Although China's oil production in 1941 was only 4 million tons and needed to be imported from the Soviet Union in large quantities, the three oil fields of Shengli, Dagang and Changqing also began to be constructed, and although the Daqing and Liaohe oilfields in the northeast have been surveyed, the Red Party Central Committee decided not to develop them for the time being, anyway, as long as the three new oil fields can be developed, and a few old oil fields will work hard to tap their potential, China's oil industry can also achieve the goals set by the "First Five-Year Plan". Increase annual oil production to more than 15 million tons

The main reason for the urgency to increase oil production is that the central government has taken into account that sooner or later the Soviet-German war will break out, and that Japan and the United States will inevitably fight (Note 1), and that the sea routes will inevitably be greatly affected, and if domestic oil production is not enough to meet the most basic needs, there will be serious problems.

In addition to the rapid replacement of steam locomotives on railways by diesel locomotives (electric locomotives are only available on new and renovated electrified railways), the rapid development of the petrochemical industry and the significant increase in the number of cars and tractors in China are also very important

Due to the abundant natural rubber resources of the Indochina Peninsula, the demand for synthetic rubber has been greatly reduced, and only special rubbers such as oil-resistant nitrile rubber have received attention, but the needs of the two major industrial sectors of synthetic fibers and plastics alone are already a large number.

Although later generations more respected pure natural materials such as cotton, wool, silk and other fabrics, with China's current huge population of more than 600 million and the production of natural fibers such as cotton is far lower than that of later generations. If the fabrics of these natural materials alone are relied on, the annual output is not enough to add two new clothes per person in the country, and agriculture (in the broad sense) is not like industry, which can quickly increase production in a short period of time, and at the same time, cotton has to compete with grain for land, which is very fatal.

Although China's per capita grain output in 1941 has exceeded 350 kilograms, because of the need to "prepare for war and prepare for famine", a large amount of grain has been stored in the warehouse [in fact, it is a supplement for the old government], coupled with the extremely low feed conversion rate of the breeding industry at this time (some people in later generations often lament that the current chickens are all spawned, not as delicious as before, but they do not know that with the low feed conversion rate of the year). How many people in China can afford meat? ）。 Therefore, this year, the Chinese people can only barely fill their stomachs, and as for the fish, meat, and fish, those who can eat it once a week are considered wealthy, so "taking grain as the key link" is still the main tone of China's agricultural development.

And because of that. China now only allows cotton to be grown in saline-alkali areas that are not suitable for growing food crops (Note 2) and in Xinjiang, which is particularly suitable for growing long-staple cotton, a commodity for export. So the yield is naturally not much higher. Wool and silk are no better. The latter is still an important export material, and even fewer can be used domestically. Therefore, it is necessary to change the domestic masses in the "new three years." The old three years, and another three years of sewing and mending. In fact, in history, the Chinese solved the problem of dressing after Yizheng Chemical Fiber and other large chemical fiber enterprises were put into production. With the breakthrough of a large number of petrochemical key jishu represented by "100,000 tons of ethylene" (which was the largest ethylene plant on shijie at that time), the great development of the chemical fiber industry is just around the corner, and the era of Chinese people not wearing warm clothes is about to pass!

The plastics industry has also benefited from it, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride and other most important plastic varieties have begun industrial production, among which the nylon made by Zhongfu International in the United States is naturally indispensable, not only the varieties, but also the output is constantly surging.

In Taizu, "What foreign countries have, we must have; What foreign countries don't have, we have to have. "He Hu Weidong" In the field of emerging industries, we started at the same time as the West, and even a little earlier, we must do everything to strive for the upper reaches to establish and maintain our advantages. Under these instructions, China's scientists and workers have worked together to build the petrochemical industry into one of China's most important pillar industries, even on a par with the United States (Note 3), but it is the Chinese government's management and recycling of petrochemical products such as plastics that are even more commendable

Under the premise that the government attaches importance to it (if it does not pay attention to it, it is the opposite), the jihua economic system is much more convenient than the market economy system in terms of pollution prevention and control, because the production of plastic film is controlled by the state, so there is no chance of white pollution such as disposable plastic bags that are very harmful in later generations (after the plastic film in agricultural production is covered with jishu, ultra-thin plastic film began to be produced in large quantities, but because the amount is large, and farmers are generally thrifty, the recycling rate is not low. And those thicker plastic bags are recycled at relatively high prices by state-run waste collection stations, and there is a lack of cash (under the jihua economic system, basic benefits such as education and medical care are free, and basic prices are relatively cheap, but wages are set very low, which can not only ensure the basic livelihood of vulnerable groups, but also greatly reduce the impact of foreign goods on domestic enterprises [the price of imported goods is too high for ordinary people to afford. 】。 The Chinese people are rarely stupid enough to throw them away instead of taking them to the scrap yard for money, and the same is true for other goods that cannot be degraded naturally, which not only greatly reduces pollution, but also saves a lot of resources (at the turn of the seventies and eighties, the United Nations praised China as a model of environmental protection and conservation in Shijie countries).

Note 1: The main reason is that Japan owes billions of dollars in debt and is unable to repay this dead knot, and with Taizu and Hu Weidong's understanding of the Japanese national character, they naturally know that they will not be willing to pay off their debts honestly, but will take risks like Germany, while the Americans only consider that Japan is simply unable to compete with them, and underestimate the madness in the bones of this nation

Note 2: Cotton has a super salt tolerance, so the recent CCTV report on the scientific research project of converting saline-alkali land into fertile land has a lot of moisture, because cotton can be planted on saline-alkali land (of course, it also depends on the degree, but the tidal flats in Xinwei will soon be able to grow cotton, which is enough to show that cotton has a strong salt tolerance ability. When can you plant wheat in the transformed saline-alkali land (rice needs a lot of water, in fact, the rice field itself has the effect of reducing salt, as long as it can be planted with rice, the saline-alkali land will not be able to become fertile land in many years, so most of China's saline-alkali land is distributed in the water-scarce north. That can be said to be a major breakthrough

Note 3: Because the Soviet Union and China were both lagging behind the West in the history of the founding of the country, and there was no prescient traverser like Hu Weidong to guide them, they could only follow the West and desperately catch up, so few people realized that in fact, under the Jihua economic system, as long as the country is willing to invest, it is not difficult to follow or even surpass the advanced level of Shijie in the case of starting similarly, and at the end of the 70s, China was so poor, and there are still many areas that are close to or even reach the advanced level of ShijieWhat's more, today's China has a better foundation, and the emerging industrial field is still the earliest? (To be continued......)