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Compared with the Arab Federation, although New China is still one of the poorest countries in Shijie, it is even more powerful in all aspects. In 1941 there were some troubles, but with the completion of another batch of Soviet-German aid projects (the Soviet-aided projects were all completed by this time, and the German ones were still a small part). For the first time, the total industrial output value of the new China has exceeded the $9 billion mark, and China, which was a completely backward agricultural country a few years ago, has quietly become the sixth largest industrial country

In 1941, China's crude steel production was already close to 5 million tons (if it had not been for the Czechs, it could have been reached or even exceeded). ), ranked 6th in Shijie, and the consumption of steel surpassed that of Japan in Shijie 5th, and the huge gap of more than 5 million tons was mainly made up by imports from the Soviet Union and Japan when steel production could not meet the demand in a short period of time. The reason why China's demand for steel will increase rapidly to this point is mainly due to the need for infrastructure.

At the end of the Anti-Japanese War, there were only three bridges on the Yellow River, and there was no bridge on the Yangtze River. The railway mileage in Chinese mainland is also far from meeting the needs and is extremely unevenly distributed, which undoubtedly hinders the development of China's economy and industry.

In addition, with the advent of peace and the successful construction of the Yanpanxia Hydropower Station, a lot of valuable experience has been accumulated, so it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of China's abundant hydropower resources and vigorously build hydropower stations to reduce the threat of flooding in the Yellow River and provide power generation and irrigation. It was put on the agenda.

Compared with the Yangtze River, the cascade hydropower station in the upper reaches of the Yellow River was first approved to start construction because of the relatively small construction difficulty and the earliest project approval (Liujiaxia Hydropower Station began construction in 1940, and after entering 1941, the construction of three water conservancy hubs of Longyang Gorge, Bapanxia and Qingtongxia also began successively, and the total scale is unprecedented in the history of Shijie. Naturally, such a large project also requires a lot of steel. On the one hand, steel is the most important basic industrial product of this era, on the other hand, industrial construction itself also needs a large amount of steel, and there is really no other way than to import before the newly built steel plants in China have fully formed production capacity.

For this reason, the Chinese government even exports large quantities of iron ore to Japan. And agreed that North Korea would also export to Japan. In order to use Japan's steel production capacity to serve domestic construction, China imported more than 5 million tons of crude steel and steel from Japan in 1941 alone (the unused part is reserved for strategic reserves), and Japan's annual crude steel output can break through the 15 million tons mark, which is directly related to the large orders from China. But the Japanese government also knows that this kind of good thing will not last long. Otherwise, there would be no risk of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Because it can be imported to save the emergency. Moreover, there are now hard currencies and goods that can be sold, and China's infrastructure construction efforts are much greater than in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the Lanzhou-Singapore Railway, which is considered to be the top priority, was completed in early October 1941. The Luoyang-Xi'an and Urumqi-Bole railways were completed earlier, and the Second Eurasian Land Bridge was completed ahead of schedule. In addition, there are five main railway lines under construction in China, including the Baocheng Line, the Chengkun Line, the Chengdu-Chongqing Line, the Jiaozhi Line (Jiaozuo to Zhicheng in Hubei Province via Luoyang) and the Tailuo Line (Taiyuan-Luoyang), and in Henan, a number of short-distance railways have been built one after another, and they are making great strides towards the goal of "connecting counties and counties".

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the mess left by Yan Xishan - the narrow-gauge Tongpu Line and other Shanxi railways have also begun to be renovated, and in the spirit of the idea of once and for all, the Chinese People's Liberation Army Railway Corps Command is not satisfied with just changing the narrow gauge to standard gauge, but is ready to use this opportunity to transform these old railways into electrified double-track electrified railways. However, despite this, the Tongpu line, which was the first of the Shanxi railways to be renovated, could not become the first such modern railway in China, and although the Taiyuan-Luoyang line was a newly built railway, it was completed a little earlier because it was more valued by the central government

With the construction of these railways, a number of steel bridges have sprung up on the main Yellow River road, which originally consisted of only three bridges, including those still under construction and highway bridges, with a total of no less than 10. Although the Yangtze River is much larger in water and wider than the Yellow River, the construction of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge and the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge has already begun

Compared to the railway, the construction of roads is not so eye-catching, but in the "If you want to get rich, build roads first." Inspired by the slogan, the local government and the masses have enthusiastically invested in the construction of highways, and the results are even greater than the construction of railways. It is somewhat similar to that, although the farmland water conservancy infrastructure looks very inconspicuous, but if you count the total amount of earthwork, it is far more terrifying than the dams under construction on the Yellow River, Hu Weidong learned about these situations, and could not help but sigh again, in the weak foundation of the present, Jihua economy does have incomparable superiority, these projects with a lot of labor investment and relatively slow return are done according to the methods of the market economy, let alone the current Chinese government. Even China, which is already the number one industrial country in Shijie in the 21st century, cannot afford it at all

Furthermore. In order to meet the needs of industrial production and people's lives, the energy problem has also been highly valued by the party and the government, and the annual output of superior resource coal has exceeded 100 million tons for the first time, ranking sixth in Shijie (Note 1), effectively ensuring the successful achievement of the goal of total power generation of 60 billion kWh in 1941, and the promotion of honeycomb coal in large and medium-sized cities across the country has also greatly saved energy and reduced pollution to a certain extent (compared with using briquettes or even raw coal as fuel)

Note 1: In 1941, China's total coal production was about 100 million tons, ranking behind the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, Germany, and Japan. It must be noted here that at that time, even if Britain only counted local coal production, it was second after the United States (the Industrial Revolution began in Britain, not only because Britain had the most colonies, but also because Britain had the top coal and iron complex at that time. Germany's Ruhr area is famous, and it is no less than the Soviet Union in terms of coal production, even in resource-poor Japan, the historical coal production in 1941 was close to 60 million tons, most of which were local production, and it is not surprising that the annual output exceeded 100 million tons and slightly higher than that of China at this time. Speaking of which, coal is a resource that is really everywhere, no wonder it is far less valuable than oil (to be continued......