Chapter 495: China Heavy Industry (Part II)
However, this is almost the last climax of China's railway industry, considering that with the gradual maturity of automobile technology, road traffic will usher in a period of rapid development in a few years at most, and gradually share part of the transportation tasks of the previous railway, if the railway is too dense it is a waste of resources. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Speaking of automobiles, although the automobile industry is not yet valued by Li Hui for the time being, because of the terrifying infrastructure requirements, China can rank among the top few in the world in terms of the total number of automobiles just by relying on various engineering vehicles and various military special models; As for the tractors with huge agricultural uses, with the successful development of walk-behind tractors suitable for paddy fields in the south, the output has begun to grow rapidly, and the number of large tracked tractors has also increased greatly due to the strong demand from a large number of state farms in the Great Northern Wilderness, Xianbeilia, Central Asia and North America, and also ranks first in the world.
In addition, Li Hui's expectation ten years ago that "every household in China should have at least one bicycle" has now become a reality, and the terrifying production of more than 50 million units per year can only be consumed by a super large country like China. The number of pedal tricycles, which have also increased to more than 10 million, has played a huge role in short-distance freight and even passenger transportation, to a large extent to make up for the shortcomings of China's automobile industry, and is more suitable for the national conditions of China's cities are still generally crowded.
And because since the founding of the People's Republic of China has been attaching great importance to the achievements of the Chinese Republic in terms of water transportation, even ignoring those pure military ports that are not open to civilian ships, China now has more than ten world-class seaports, each of which can accommodate 50,000 tons of giant ships and more than 100,000 tons of giant ships, even the British Empire, which has always focused on the sea, can not compare.
In terms of inland shipping, China has made great achievements that can be called miracles, the "golden waterway" in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is getting busier and busier, not to mention, it is almost no different from shipping, the key is that the southern canal network has now been basically formed, the total amount of transportation in 1910 is so large that it can almost be compared with the total capacity of the national railway, and the freight cost is only a fraction of the railway. The development of river transportation, coupled with the advantage of being close to the sea, has made the economy of the south, especially the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, grow by leaps and bounds, and Shanghai has gradually widened the gap with the heavy industrial cities in the north such as the Tangshan Industrial Zone, which are key investments of the state, and has become the undisputed leader of China's economy......
In 1910, China's shipbuilding tonnage exceeded 4 million tons, which is almost equivalent to the sum of Britain (including colonies), the United States and Germany.
It is worth mentioning that now China's shipyards have not only produced civilian ships and light ships, but even the production of cruisers, and now they are also entrusted to the three major naval shipyards in China, even in 1910, Li Hui just used the system to produce 8 heavy cruisers delivered to the navy "Famous General" class, and the construction of the second batch was also handed over to the three major naval shipyards, which is of course Li Hui began to deliberately reduce his dependence on the system, It also shows that the three major naval shipyards already have the ability to build such large warships with the world's leading level. Li Hui believes that it will not be long before China is able to compete with the West in terms of speed of building ships, even if the system fails......
Unlike China's steel industry, which only became the world's largest in 1910, Huaxia has long been the world's largest producer of cement, coal and fertilizer, but even so, these three industries have not developed at a faster pace than the steel industry, and in these years, China has unwittingly left the Western powers further and further away. Especially fertilizers, in 1910 China's total fertilizer production reached 12.59 million tons, what is the concept of this number? You know, in history, in 1950, the world's total fertilizer production only reached more than 14 million tons, and now it is only 1910, a full 40 years in between!
With the rapid expansion of the territory and the continuous advancement of reclamation work, the total area of cultivated land in China has increased to more than 3 billion mu, even with a minimum of 30 kilograms of chemical fertilizer per mu (including nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers and trace element fertilizers that have now begun to be valued in China), the total demand is as much as more than 18 million tons!
It no longer matters that fertilizer plants can switch to explosives, because no matter how big a war is, it doesn't need so much explosives, but fertilizer production is still of undoubted strategic importance for China. Because the application of chemical fertilizers is the fastest way to increase agricultural production, and as the so-called "no agriculture is unstable", agricultural production, especially food production, can only be maintained in the country, for a behemoth like China, which has a larger population than the whole of Europe, stability is important, as long as you are not an idiot, you can understand.
After more than 10 years of development, the effects of water conservancy construction on China's farmland have become increasingly apparent, and with the completion of the construction of some large-scale water conservancy facilities, the threat of floods and droughts to China's agricultural production has been greatly reduced, and grain production can no longer see the situation of frequent ups and downs in the pre-Qing Dynasty.
And even if it is the same bumper year, the current yield per mu is far from comparable to the previous years, the sustained rapid growth of fertilizer production, so that the first generation of improved varieties cultivated by agricultural science and technology workers have produced an immediate increase in yield, even if the smallest increase in rice, now the yield is generally more than 400 kilograms, the highest yield in the northeast and around the Taihu Lake can even reach five or six hundred kilograms, and the high-yield effect of sweet potatoes and potatoes is generally able to reach five or six thousand catties, which was unimaginable before.
In addition, China's cultivated land area has further increased to more than 3 billion mu, the base is far from being comparable in the past, and there are a large number of paddy fields located in the tropics that can be cultivated three times a year, so that China's total grain output continues to soar. In 1910, China's total grain production had reached more than 580 million tons, which not only exceeded the total production of the whole of Europe, but also could not be compared even if the United States and Canada were included!