In terms of urban construction, the scale is even larger, and all open channels that discharge domestic sewage must be turned into underground water canals built in accordance with national standards. Large-scale cleaning of sanitary dead spots in the city, increasing the area of green space, and building a large number of squares.

The subway lines around the city are tendered and built by local businesses, and the state is only responsible for supervising the quality of the works. This massive national transformation program, which will take over the course of ten years, will transform the entire Chinese empire into a new, completely modern state, while also allowing for a smooth transition of the country's heavy industry system.

In addition, the powerlessness of the laboratories of the state and the China Consortium in the midst of the pandemic made Fang Xiaoyu see the drawbacks of the institutional model, even if he had the best laboratory in the world, he could not take care of all aspects, and once there was a mistake, there was no one to make up for it, so Fang Xiaoyu let go of the constraints on private laboratories.

The private laboratories of the Chinese Empire have been implementing a very strict confidentiality system, and the strict review and export system of domestic science and technology has greatly hindered the pace of industrialization of the results of private laboratories, so that those laboratories have made little progress.

After experiencing the pandemic, Fang Xiaoyu decided to focus on supporting them, and the country's science and technology regulations have also made some adjustments. After the results of those private laboratories are obtained, the state will carry out acceptance ratings, and all scientific research products below the C grade will not be subject to any restrictions on exports, which greatly improves the research enthusiasm of the laboratory, and this rating system is like a gold signboard, those projects with higher levels and only allow domestic enterprises to invest have become the target of major companies, so that the financial operation of private laboratories has been greatly improved.

In addition to these, Fang Xiaoyu has also carried out a financial support program, once the scientific and technological research of a private laboratory is selected by the state or the military, they will receive a support fund for the research of this program, and the state will also buy these patents in due course.

The Chinese Empire will also set up a scientific and technological review team from this year, and every year will find out the most practical, successful or creative inventions in the private laboratories and national laboratories, rank them and give awards.

Correspondingly, a glorious award has also been set up among the scientists of the China Foundation who are unable to participate in these selections, which will be directly awarded by Fang Xiaoyu every year as the highest award within the China Foundation to reward those scientific researchers who have contributed to the foundation.

Some of Fang Xiaoyu's measures have ensured the speed of the country's scientific and technological progress, and some have ensured that heavy industry will not shrink greatly, but they have not had much effect on light industry. With the loss of most of the external market and the lack of substantial growth in domestic purchasing power, these products remain in excess of demand.

At this time, Fang Xiaoyu found that his previous policy had a big mistake, that is, providing free food to urban residents. Although such a policy was formulated to attract immigrants and stabilize the region, over time it also severely restricted the sale and circulation of food.

When a large amount of grain can be exported, this situation is certainly not obvious, but now when the population of the western continent has plummeted and grain sales are weak, this problem has become serious, so Fang Xiaoyu decided to change this situation, and what can support his determination is that the employment rate in the city is now as high as more than 98%.

Fang Xiaoyu soon issued an edict announcing that the state would abolish the policy of providing free rations to the urban population due to the substantial improvement in people's living standards, which immediately attracted a wave of criticism. The Chinese Empire was relatively free of speech, and there was never a case of being convicted of speech, so even among the people, newspapers and other media dared to criticize the country's policy direction.

Of course, this kind of accusation needs to be justified, otherwise it will still be held accountable by the Information Agency, and the state also has a special agency to answer these accusations in the newspaper, so as to better realize the communication between the government and the people, so that everyone can understand the true intention of the policy, and can also monitor the gains and losses of the national policy through the people.

This time it was Fang Xiaoyu who directly ordered it, so after being blamed, Fang Xiaoyu also published an article in the newspaper to explain. In the article, he recounted the economic operation of grain trading and its benefits to the country, and the role of the country's economic prosperity in stimulating the people's living standards. In the end, he also stated that the abolition of free food will not be for those who are still in need, and that the state will establish a system of subsistence allowances and pensions to provide the necessary living funds for those who are living in poverty or unable to work.

As soon as Fang Xiaoyu's article was published, the accusations quickly subsided, but many people were still uncomfortable. For example, those medium-sized families, who originally had free food as part of their family income, have now lost their free supply, and their living standards will naturally decline, and they need to use part of their income to buy food rations.

This kind of general heart of the people, Fang Xiaoyu is also clear, so after that edict, Fang Xiaoyu issued a new edict again, he announced that the labor law will be amended, taking into account the growth of national wealth and the urgent need to improve people's living standards, the daily minimum wage standard for all workplaces will be raised from 5 to 15 yuan.

Such an increase in wages naturally completely eliminated the unhappiness caused by the loss of free rations. After communicating with several major consortia, they also fully supported Fang Xiaoyu. Now that the foreign market is weak, if the economy wants to continue to develop, it is necessary to revitalize the domestic consumer group, and after the increase in wages, the consumption level will also increase, which can greatly slow down the shrinkage of output caused by the shrinking demand of the light industrial system.

In addition to stimulating the economy to avoid shrinkage, Fang Xiaoyu also wants to make some plans for domestic development. In the past, in order to develop the economy as soon as possible, there was no excessive restriction on the establishment and development of factories, which made the establishment of some factories more scattered, which was not only not conducive to resource allocation and overall environmental protection plan, but also increased management costs.

First of all, the four counties of the Far East, which have been very famous during the Chinese Empire, are a very fast-growing heavy industrial base, and it is natural that they will develop in this direction in the future. In addition to this, there are also the original Zhili County, Shannan County and Chuandong County, which are also the industrial areas of the original Lanfang Empire, and the Zhili Heavy Industry Base will also be established here.