In 1942, the development rate of China's industry was indeed slow, but it must be noted that the low growth rate of China's industry in 1942 only referred to the low growth rate of output value, but this was caused by various external factors such as the drought in the Central Plains, and the production capacity of more practical significance under the Jihua economic system had a huge increase compared with the previous year, which laid a solid foundation for the explosive growth of China's industry in the next two years

Moreover, even in industrial output, there are some regions and sectors that have continued to develop at a high speed, the former is mainly Xinjiang and Tibet, the two provinces of Xinjiang, the reason for the rapid development is also very simple, on the one hand, the investment is large, on the other hand, the base itself is low, and it is difficult to think of fast development.

In 1942, the population of Xinjiang soared by more than 15% compared with the previous year, most of them were immigrants from the interior, and most of them were young men and women in their prime. Considering that these immigrants have a high level of literacy and a relatively high labor productivity, the promotion effect on Xinjiang's economy is even more obvious.

Hu Weidong, secretary of the Northwest Bureau, even believes that even if Xinjiang's economy does not make any progress in substance, the influx of these migrants alone can provide a total growth rate of more than 20 percent, which still takes into account the need for adaptation when migrants first arrive and the time wasted in the relocation process, otherwise I am afraid that 30 percent would have been there. It's just that this "growth" is meaningless for the big picture. On the contrary, migration is more beneficial in other areas, such as national defense and security. So instead of praising Xinjiang's local cadres for the extremely exaggerated growth rate in the data, Hu Weidong set higher demands on them

In fact, if we only calculate the proportion, the growth rate of Tibet's population is not slower than that of Xinjiang, but because the number of people who come to Tibet is mainly scientific researchers, and the number of people engaged in production is small, and most of them are just floating population, not settled in Tibet, and there is no concept of GDP in China's economic data now, so the contribution to Tibet's economic data naturally cannot be compared with those immigrants in Xinjiang.

But their arrival has greatly changed the face of Tibet. Before liberation. Tibetans generally rely on dried cow and horse dung as their main fuel, and now in just a few years, more than 80 percent of households in Tibet have used solar cookers, albeit at a very low cost and with a modest amount of jishu. This kind of solar cooker, which can be mass-produced even by fast workers and small businesses, is due to the low temperature. Often, only a limited number of cooking requirements can be met. It has seriously affected its promotion and application. But in Tibet, where the sunshine is extremely strong and the weather is much more sunny than in the interior, its role is much stronger, and it has greatly reduced the fuel consumption of the Tibetans. This allows them to devote more time and energy to other work, which greatly improves their living standards, and the prestige of the party and the government in the hearts of the Tibetan people is also increasing

In addition to box-type solar cookers, concentrating solar cookers and solar water heaters with higher jishu content have also begun to be popularized among urban residents under the impetus of the Tibetan people's government, while the shiyan solar thermal power station being built in the suburbs of Lhasa is directly invested by the central government, fully demonstrating the determination of the CPC Central Committee to develop Tibet's rich solar energy resources and bring benefits to the Tibetan people

Tibet is also rich in geothermal resources, but because of the relatively difficult reason of Jishu, only Yangbajing has a shiyan geothermal power station under construction, with an installed capacity of only 1,000 kilowatts, but in any case, this is also a haode start.

In terms of traditional resources, Tibet is not a large resource province, but it has China's largest chromite mine, which is of great significance to China, which is extremely short of chromium, although after South Africa's independence, China has a new source of overseas chromite (the previous South African self-government suspended chromite exports to China for fear of falling into the hands of the Japanese), but it is much safer to produce a little more than nothing. The discovery of the Yulong copper mine in Tibet is also of equal significance, and will greatly alleviate the difficulties of China's copper shortage in the future.

However, for Tibet's hydropower resources in the whole country, and even Shijie's first, due to transportation and population constraints, I am afraid that it will not be able to be developed and utilized for a long time. Rinzen Ginji never gave up on his dream

In terms of the industrial sector, the growth momentum of China's energy industry in 1942 was still strong, of which the annual output of coal soared by more than 40%, breaking through the 150 million tons mark for the first time, which was mainly due to the concentration of a large number of new coal mines, especially large coal mines, and mainly in the first half of the year, and mainly due to the completion and operation of the first half of the year, while the rapid development of the oil industry and the power industry was mainly due to the special attention of the central government.

After the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the Soviet Union, which was too busy to take care of itself, soon stopped exporting crude oil to China, causing China to lose its main source of crude oil imports.

Under such requirements, China's major oil fields have tried their best to increase production, especially the Shengli Oilfield, which is still under construction, increased production by more than 1 million tons that year, creating a small miracle, and the annual output of Changqing Oilfield, which has sprung up, has also quickly broken through the one million ton mark, making China's total crude oil production in 1942 exceed 6 million tons, and this is only the beginning of China's petroleum industry take-off

Due to the astonishing power consumption of the "911 Project", the central government also attached great importance to the power industry, in order to ensure that the "911 Project" did not go wrong, the central government even relaxed the restrictions on private enterprises to enter the power industry, this policy began to show results in 1942, coupled with the continuous and substantial investment of the central and local governments, so that in 1942 China achieved more than 30% increase in power generation in the Central Plains Industrial Zone. New China's annual power generation capacity also exceeded the 80 billion kWh mark for the first time. (To be continued......)