The Chinese government dares to declare that China has basically achieved food and clothing, which means that China has not only greatly increased its grain production, but also made remarkable achievements in the first item of clothing, food, housing and transportation......

If you want to solve the problem of "clothing", you must first have enough raw materials, and at the beginning of the twentieth century, when synthetic fiber was still a cutting-edge technology and it was difficult to break through in a short time, cotton was always the most important one. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Cotton is drought-tolerant, salinity-tolerant, and light-loving, so the government has vigorously promoted it in the water-scarce north and salinized areas, and even reduced the area for growing grain. At the same time, the Chinese government has also vigorously introduced excellent cotton varieties from abroad, which has improved the yield and quality of cotton per mu, among which the long-staple cotton introduced in Shannan Province (southern Xinjiang) is widely praised. After several years of hard work, we can finally barely meet the needs of the country, with this foundation, a small amount of imports are not afraid of people stuck in our necks.

The second is wool, due to the large area of land returned to grazing, China's grassland area has increased a lot, and the increase is also high-yield grassland, coupled with the effect of introduction and improvement and the rapid progress of grassland pastoral production methods, in 1905 China's total wool output has jumped to the third place in the world compared with the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the quality has also been significantly improved.

It's just that China has too many people after all, and it is impossible to use all the pastures for raising sheep, so it is impossible for wool to be completely self-sufficient, and this problem can only be solved by importing. Fortunately, it is much safer to increase the import of wool than to increase the import of such strategic materials as steel and grain.

The government of the Republic of China actively encourages sheep breeding, on the contrary, goat breeding is strictly restricted, because goats have the habit of eating grass roots, in areas where water is scarce and windy can easily cause desertification, the central government has a special legislation to strictly prohibit breeding, and even for this reason all the pastures in these areas are nationalized, and some of them are simply designated as nature reserves to protect endangered animals such as saiga and Mongolian wild ass.

As a result, China's goat breeding is limited to the rainy areas in the south, mainly scattered domestic, and the production of cashmere is naturally extremely limited, and there is no international competitiveness at all. With the continuous improvement of the living standards of the Chinese people, cashmere soon changed from export to import, and later became the world's largest cashmere importer, which is really expensive.

But Li Hui does not regret it, compared to the small economic profits (from the perspective of the whole country, he does have the confidence to say so. The fragile ecology of the northern desert steppe is undoubtedly more important, and once the grassland is completely desertified, even if it costs dozens of times more in the future, it may not be able to re-green it! Because once the water cycle in the inland areas is disrupted, the climate will only become more and more extreme, and there is little chance of recovery!

The continuous shrinkage of silkworm farming is more out of food security and diplomatic considerations, China's traditional silkworm farming areas are also suitable for growing rice in the land of fish and rice, China's food security is not completely reassuring in the current situation, this is inevitably a bit too extravagant, people will starve to death without food, no silk to wear, but there are alternatives.

On the other hand, in order to make the leash leash on Japan's body stronger, Li Hui not only wants to make them lose the possibility of independence, but also has to give them some way out. In contrast, Li Hui would rather the Japanese grow mulberry and silkworms than hope that they would be self-sufficient in food. What's more, Japan's raw silk has surpassed China in terms of quality and output, becoming the world's largest exporter of raw silk, which can be regarded as taking advantage of the trend.

However, even if Li Hui's subordinates are merciful, the Japanese raw silk industry is still very sad in recent years, because the production of high-quality and cheap rayon has begun to grow rapidly, because the French company has seized the opportunity, Li Hui is no longer hidden, and ordered the establishment of three chemical fiber factories to participate in international competition. The planned economy has a huge advantage in the production of semi-finished bulk industrial products, and the technology obtained from the system is equivalent to the world's advanced level at the end of World War I, including production management (the two key system technologies of the Taylor system and the Ford system have been studied), and the labor productivity is so high that it can easily defeat similar products in the West, and Japan's raw silk has also suffered from the fish in the pond......

Although the quality of rayon is not as good as silk, it is better than the low price, and even the relatively wealthy Western people generally cannot afford to wear silk clothes, as soon as it is put into the market, it has rapidly improved the quality of life of the domestic people. But in this way, those inferior silks naturally lost their market, and the Japanese silk industry was suddenly in mourning.

In the face of such severe challenges, the Japanese had no choice but to improve the quality of raw silk while coming to China to buy rayon technology. It's just that both paths will take a long time to see results, and even if the Chinese government agrees to transfer technology, it will not be free, and the Japanese silk industry can still afford to live a hard life!

Li Hui doesn't care about this, he will only give hope to the Japanese, so that they are willing to be little brothers with longing, as for the current days, Li Hui doesn't want them to have a good time, because living too well will affect the enthusiasm of the Japanese to work in China......

In addition to the main fiber raw materials such as cotton wool, the output of other raw materials such as hemp, down, camel hair, rabbit hair and so on has also increased to a certain extent, but these relatively scattered industries are not the focus of national investment, and the domestic market economy has not been fully developed for the time being, so the growth rate is relatively much smaller.

For similar reasons, the domestic textile industry is still ruled by state-owned enterprises for the time being, although because of the power of scale effect and more advanced technology and management level, only the textiles produced by the three major textile factories have made China's textile industry leap to the top five in the world, but because of the chronic disease of the planned economy, there are too few varieties and styles, if it is not for the price is really cheap, the current Chinese are generally still more traditional, do not chase the trend much, the life of the three major textile factories will not be good.

But in any case, at least the output is there, which is the first goal that must be achieved for a big country like China. It is precisely because of the massive cheap textiles produced by the three major state-owned textile factories that the Chinese people finally no longer worry about wearing warmth, and the embarrassing embarrassment of many poor people wearing a pair of pants with their families and women not being able to go out before liberation is gone! (To be continued.) )