleviate the problem of labor shortage, the East China Autonomous Government began to encourage people from other provinces to immigrate to the seven provinces of East China.

At this time, the more workers there are, the more things they produce, and the more money they make, and these people stay in other provinces, so they naturally cannot create more materials, but when they come to the seven autonomous provinces of East China, they can be organized to create more wealth.

In addition, the population has increased, and Xia Jun's point income has naturally increased.

(To be continued)