PS: Do you agree with the way you write about the achievements of the country's economic construction through a square?

The Yangtze River Square in the center of Wuhan welcomed a special tourist, an American man, accompanied by two sturdy guards. If you look closely, you will find that several young Chinese men not far away have their eyes turned to this side from time to time, with bulging waists, vigilantly observing the surrounding environment. All this shows the special status of this American man, as he is the former president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.

After leaving the presidency of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt lived on his New Jersey ranch for a while, writing biographies, submitting opinion pieces to newspapers, and living a leisurely life. However, he was by no means a man who could endure loneliness, even in the pasture, he did not ride a horse to hunt and fish every day, and his study was full of newspapers, news and information provided by the intelligence department, so to speak, that he knew the world without going out.

During that time, he not only studied the reasons for the failure of his political career, but also analyzed in detail the changes in the international situation, the current situation and future trends. And all of this is closely related to Huaguo, so he developed a strong interest in Huaxia and Lu Liang, and read a lot of books and articles about Huaxia.

Many things could not be found in words, so in July 1909, Roosevelt set off from New York on the Chinese luxury cruise ship President, and finally arrived in Shanghai after more than three months of sailing. After that, he transferred from Shanghai to a river passenger ferry, docked in Wuhan on October 15, and began his six-month trip to China.

The expedition began aboard the Chinese President, and the sensation caused by the President's launch gradually dissipated, and people's enthusiasm was transferred to the world's top cruise ship. At that time, Roosevelt was also attracted by it, and specially collected some intelligence analysis about Huaguo's shipbuilding industry, coupled with some data released by Huaguo itself, and found that Huaguo already had a shipbuilding industry at the level of Britain and the United States.

Before 1905, China's large and medium-sized ships were built by several state-owned shipyards in Zhanjiang, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai, and from mid-to-late 1905, with the gradual accumulation of private capital, Huaguo gradually issued shipbuilding contracts to some private shipyards to reduce the heavy pressure on state-owned shipyards and concentrate on the production of military ships.

The vigorous development of maritime transportation and the huge impetus of the market have made the private shipbuilding industry burst out with strong vitality, especially the Huaguoda capitalists represented by the Wu Consortium and the Mei Consortium, who can invest huge sums of money, adopt advanced manufacturing technology, and employ high-level engineers and workers, with a very high starting point.

The increase in shipbuilding enterprises and the decline in the price of raw materials such as steel have kept the price of ships at a low level, and the confidence of several large state-owned freight companies, many small and medium-sized transportation companies, and fishing companies in private shipyards has increased, and a large number of orders have poured into private enterprises. On the basis of high profits, private shipyards have sufficient funds for the expansion of docks and slipways, as well as the upgrading and improvement of maintenance facilities, so as to catch up with and surpass state-owned shipyards in terms of infrastructure and further improve their competitiveness.

More favorable natural conditions make the north of Dalian, Qingdao, Tianjin become a new shipbuilding center, these three ports can radiate most of the northern areas, the use of national policy support, the rapid development of the north economy and the south of the abundant capital investment, the total production capacity of the shipyards in the three regions has been basically the same as the southern private shipyards. Several large state-owned shipyards are building larger military shipbuilding bases in these ports, which also meet the Navy's demand for warships.

By the end of 1909, China had an annual output of 650 civilian transport ships of more than 3,000 tons, of which 400 were of more than 5,000 tons and 70 were large cargo ships of more than 10,000 tons. However, the number of cargo ships of more than 3,000 tons held by China's private or state-owned transportation companies exceeds 1,900, and there are countless smaller cargo ships, and the door for China to enter the ocean from the mainland has been opened, and the key factor in China's rise is to become a maritime country from a continental country.

According to estimates, during the war, when the country does not enter a state of war, the Chinese shipbuilding industry can provide about 1,000 cargo ships per year after mobilization. If it enters a state of war, Huaguo's shipbuilding industry can burst out with an annual output of 2,500 ships, which is by no means an exaggeration to describe it as dumplings.

Since his departure, whether it is the cruise ship of the President of China, or the bustling port of Shanghai, or the golden waterway carrying countless passenger and cargo ships, there is no shock brought to him by the Yangtze River Square in front of him. Located in the center of Wuhan, the Yangtze River Square is an urban green space specially arranged by Luliang after the planning and reconstruction of Wuhan urban area, which is five blocks long and two blocks wide, and most of them are covered by green plants, so it is also known as the Yangtze River Park.

