Facts speak louder than a thousand words!

The gap between Japan and China does not seem to have narrowed in the past two decades, but has widened.

The population of Japan in the north and south has reached 60 million, while the population of China itself is 350 million. China's urban population is already moving towards 50% of the total population, or 175 million people. This is almost three times the population of North and South Japan combined, and more than the combined population of the four countries of Britain, France, Germany, and the United States combined.

The sum of Eastern and Western Russia is only a little more than half of this figure -- it can be seen that compared with the Soviet Union, which had a population of 160 million in the same period of time and space, Russia was really crippled by Liu Xian. Of course, if you add the 'brothers' of St. Petersburg and Moscow, their combined population can barely catch up with the 175 million standard.

No matter how high the urbanization ratio of Britain, France, Germany and the United States is, it cannot make up for the gap between the two sides. Not counting a large group of vassal states and younger brothers, just one China, a China that is much stronger than the United States at the same time, is not something that the Europeans can challenge after losing their world hegemony.

No matter how many people in Japan continue to dream of the mainland, no matter how many times they have cursed openly and secretly against the authorities of the Japanese government in the north and south, when they come to Shanghai, they will all dispel that unrealistic idea after seeing the changes in Shanghai.

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Whether it is the original time and space, or the world, the Nanjing-Shanghai-Hangzhou triangle in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River is the most important essence of China. In this small area, Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Zhenjiang, Wuxi, Yangzhou, Changzhou, Nantong, Jiaxing, Huzhou and other cities are concentrated. These cities are linked together to form an urban agglomeration that half of people would have imagined, and it can be said that almost all the best of China's Yangtze River basin is gathered here. Hokujiro opened his eyes to a lot of data on the industrial population of the Yangtze River Delta from Japanese reporters in Shanghai in the southwest. These things are not kept secret, but they are not publicly announced in the newspapers. As long as you have the heart, anyone can get it from the government, but this era is not the era of everything looking at GDP, and newspapers will not deliberately disclose these unattractive data.

The population of the entire Yangtze River Delta is larger than that of North and South Japan combined, and more than that of Germany, the most populous industrial power in Europe, and the gross national product is no less than that of Germany. Only this one Nanjing-Shanghai-Hangzhou Industrial Zone. The Chinese will be proud of the earth. In the final analysis, this Nanjing-Shanghai-Hangzhou Industrial Zone is only part of the eastern coastal economic and trade circle, one of China's four major economies. Of course, Shanghai's role is not only in the eastern coastal economic and trade circle, it is the only municipality directly under the central government in the country [the other is Singapore]. Shanghai belongs to the whole of China. In addition to foreign trade, its role is more internal, and it is the economic and financial center of the whole China.

In Shanghai alone, Beihui Jiro still has reason to suspect that this is used by the Chinese to decorate the façade. It is a face project that brings together the essence of the entire Chinese mainland. But after the entire Nanjing-Shanghai-Hangzhou Industrial Zone was turned around. The entire southwest delegation was smiling and excited. These people don't have the same sneering mood as Kita Teijiro, they are all excited about China's strength, because the stronger China is, the more reliable Southwest Japan will be.

In 1940, China's transportation was already quite developed, and railways and highways were built between various cities, and the transportation was very convenient. Teijiro Kita is a Japanese who came to South China for the first time. It was a real eye-opener. The Japanese delegation from Southwest China spent 10 days in Jiangnan touring the urban agglomeration between Shanghai and Nanjing.

Garden embroidery in Suzhou and Hangzhou, Kunqu opera food in Yangzhou and Zhenjiang. Nanjing's scenic spots, everyone really has a good time, and the summer of the year itself is also the most beautiful season of the year in the south of the Yangtze River. If this group of Japanese people hadn't been thinking about going to Central Asia for a meeting, they would really have been overjoyed.

Today's China is an existence that is even better than the beauty of later generations. When the era of the real 'global village' arrives, the number of people who will travel to Chinese mainland each year will be unpredictable. Just like the Chinese people of later generations are keen on overseas travel, to Japan, to South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, Europe five-day tour, Laomei seven-day tour, etc., is it really that the scenery of those countries is more beautiful than that of China? . So why are people who haven't even turned around domestic famous places so keen to travel abroad? It's not a fucking psychological problem.

The train left Nanjing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, and traveled on the vast Yellow Sea Plain, and the endless fields made Kita Teijiro feel sorry for Japan again. Compared with this powerful and incomparable country on the border, which has dominated the East for 2,000 years, how unfair God is to Japan.

