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In terms of industrial and agricultural production and scientific and technological research and development, 1940 was a bumper year. Due to the deepening of Sino-German secret cooperation, the large-scale operation of Soviet-aided projects, and the full resumption of production in the northeast industrial base, China's industrial production developed by leaps and bounds in 1940.

Taking the most important steel industry in this era as an example, in 1938, if you do not count the occupied areas, China's national crude steel output was only about 300,000 tons, and in 1939, because several large projects were put into operation, crude steel output soared to more than 1.5 million tons, and in 1940, those large steel mills have basically formed production capacity, so that China's crude steel output has surged to 3.6 million tons, which has exceeded the level of many second-class powers.

In 1940, China's annual power generation exceeded the 40 billion kWh mark for the first time, surpassing Japan's 35 billion kWh to become the largest in Asia. However, the most gratifying development is still in the chemical industry, the total output of the vital industrial triacid has exceeded 2.5 million tons, and the output of plastics and synthetic rubber has doubled.

In 1940, China's total cement output exceeded the 36 million ton mark, thus surpassing the United States and becoming the first major industrial product in China to reach the first place in terms of output.

Compared with these basic industries, equipment manufacturing industries such as machinery, automobiles, and aircraft manufacturing, which have a high content of jishu, have developed faster. However, in 1940, China was able to produce all common types of machine tools, heavy machinery, automobiles and airplanes (the introduction of the DC-3 production line has been officially put into operation), of which the annual output of automobiles exceeded the 50,000 mark, surpassing Japan and becoming the first in Asia, and the output of more than 100,000 tractors (but more than 85% of them were walk-behind tractors) was the largest in Japan. For the first time, bicycle production exceeded the 2 million mark, and bicycles not only quickly became popular in cities and towns, but also among farmers.

In addition, thanks to German aid and the introduction of human resources from Japan. In 1940, China also had the ability to build civilian ships with a displacement of less than 100,000 tons. It's just that at present, the few large shipyards in China have been occupied by the shipbuilders, so the large civilian ships cannot be built for the time being, and because of this, in addition to the three original shipbuilding bases in Qingdao, Shanghai and Dalian. Tianjin, Lianyungang, Nantong, Ningbo, Guangzhou and other coastal cities with natural harbors have also set off a boom in the construction of large docks. Fortunately, Hu Weidong discovered this sign in time. Only by taking back part of the delegated project approval power can we avoid the great waste caused by blindly following the trend in various places.

But even so, after the completion of the dockyards that had already started. China's shipbuilding capacity will also exceed 500,000 tons, and it can build warships with a total displacement of more than 200,000 tons at most every year, but what worries Hu Weidong is that it is impossible for China to produce all kinds of supporting equipment needed by such a huge shipbuilding industry during this period of time. Moreover, in the early post-war period, a large number of transport ships will inevitably be retired and enter the civilian ship market, resulting in extremely low ship prices, and how to sell the ships made in China at that time is also a headache

The development of China's pharmaceutical industry is even more rapid, even in the case of the general vigorous increase in the production of antibiotics by the Shijie powers, China's antibiotic production is still firmly in the first place, and the scale of the entire pharmaceutical industry, in 1940 China has been second only to the United States and ranked second in Shijie, but even so, the domestic masses are still short of medical treatment, no way, the population is too much. Therefore, this industry still needs to be vigorously developed, and it must be vigorously developed

Although Hu Weidong opposed the excessive development of resource-based industries purely for economic purposes, it was necessary to be as self-sufficient as possible, so the coal, oil and other industries also made great progress, among which the annual output of oil exceeded the 2 million tons mark for the first time in 1940, and the total output of substitutes such as shale oil and coal-to-liquid was not less than 500,000 tons, and China was finally barely able to be self-sufficient in oil at a minimum. However, with the rapid development of industry and the continuous improvement of national living standards, oil production needs to be further increased.

Fortunately, China's military strength is now enough to resist the invasion of any foreign power, and there is a formal truce with the Japanese, and some oil fields that were not developed before can now be explored, but considering that the northeast is too close to the Soviet Union, Hu Weidong decided that it is better to put Daqing for the time being, as for Karamay, it has been developed anyway, and there is no difference if it goes further, and the northwest and northeast are positioned differently in Hu Weidong's layout

China's domestic iron ore, on the other hand, was low in quantity and of poor quality, and it was difficult to import it from other countries outside the Soviet Union because of the British blockade (the United States basically did not sell iron ore, but scrap steel sold a lot). ), spent a lot of money for this (Mao Zi is a strange commodity to live in, so the price is sky-high. Although this has promoted the exploration and exploitation of iron ore in China, it has come at a great cost to China economically.

For this reason, China carried out-for-tat trade retaliation against Britain and later France, and the newly established Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that before the armistice between the two sides, China would suspend the export of several strategic resources that China had a dominant position in the shijie market, such as rare earths, tungsten, pig bristles, tung oil, etc., but in order to divide the powers, the Chinese side also said that it would open a small number of quotas according to the different degrees of friendship with China (but the price was still higher than before), of which Germany obtained the largest quota (the Soviet Union itself is rich in resources, The amount needed is small, so the quota needed is not much, at least on the surface, at present, China and the Soviet Union are still in a comrade and brotherly relationship. ）。

In addition, it is worth mentioning that in this economic war, Britain and France and the United States, which unexpectedly suffered from the fish in the pond, because the domestic production of bristles was in short supply, and once even the bristle brushes painted on the warships could not be matched, and later they could only use relatively much worse wool as a substitute, resulting in the warships because of the uneven paint coating, on the one hand, they had to paint more, which increased the cost (and at the same time, it also increased the resistance of the warship when sailing, thus reducing the speed and increasing fuel consumption). ), on the other hand, accelerated the rate of rust of the hull (which required more time for the warship to maintain), both of which affected the combat effectiveness of the US and British navies to a certain extent (to be continued......