Xinjiang's climate and environment provide the best natural conditions for cotton planting, and the improved high-quality and high-yield cotton varieties have been widely promoted in Xinjiang, making it the largest cotton planting base in China, providing more than two-thirds of cotton raw materials for China's textile industry.

Construction of these two strategic border routes has not stopped since the opening of the war, and efforts have been made to provide greater transportation capacity by changing from single-track railways to double-track railways before the start of the war.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Communications and the Railway Construction Corporation, by 1911, 60,000 kilometers of railway lines will be built and opened to traffic. Lu Liang has an obsession, that is, more than the United States railway mileage, China is larger than the United States, the population is larger than the United States, and the economic level is also rapidly approaching this American country with the envy of the world, why can't it have more railways?

Walking slowly into the square, Roosevelt saw the first sculpture in the square, unlike ******** works of art, Lu Liang preferred realistic works of art, and he even hated similar impressionism, stream of consciousness paintings and sculptures, etc., and asked Chinese literary and art workers to take whether the audience likes it as the only criterion for measuring works of art, and the artist's lonely self-appreciation will be completely blocked, let him stay in his own home and appreciate it slowly.

For example, the sculpture in front of Roosevelt is a complete realistic work - ten fifteen-meter-high steel soldier dolls, reflecting the scene of the Northern Expedition, and even completely based on a battlefield photograph.

So much solid steel, just for a sculpture, that is, the United States and China, which have deep pockets, can afford. On more than one occasion, foreigners from Britain, France, and Germany who came to visit lamented, and even angry, that their countries were saving every bit of resources for the production of steel, and that they were precisely calculating the role of each ingot, for fear that the war machine would stop because of the lack of steel.

China and the United States are wasting a lot of steel, cement and other resources to compete for world leadership in the construction and transportation industries. Not far away, a German diplomat gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, Roosevelt felt that the diplomat had the intention of dismantling the sculpture and shipping it back to Germany, but unfortunately it was not the Manchu Qing Dynasty ten years ago, and China would never be taken by the foreign powers again.

By the end of 1909, China's annual steel production had reached 66 million tons, more than the United States, Germany, Britain, Tsarist Russia, France, and Japan combined. When Huaguo announced its steel production at the end of the year, it was questioned by the whole world, and in 1908, Huaguo's steel output was still about 30 million tons, although it surpassed that of the United States, but it was not against the sky. Today's data has a non-human feel to it, and no matter how much you think about it, you can't reach this number.

A set of data for the same period can show the gap between the steel production of various countries and China, the United States 31 million tons, Germany 14.7 million tons, the United Kingdom 8.5 million tons, Tsarist Russia 5.5 million tons, France 4.8 million tons, Japan 2.8 million tons (a slight increase over the real historical data). The impact of the rise of China on the world is multifaceted, the great powers have increased their investment in their own industries, the biggest changes are Russia and Japan, of which Russia is affected by oil wealth, and has enough funds to invest in steel production, Japan is the godson of the United States, massive aid has accelerated Japan's industrialization, and iron ore from Australia has given Japan a sufficient source of raw materials. (Australian mineral development will be explained later)

Despite this, the gap between countries and China is still very large, and public opinion is mostly skeptical of the data published by China, but governments know that this data is true, because the data released by China in the past has been confirmed to be accurate. So the spies had another task, that is, to find the secret of the explosion of Huaguo's steel production, and the increase in tasks caused the spies to become tired dogs, and at the same time, the Chinese counterintelligence department took the opportunity to dig up a large number of lurking enemies.

Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and a smart brain can always summarize a sentence that is acceptable, and this sentence is most appropriate here. People of this era could not have imagined that half a century later, the United States would be able to produce 100 million tons of steel, that at the beginning of the 21st century, a large steel plant in China would produce 100 million tons a year, and even 30 years later, in 1940, the United States would produce 60 million tons of steel.

The changes in production technology and production process, and the digestion of advanced technology, make Huaguo Iron and Steel Technology lead the world. The comprehensive energy consumption per ton of steel of large enterprises reaches 950 kg of standard coal, which means that Huaguo not only has the world's leading production capacity, but also the low cost of other steel tycoons, which is the fundamental reason why Huaguo can show the steel production that shocks the world.