The sum of the land area of Japan (north and south) is larger than that of the British mainland, but the continent that Japan faces is a continent that has a tradition of great unification since ancient times. And how calm is the British Isles? What kind of restlessness is the Japanese archipelago?

Earthquake, earthquake, or earthquake......

After the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, millions of Japanese went to sea with their families desperate, preferring to beg for food in the South Seas and Ceylon rather than stay in Japan itself. How pitiful Japan is!

Moreover, the British Isles have the most convenient coal and iron complex area in the world, and the British have no shortage of high-quality iron ore and coke for iron and steelmaking. And what about Japan? Japan's steel output in the north and south barely reached 200,000 tons last year, but the iron output reached 1 million tons, and it seems that it is also a steel powerhouse. But this is all based on the strong support of the Chinese government, and the Chinese have provided a large amount of coke and high-quality iron ore, which has greatly reduced the cost of steel in North and South Japan. Otherwise, even if the Japanese government in the north and south makes great determination to engage in steel smelting, the high-cost steel will not be able to stand up under the impact of China's cheap steel materials, and it will fall into a vicious circle in which the more it produces, the more it loses money.

In Beijing and Ma'anshan, he saw China's big steel industry, with 120 million tons of steel produced last year, which is comparable to the steel industry in Europe.

When the train arrived in Zhengzhou, another pillar industry that supports China's global hegemony -- the world's largest synthetic ammonia factory -- towered in front of all the members of the Japanese delegation in southwest China. The output of this plant alone is three times higher than the total output value of the entire ammonia industry in Japan. The nitrogen fertilizers and compound fertilizers produced here, such as urea, ammonium nitrate, ammonium phosphate, ammonium chloride and various nitrogen-containing compound fertilizers, as well as nitric acid, various nitrogen-containing inorganic salts and organic intermediates, sulfonamides, polyamide fibers, polyurethane and rubber, etc., are supplied to the entire large and central economy.

In Henan, the hinterland of China, in Zhengzhou, the hub of China's railway transportation, Kita Keijiro and the members of the entire southwest delegation once again opened their eyes. They thought that the Yangtze River Delta was already the essence of the whole of China, but when they arrived in Zhengzhou, they found that China's industrial center did not seem to be the only one in Nanjing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, and the powerful power of the central economy was not much weaker than that of the delta.

Of course, from a purely individual point of view, Zhengluo Industrial Zone cannot be compared with Nanjing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, but there are many industrial production areas such as Zhengzhou in the entire central economy, such as Anqing, Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu, and even Kunming......

The more you understand China, the more you will feel the horror of China. Teijiro felt like he really had to look up from parliament, a decades of political career that had eaten away too much of his acumen. He could clearly feel that many members of the delegation were very familiar with China, and in the face of Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Zheng Luo, Ma'anshan, and the endless fields of the Huanghuai Plain, they did not have the slightest shock, but only joyful excitement. What does this mean? This shows that these members are aware of China's situation, and they see that China is only happy that its development is getting better, and it is not that Kita Teijiro is so shocked because of his abruptness.

In the past, Kita Teijiro knew about China's four major economies, but he didn't have much sense of perception, and at one time he even thought that the four major economies were four consortiums that were many times larger than Mitsui and Sumitomo, and later learned that they were four industrial complexes. China's financial community is inseparable from the four economies. Otherwise, wouldn't China be divided into four countries?

China's financial circle, dominated by the financial power of the Qin consortium and state-owned banks, is the glue of the entire China's primary, secondary and tertiary industries, the four economies seem to be divided, but they only divide the vast market outside the local area, which is different from the real sense of economic segmentation, China's local market has always been a whole, and this big market is still a little bigger and stronger!

A trip to China refreshed Kitaki Keijiro's cognition again and again. When the train passed through Henan, Kitaki Teijiro took the initiative to provoke the topic of China among the members of the delegation for the first time, and in the words of many members of the delegation, he really had a deep understanding of modern China.

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Just as delegations from all over the world flocked to Samarkand, on the edge of a large desert in Central Asia, Samarkand was also entering martial law in all directions. Airplanes cruising in the air day and night, and armored vehicles and groups of soldiers stood majestically in the streets and alleys.

From Samarkand to the north, in the vast desert of Kyzylkum, a fortress-like structure rises over the desert, where there is hardly a drop of water, and the cost of building such a fortress is enormous, but the cost of this building is not worth mentioning compared to the amount of money spent on the whole project of growing mushrooms.

In the huge fortress, there are thousands of armored vehicles, tanks, and thousands of aircraft...... (To be continued.) )