Under the premise that the resources are sufficient and the quality of the population is not bad, the more the total population of a country, the more workers and soldiers, the stronger the industrial and military power, and if higher education can keep up, then it also means that there is a stronger scientific research ability. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info A country has a large population, which may not necessarily be strong, but if the population is small, then the comprehensive national strength must not be strong. The most typical negative example is France, the former European continent's first power has fallen into what it is now, and will continue to fall, in the final analysis, isn't it because the French are greedy for pleasure and unwilling to have children that the population is surpassed by Germany, and the gap is getting wider and wider?

Although China's current industrial scale is far from the significance of 700 million people because of its late industrialization, at least the potential is gradually emerging. What is even more frightening to Western people of insight like the old Chamberlain is that even the current scale of China's industry is enough to arm a terrifying number of strong troops, and the population of 700 million therefore has an immeasurable military value, according to the mobilization efficiency of the West, take one-tenth of the 70 million troops, even if China's size is too large and will affect the efficiency, it can at least mobilize 20 or 30 million land forces, 20 or 30 million army, what is this concept? I'm afraid that even if the whole West unites, it will still be helpless to take China, right?

It was precisely because he found that China was so strong that it was completely impossible to confront that the old Chamberlain had to pretend to be his grandson, and as long as China did not violate the core interests of the British Empire, he chose to tolerate it as much as possible, even if it attracted opposition and criticism from many people in the West, including Britain, the old Chamberlain did not waver in the slightest.

However, the government of the Chinese Republic is not satisfied with the current situation in China, and although the total amount of industry is already quite impressive, the average level of productivity in China is still very low. In order to overtake the West as soon as possible, the government of the Republic of China ambitiously put forward the first clear five-year development plan since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1910......

First, the public economic development plan will inevitably expose China's true strength at the same time, and if it arouses the vigilance of Westerners so early, China's development will inevitably become extremely difficult in the future. Second, because the industrial base is too weak, the total industrial output value can skyrocket dozens of times if a few large factories are built, and the growth rate index is not easy to determine, and there is a lack of reference value for future development; Second, the population in China that had received modern education was too small at that time, and if we started to industrialize too early, there would be even fewer people to devote ourselves to education, and in the long run, the gains would inevitably outweigh the losses, and it was likely that we would not be able to succeed early.

In addition, because the industrial scale was still small at that time, only a few key industrial cities could be developed to have quite significant results, and there was no need to formulate a national industrial development plan.

But now the situation is different, with the continuous development of China's industry in the past ten years, although China's industry is still concentrated along the coast and along the river, plus a few resource-based cities with mining and metallurgy as the backbone industry, it is obvious that it is gradually approaching the bottleneck period, and it is necessary to expand the scope of radiation outward.

Especially with the rapid development of industry and agriculture, after the domestic people have no worries about food and clothing, it is natural to desire a more colorful life, and it is urgent to speed up the development of light industry, which is a labor-intensive industry, and the number of workers and supporting social service personnel required is unimaginable before, and the variety of light industrial products is far from being comparable to heavy industry. Therefore, it has become increasingly necessary to develop a clear and open national development plan.

First, China is strong enough to be fearless of any foreign enemy and will no longer have to keep it secretive from the West. Moreover, now that the industrial foundation has been laid, although the development of various departments is still very unbalanced, after all, the total amount has reached a considerable scale, and in any case, there will never be another such thing as relying on state investment alone, the total industrial output value can increase dozens of times in a few years, and subsequent development will also need to follow and make use of economic laws, and another point is that the State Development Planning Commission, after all these years of practice and training, can fully assume the corresponding responsibilities; And the most important thing is that with the sustained and rapid development of China's education in the past ten years, the domestic teaching force has grown unprecedentedly, and initially has the ability to multiply rapidly, and it is no longer necessary to concentrate most of the country's educated population as before, or even many of them are foreigners.

In fact, if it weren't for the outbreak of the Three Kingdoms War that disrupted the plan, this day would have arrived about two years earlier. However, even after the outbreak of the Three Kingdoms War, a part of the funds and manpower that were prepared for the development of education were invested in industrial construction in consideration of national security, China's education industry still continued to advance on its own......

In 1909, the goal that Li Hui had been looking forward to was finally achieved, and for the first time in China, the primary school enrollment rate of school-age children exceeded 95 percent. 95% is statistically significant, because less than 5% can be considered a small probability, and China's primary school enrolment rate of more than 95% of school-age children means that China has basically universalized full compulsory education at the primary school level, an achievement that is only slightly later than that of the old imperialist powers such as Britain and France (not comparable to Germany, which was universalized before the Franco-Prussian War). And even the United States, which once ranked first in the world in terms of total industrial volume, has not yet done so.

Of course, school enrolment is one thing, and it doesn't matter if a child drops out after a year or two, but this is extremely rare in China today, because the cost is too great. Even if the implementation area is not so harsh after the implementation of the implementation area, the punishment is still severe, and the abolition of key treatments such as affordable fertilizers, seeds, and free medical care is enough to make children stay at home to help work and become a loss-making business.

In addition, the compulsory education in the Chinese Republic is compulsory education in the full sense, and even the book fee is covered by the state, and even the students are given a nutritious lunch every day......