Shandong's population has reached 70 million, becoming the second most populous province after Sichuan, and the industrial development is relatively early, the per capita income is quite high, and the degree of urbanization is also the highest, which has reached 35%. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the opening of the Bohai Tunnel, the distance from Northeast China to Shandong has been reduced by more than 1,000 kilometers, which is very important for the Northeast agricultural products whose unit price is not high.

Therefore, the Northeast is about to attach great importance to the Bohai Tunnel, and the governors of Fengtian, Jilin, Heilongjiang, and the five provinces of Wudong and Heibei are all in place.

But not only that, another reason is that the economy of the Northeast is really sluggish.

Northeast China is the second largest heavy industry base, but compared with Shandong's heavy industry, it seems to be a little more extensive, their huge steel industry, but mainly pig iron and crude steel, unlike Shandong has long turned to shipbuilding steel and special steel.

This kind of extensive heavy industry, in the boom period, the benefits are quite rich, once the economic crisis, the ability to resist risks is too poor, the economic crisis broke out, almost all steel mills began to lose money, followed by production reduction and bankruptcy.

Due to the economic recession, several governors of the three eastern provinces have all changed, but whoever takes over is a hot potato, and there is no good solution.

After seeing President Mi Qing and Premier Yang Chao, the officials of the three eastern provinces cried vigorously, obviously this is their purpose.

And what they are crying is also very reasonable, because all parts of the country have to fight the support of national projects, but there is no movement in the Northeast, even if the old city project is renovated, the Northeast has received the least care, because of the late development, it is convenient for unified planning, and the Northeast is rich, so the urban infrastructure in the Northeast is relatively good.

The national investment in the construction of the southwest hydropower project, in one fell swoop can make the three southwest provinces become the power industry center, in Jiangxi to build the Guangdong-Jiangxi Canal, the Grand Canal reconstruction project can benefit the entire Jiangsu from the south of Shandong to the Yangtze River, as well as most of Zhejiang, from Xuzhou in northern Jiangsu to the Yangtze River, after the completion of the transformation, you can directly pass 2,000-ton ships, easy to organize 10,000 tons of barges has no problem, which is equivalent to Jiangsu in the construction of a longitudinal railway, or the highest standard of railway, For Zhejiang, Ningbo seaport is connected to the canal, and the interaction between the river and the sea has broad prospects.

In fact, the natural conditions and geographical conditions of the Northeast are very good, rich in natural resources, vast arable land, fertile land, and the long coastline of the Bohai Bay and the Sea of Japan, as well as the industrial base left over from the Tsarist era.

However, the disadvantage is also obvious, the coastline is long, but the port in the direction of the Sea of Japan is frozen for half a year every year, not to mention the port of Temple Street, even Vladivostok is frozen for half a year. Moreover, it is almost a closed economic system, unable to link with the mainland, and has little development stamina.

Therefore, the Northeast is trying to get greater support and hope that the state can invest in large-scale projects for them.

The country's big projects are not throwing money indiscriminately, that is the overall situation of the overall efficiency improvement of the country designed by Yang Chao, the southwest is that people have that condition, the Jiangxi water system and the Guangdong water system are only a dozen kilometers away from the watershed, these are natural conditions, it is given by God, and the Northeast can not be envied. Besides, the water transport in the Northeast is actually not backward, they don't need to build any canals, from the Kangxi time, the Liao River is a golden waterway, directly from Yingkou can go upriver to Jilin. There are 600 kilometers of waterways that can be navigated by ships, through the Hunhe River and the Taizi River, and the urban belts of Fengtian, Benxi, Tieling, Fushun and Liaoyang can all go directly to Haikou by steamer, and the river-sea combined transportation is extremely smooth.

In addition, the navigation conditions of the Heilongjiang River and the Ussuri River are also relatively good, and only the ice cannot be solved, so water transportation is not what the Northeast is fighting for, they are fighting for thermal power projects similar to Shanxi. They believe that the northeast is rich in coal resources and has the conditions to develop thermal power. As for hydropower, although there are large rivers such as the Liao River in Northeast China, the conditions for hydropower development are not good, the first is that the drop in the plain is too small to be barrage and dam, and the second is that there is a freezing season every year, and the characteristics of stable power supply requirements do not meet, so the most reasonable water conservancy construction in Northeast China is flood control and irrigation, and there are no conditions for the development of hydropower.

The coal resources in the Northeast can be used to build thermal power plants, but the question is who to buy? The distance is too far from Guannei, and it is not as good as Shanxi in the middle, which is convenient for power transmission to surrounding provinces. Therefore, Northeast thermal power should be based on self-sufficiency, just like their geographical location, self-contained.

"The population of Northeast China is less than 100 million now, right?"

Yang Chao sighed.

At its peak, the population of Northeast China exceeded 100 million, but most of them were immigrants, and after the economic crisis broke out, a large number of migrants moved back to their hometowns.

"The current economy of Northeast China, except for the heavy industry belt around Mukden, other cities are mainly dominated by light industry, especially the food industry, am I not wrong?"

Yang Chao asked again.

