It's just "traditional light industry" rather than light industry, because new industrial sectors such as automobiles are also strictly in the category of light industry, and the development rate of the former is not as fast as the same period in history, but it is still enough to make people jaw-dropping. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Heavy industry and new light industry have not slowed growth, but the total industrial output value has decreased significantly, the decline of the traditional light industry can be imagined, according to the estimate of the intelligence department, the industrial output value of this piece has shrunk by nearly 30% in the past 10 years, which is really shocking!

You must know that the traditional light industry is mainly a labor-intensive industry, although the technical content is not high, the number of employees accounts for more than half of the total number of workers. Therefore, such a large decline in the traditional light industry means that a large number of workers will lose their jobs, especially since the duration of the crisis for more than a decade has made temporary measures such as wage cuts and shutdowns meaningless, and the unemployment rate is even more inevitable.

The high unemployment rate has not only further weakened purchasing power, but also led to the continuation of the economic crisis. Western governments that are helpless about this can only turn on the printing press and desperately release water (the gold and silver standard has been abandoned anyway), but because only a small part of this extra money goes to the common people, the increase in purchasing power is far less rapid than the rise in prices. As a result, inflation is severe, but the economy has not recovered, and the phenomenon of "stagflation" that appeared in the 1970s has appeared more than 70 years earlier......

This strange phenomenon that is difficult to explain has had an unprecedented impact on the Western economic circles, and the poor at the bottom are even more miserable, the welfare system in the West is not perfect in these years, and the level of productivity is far less than that high after more than a hundred years, and even in Germany, which is less affected by the economic crisis and has the most complete welfare system, the government pressure is also very high, let alone other countries.

As a result, strikes and marches became commonplace, riots and uprisings became more frequent, and the international communist movement was far from mature at this time, unless the ruling apparatus of the Western powers was strong enough. and a feasible revolutionary line, and it is not clear that there have already been socialist revolutions in Western countries.

Seeing the resurgence of communist thought, the ruling classes in Western countries are still as anxious as ants on a hot pot. In order to avoid the discoloration of mountains and rivers, they took a two-pronged approach and actively carried out self-help from the two perspectives of treating the symptoms and the root cause.

The so-called symptomatic treatment is actually to divert contradictions, just as the American capitalists said that American workers were having a hard time because Chinese workers had robbed them of their job opportunities, and in recent years, China has miraculously and rapidly recovered, and also robbed a large number of Western colonies.

As for curing the root causes, it is not a fundamental solution to the economic crisis (which is simply impossible unless there is no capitalist system). Instead, they are looking for ways to open up new markets, fill the gap in purchasing power, and thus "fundamentally" end the economic crisis, and this goal is also only for the nascent China, because it has not opened its market to the West and is large enough.

In this context, even though there are many contradictions between the Western powers, their positions on the issue of China are becoming more and more unified, which is naturally not a good thing for the reviving China, but Li Hui has long expected this, let Yuan Shikai pretend to be a "****", give the Western powers a fortress that can be broken from the inside, the noose will not be collected so quickly, and China will win more time to develop and prepare (for war). Yuan Shikai, who disguised himself as a peace envoy, also visited many countries in Europe and the United States instead of Li Hui, who was afraid to go abroad for fear of being assassinated (Li Hui knew how many grudges he had formed in the past few years), fully demonstrating China's peace-loving image, and even if it could not completely smash the conspiracy of Western public opinion to advocate the "yellow and evil theory", at least it also made some Western people change their views on China, and it was not so easy for capitalists and politicians to fool them into becoming cannon fodder against China.

Yuan Shikai's visit also achieved an important result that did not attract the attention of Western governments at this time, that is, inviting Western scientists such as the Curie couple to China to participate in the award ceremony of the first "Mozi Prize".

Long before the victory of the revolution, Li Hui decided to set up a heavy prize similar to the Nobel Prize to attract scientists from all over the world, but because the work before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China was too busy, Li Hui could not spare his hands to prepare until Yuan Shikai became prime minister. Fortunately, even if it was delayed for a few years, it was still ahead of the Nobel Prize.

However, Li Hui has always attached great importance to applied science and technology, and he is not used to those theoretical scientists who belittle applied science and technology and exalt themselves, so the Mozi Prize not only includes theoretical science, but also has two other categories, namely applied science and invention and creation, plus a separate list of mathematics awards and "non-attack" awards to highlight their importance, a total of 20 awards, with a total of 10 million Chinese yuan, that is, 500,000 Chinese yuan each, far exceeding the amount of the first Nobel Prize in history (Note 1).

You must know that the income and treatment of Western scientists at this time are far from being comparable with later generations, even professors at the top of the tower (Western professors are much rarer than later generations of China, especially in this period, those who can become experts and scholars in the real sense, and even if they are world-class scientists, they may not necessarily be able to become professors. ）。 The annual income is generally only two or three thousand US dollars, which is only more than 1,000 yuan according to the market exchange rate (the official exchange rate does not have much reference significance......

Note 1: After the collapse of the gold standard in this time and space, the Chinese dollar, which was linked to the necessities of life and supported by penicillin and other monopolistic scarce commodities, inadvertently became the strongest currency in the world, and in the international exchange market in 1900, 1 Chinese dollar could almost be exchanged for 2 US dollars, and the prize of 500,000 Chinese yuan was equivalent to 1 million US dollars. The first Nobel Prize in history was only 150,000 Swedish kronor, about less than $42,000 at the time, and even if the collapse of the gold standard in time and space is taken into account, it is still only less than one-tenth of the Mozi Prize...... (To be continued.) )