In fact, Roosevelt could see through a Yangtze River square to see through the achievements of China's economic construction. Standing at the entrance of the square, Roosevelt's eyes were first attracted by the tall buildings surrounding the square, which were no less than the high-rise buildings of Wall Street in New York. The Presidential Palace is located on the east side of the square, the Prime Minister's Office is located on the west side of the square, and there are also the embassy areas of various countries, the Ministry of Finance, the Police Headquarters, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other administrative headquarters on the east and west sides.

The long north and south sides are shocking skyscrapers, the Wu Consortium Headquarters Building, the Mei Consortium Headquarters Building, and the Wuhan Economic and Trade Building are the three tallest buildings here, and the northeast block where banks, insurance companies, fund companies and other financial institutions gather is the most important financial center in China. The northwest block, with more than 50 skyscrapers, is the largest official office center in Wuhan. Five blocks to the south, along the square road, is the largest shopping mall and leisure and entertainment venue in Wuhan.

These can best reflect the development of China's construction industry, and the large and medium-sized cities in all provinces of the country have been transformed into modern cities under scientific planning. The world's largest cement production provides sufficient raw materials for the construction industry, as a big country, as a big country with rich resources, China even has some waste of consuming huge production capacity. In particular, after the completion of the first step of the construction of North Industries, China's cement output not only surpassed that of the United States, but also exceeded that of the United States and the United Kingdom combined.

Hua Guo even had the spare energy to pave the square with high-grade pavement, strolling through the interior of the square, wandering among the green trees, and the touch coming from his feet reminded Roosevelt of the somewhat dirty downtown New York City. The flat and comfortable road surface in the square is also a kind of scenery, and the developed highway transportation system is one of the leading points in the world.

In densely populated and economically developed areas, convenient highways have been extended to towns and villages, and are advancing to every local village. In the most developed provinces of Guangdong Province and Zhejiang Province, a car can reach any village without hindrance from the city center. In the northern region, the highway system appears more magnificent, the more vast land and more suitable climate provide convenient conditions for the construction of highways in the north, and the highway connecting the provincial capital and the economic center city has appeared, and has become an important auxiliary to railway traffic.

According to rough statistics, China has more road mileage than the last few combined, even in the most economically developed United States, Britain and Germany, such cement roads and asphalt roads are rare landscapes, and most of the roads are dirt and sandy roads. Although the United States is working hard to build high-grade highways, the gap with China is obvious.

However, the most important thing is still the railway traffic, and after nearly a decade of construction, the south has built a spider web of railway systems. The trunk line and branch line are staggered and connected, spanning the water network, mountainous areas, karst landforms, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and Shudao natural hazards, and achieving the legend of the world's railway construction.

And the achievements of the construction of the Northern Railway can become the pinnacle of railway construction in the world, as can be seen from a set of data. At the end of 1909, the total mileage of the Chinese Railway reached 210,000 kilometers, second only to the United States with 320,000 kilometers, ranking second in the world. Among them, the mileage of the Northern China Railway is 120,000 kilometers, and most importantly, most of these railways were built after the end of the Second Northern Expedition, and more than 100,000 kilometers of railways were completed in about three years. This kind of project is definitely the pinnacle, you must know that the United States has gone from 100,000 kilometers to 300,000 kilometers in 30 years, and the geological and climatic problems they need to solve are much smaller than those of China.

The most important of the Chinese Railway are the two strategic routes, one is the Northeast China Eastern Railway, which extends north to near the Sino-Russian border, east to Vladivostok, and north through Manchuria to connect with the Trans-Siberian Railway, which will become the key to the strategy against Russia. There is also a branch line from Dandong into the Korean Peninsula and all the way to the city of Busan at the southern tip of the peninsula, and this branch railway is one of the most important lines of China's strategy towards Japan.

The other was the Central Railway to the Northwest, which was successfully completed in 1909 and reached the border between Xinjiang and Central Asia. In Xinjiang, the railway expanded to the north and south with Urumqi as the center, firmly controlling the vast Xinjiang region. Railways not only play a key strategic role, but also play an important role in economic promotion, Xinjiang has enviable resource reserves, China will be the most important heavy industry base after the construction of the North Industrial Base, steel, petrochemical, machining, textile and other industrial categories for the Chinese industry to provide a strong supplement, but also in the future to shorten the length of logistics and transportation, for the war to provide a strong driving force. (To be continued.) )