The natural conditions of Northeast China, the conditions for agricultural development are too good, so it is the largest commercial grain base in China, and this condition is too suitable for the development of the food industry. Therefore, the food processing industry is extremely developed, before the economic crisis in Dalian, there were 100 oil mills, and there were 30 in Anton, with a capital of tens of millions, and 1 million tons of soybean oil exports in Northeast China every year. There are more than 30 flour mills in Harbin, and there are more than 300 in the entire northeast, and the northeast flour supplies the rations of one-third of the population in the big cities in the north.

And the advantage of the Northeast is that it is not a certain city that is developed, but the overall development is good.

As the economic center of Mukden, the economic system is relatively perfect, and there are industries such as matches, winemaking, food, beverages, clothing, tanning, machinery, soap, candles, printing, tobacco, building materials, papermaking, and electricity.

Small cities and even small counties like Anton have their own franchised industries, such as more than 50 silk factories and more than 10,000 sets of machinery and equipment. There are also more than 40 silk factories and more than 5,000 sets of machinery and equipment in Xifeng County. Gaiping and Haicheng each have 12 silk factories and 9,000 machines. There are nearly 100 weaving factories in Yingkou, as well as factories for hosiery, ribbons, towels and so on.

With Fengtian as the center, many industrial cities with professional division of labor have been developed, such as Harbin's flour and oil extraction industries, which account for 80% of Harbin's total industrial output value; Dalian's oil extraction industry accounts for 90% of the local industry; Changchun's flour industry accounts for 75% of the total industrial output; Qiqihar's brewing industry accounts for 42% of the total industrial output.

It can be said that the light and heavy industries in Northeast China are balanced, industrialization is developing in an all-round way, and the industrial pattern is relatively healthy.

"Now that the consumer market has begun to recover, I believe that the economy of the Northeast will recover soon."

Yang Chao has confidence in the economic development of Northeast China, because the consumer market is not recovering, but what Yang Chao is worried about is suppressing, for fear of causing inflation, under various regulations, it is still slowly recovering, and it can return to the state before the economic crisis within a year.

However, seeing that the Northeast was about to be disappointed, Yang Chao's heart suddenly moved, American politics is capitalist and civilian, economic forces and political forces are developing and advancing in mutual games and compromises, but Chinese politics is more of a game between the central and local governments, if the local government cannot get benefits from the central government, it is difficult to say that there will be no centrifugal force, challenging the principle of great unification, and separatism is not enough, but in various policies, passive resistance and even confrontation are not impossible.

Out of political considerations, the central government should not ignore local demands at this difficult time.

Thinking of this, Yang Chao looked at Mi Qing.

"President, do you see if this is the case, the economy of the Northeast has indeed encountered temporary difficulties. Nor can we sit idly by. The central government exempted industrial enterprises in Northeast China from one-third of the tax to encourage them to upgrade their equipment and enhance their competitiveness. ”

Mi Qing was very smart, and immediately understood what Yang Chao meant, and nodded.

"Let's do it."

Only then did the Northeast dignitaries show their joy.

In recent years, with the strengthening of the power of the central government, it is mainly in the hands of Pan Xun that the proportion of central tax revenue has been increased to the extent that it is half of that of the local government, and the process is full of game colors, using the support of poor provinces in the central and western regions, and the parliament has passed such a tax distribution ratio in a surprise manner.

It is strange to say that in a stable society, the more backward the place, the more it supports the central government to increase its power, and the richer the place, the more it hopes that the central government will interfere less, and the reason is very simple, the poor places are more dependent on the support of the central government, and if there is no financial tilt from the central government, it is impossible for more than half of the provinces in the central and western regions to complete compulsory education.

Yang Chao then said: "Of course, you can't completely count on the central government, your local government also has to come up with a corresponding tax reduction policy, I suggest that you also exempt one-third of the tax." Of course, these tax reductions and exemptions are used as special funds, and the enterprise must be allowed to take out the bills to update the equipment to verify the tax credit. If the Northeast industry can update the equipment, the current predicament will be solved. ”

Of course, Yang Chao's purpose is not only economic, there are other deeper considerations, the industrial system in the Northeast is very complete, if the overall equipment can be updated, the competitiveness can be improved to a level, especially the overall strength of heavy industry, which means that the comprehensive national strength is strong.

Later generations only saw the rapid development of the German economy after the Nazis came to power, but did not consider where the basis of this development was.

After the First World War, Germany had ten years, three or four years at most, a short-term boom supported by the Dawes Plan, and soon an economic crisis was encountered, and the economy was immediately knocked back into the circle.

But others ignore that it is these four years that the German heavy industry as a whole has completed the replacement of equipment, and it can be said that when the economic crisis broke out, Germany's machinery and equipment were newer and more efficient than those of Britain and France.

After the Nazis came to power, Germany could smoothly begin to make military preparations, and if it were not for the universality of the Dawes plan, Germany's industrial equipment would generally be at the level before the first stop, and I am afraid that no matter how poisonous the Nazis were, it would be impossible to mobilize enough technical force.

If the Northeast industry as a whole can complete the equipment renewal before World War II, it will be a strong support for making war money in World War II or intervening by force. (To be continued.) )