All large and medium-sized iron and steel plants have adopted the advanced technology of steel base storage, tackled by the Academy of Sciences and applied to industrial production, coupled with tens of millions of industrial workers trained by China in the past ten years, rich iron ore resources in the Philippines, North Korea, Northeast China and other places, huge reserves of coal mine resources, sufficient funds, all of which make 60 million tons of steel output an inevitable result.

In this era of steel, Lu Liang's greatest wish is to smash all enemies with massive steel, and judging from the current situation, Lu Liang's wish will soon be realized.

The growth of China's steel consumption is mainly supported by domestic demand, and a small part is exported to Germany. Construction, transportation, machinery, automobiles, shipbuilding, railways, petroleum, military and household appliances are the eight major steel industries in China, of which the construction industry and transportation industry are the largest steel consumption industries, with a total construction scale of about 600 million square meters per year, according to the average direct consumption of steel per square meter of 50 kilograms, 30 million tons of steel are needed every year. The second is the transportation industry, which basically accounts for more than 80 percent of the country's steel consumption.

The third largest steel user is the automobile manufacturing industry, and the automotive steel plate used by Huaguo Automobile not only meets domestic demand, but also exports a large number of automobile production areas such as the United States and Europe. In 1909, China exported 4 percent of the world's automobile steel plates, and the largest export area was the screaming German Empire, which lacked steel.

The Times will do a feature story about China's construction industry, with the headline on the front page: China becomes the world's largest construction site. The weight of civil buildings and industrial buildings is roughly the same, and the madness of China's construction industry is different from the real estate fever of later generations, which is a phenomenon that makes up for the backward architectural civilization in China.

Construction, transportation and other industries consume a lot of steel, which can explain where Huaguo's annual production of 60 million tons of steel, 500 million tons of cement, 3 million tons of glass, and 100,000 construction machinery are used.

Walking past the steel sculpture and continuing along the asphalt road, a Chinese citizen who was exercising on a bicycle slowed down as he approached Roosevelt, glanced at the foreigner curiously, and then sped away.

Before 1905, China could be called the kingdom of bicycles, a country with more bicycles than the rest of the world combined, and most people traveled by bicycles. However, with the sharp increase in steel production, which led to a sharp increase in automobile production and a consequent decline in car prices, and more and more people with deep pockets among the people, banks also cooperated with car sales companies to introduce installment payment policies, which made the Huaguo automobile industry usher in a hot season.

Huaguo Benzhi Automobile Company is currently the world's largest automobile manufacturer (how can such an excellent Chinese name be registered by a foreign company?). The compradors of this group of XXX! The annual output of automobiles has reached 2 million, and the annual sales have reached 70 billion Chinese yuan. In August 1905, the Benzhi Automobile Company launched the famous Model Y, which was sold for less than 500 Chinese yuan, and later reduced to 300 Chinese yuan, which was only a quarter or even a tenth of the price of similar cars at that time, which an ordinary worker in China could buy with a year's salary. The T-type strategy of the company makes the car a means of mass transportation in the true sense, of course, the T-type car of Huaguo Benzhi company has a mature structure, beautiful appearance and strong power, which is several grades higher than the T-type car of Ford.

In 1905, the Model T produced by Benzhi Automobile Company opened a new era for automobile manufacturing, and it can be said that it was the pioneer of making the automobile a means of mass transportation in China and even the world in the 20th century, and was unanimously promoted by the Chinese media as the most important automobile invention in the 20th century. In 1907, Benz was the first to use assembly line assembly operations in automobile production, which was another revolutionary change and cemented Benz's position as the world's largest automobile manufacturer.

The development of Huaguo Automobile made the Americans vomit sour water, Ford Motor Company, Chrysler Company and other companies struggled to survive under the heavy pressure of Huaguo Automobile, and the newly established General Motors Company was forced to file for bankruptcy protection in less than half a year, and only the automobile companies under the San Francisco consortium could compete with Huaguo Automobile and occupy half of the American market.

In order to protect the domestic automobile industry, the US government soon introduced a tariff policy on imported cars from China, and the tariffs of up to 500 percent kept Chinese cars out. Soon, this policy had such a good effect that several major U.S. car companies developed, and eventually formed a pattern of sharing the U.S. market with the San Francisco Motor Company. But the closed auto market caused the U.S. auto industry to lag far behind China, and this backwardness did not change until hundreds of years later. (To be continued.) )