Chapter 257 Report on the Work of the Executive Committee
It is not that the Executive Committee is worried that these naturalized people will become a privileged class after they have been better treated by marriage, but in fact there will be the existence of a privileged class in any country or society, and the vast majority of the people who have traveled to this time and space have come to this time and space for the same purpose. It is only a matter of time before some of the naturalized people who marry with the Crossing will form a new privileged class, but the key is that the population under the jurisdiction of the Crossing Group in Sanya is less than 10,000 people, and if there are dozens of more privileged families from naturalized people in a short period of time, it will have a self-evident negative effect on social stability. The Executive Committee has not yet decided on a final solution to this point.
Compared with this kind of trouble, the Executive Committee would rather let the bachelors go to the ** opened by "Fu Ruifeng" to solve the problem for the time being, at least it is convenient and quick with few sequelae, and even if anything happens, it can be guaranteed to be within the control of the Executive Committee.
The detailed planning and strict control of the Executive Committee in advance were effective on the opening day, and there was no scene of a large number of single travelers crowding the hall at the time of opening. This is because the Executive Committee has consciously controlled the issuance of consumption vouchers, so as to prevent members who have overflowed with hormones from making uncivilized and irrational actions. The first consumers to receive the Board's approval were those with the most difficult jobs, such as prospectors who had been in the field for a long time, military police stationed at various mountain posts, sailors who spent more time at sea than on land, and so on.
The low-key handling of the executive committee also saved a lot of trouble for the opening of this business, and the relevant departments were originally worried that the feminists led by Ressa would jump out again to make trouble, but this time it was calm and there was no more extraneous situation. Some people think that this has something to do with the fact that the executive committee specially transferred Gu Kai back from Heitu Port, and the young couple are newly married after a long absence, so Ressa naturally has no time to pay attention to external affairs.
The news department under the Ministry of Information Industry, which has always been troublesome, also obediently shut up this time and did not make an in-depth report on the opening of this business. Meng He greeted the people in the Ministry of Information in advance, this is a major event that affects the stability and unity within the group, and whoever wants to talk too much at this juncture will be careful to be sent to Heitu Port as a foreign correspondent.
On December 27, when all walks of life arrived, the Executive Committee began to hold a plenary meeting to summarize the construction progress of the past six months and look forward to next year's development plan.
The reason why it is a "plenary meeting" rather than a "general assembly" is that in addition to those who are stationed outside, there are many members who are not able to attend the meeting directly, especially in the Tiando Industrial Zone, where the technical backbone of each production unit is a time-traveler, and if these people leave their posts, then almost all production must be stopped, and this is certainly a situation that the Executive Committee does not want to see. Therefore, only the representatives and responsible persons elected by each unit attended the meeting, and the number of participants accounted for about one-fifth of all members, which is quite high.
Early that morning, after the participants entered the No. 1 base, the militia set up a barricade outside the gate, refusing to allow ordinary naturalized citizens and foreign merchants to enter. In addition to security considerations, this is also to try to ensure that the process of the meeting is not interrupted by other trivial matters.
Due to the large number of participants, the original conference room must not be able to accommodate so many people, so the venue was also moved to a small sports field in the center of the base. Fortunately, the weather has been good recently, and this open-air meeting was able to go smoothly.
The executive committee headed by Tao Donglai presided over the meeting, and although the nature of the executive committee is still a temporary management body, the term of office of these members is one year, which means that the first re-election will not be held until three months later, when the first anniversary is approaching.
Red tape was rare in the internal meetings of the Crossing Bloc, and bureaucratic habits did not yet exert much influence among the ruling staff of the clique, so the meetings quickly got to the point from the start. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)
First of all, the "Report on the Work of the Executive Committee" made by Tao Donglai on behalf of the Executive Committee, the content of this report covers the construction arrangements and actual progress in all aspects after the crossing, especially the contents of industry and agriculture, immigration, military construction and maritime undertakings, which are of greatest concern to the members, and are all introduced in detail in the report.
Up to now, the actual population under the jurisdiction of the group has exceeded 10,000 people, including more than 4,500 registered naturalized residents in Shengli Port and more than 3,200 registered naturalized residents in Heitu Port. In terms of the proportion of naturalized people in the population, Heitu Port is significantly higher than the base camp, because the vast majority of people who go to Heitu Port are homeless refugees, and there is no other way to join the naturalized people. The Sanya area has a large number of local residents, and the demographic composition is much more complex than that of Heitu Port.
At present, the introduction of immigrants through the group has made great progress compared with the early days, not only has North Vietnam been found as a channel for population import, but also the number of immigrants recruited from the Ming Dynasty has also increased steadily. In particular, after the establishment of the Guangzhou Office, the recruitment of immigrants in the mainland has been very targeted, mainly targeting all kinds of craftsmen and down-and-out literati, and the immigrants recruited from Guangzhou are obviously much stronger than other immigration import channels.
Looking at the current proportion of the naturalized population, there are both gratifying points and hidden worries. More than 60 per cent of the current naturalized population is between the ages of 18 and 40, which is significantly higher than in any other country of the same era. The high proportion of the labor force in the total population is one of the main reasons why various construction projects can be implemented at a rapid pace. However, similar to the proportion of the population of the Crossing Group, there is also an imbalance in the ratio of men and women among naturalized people, with only 27% of the total population and the proportion of marriageable single women being pitifully low.
In addition, the proportion of naturalized people with education is also quite worrisome. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, only 12% of the naturalized residents in the base camp area have received Mongolian education, and this includes the students who have received literacy education after the establishment of the academy by the crossing group. Recently, however, the situation has been improving, and the down-and-out literati who defected to the Crossing Group have now begun to gradually take over the most basic literacy teaching work, allowing the education department to concentrate the Crossing Teacher Force on a higher level of elite education.
In contrast, the situation of Ming immigrants was significantly better than that of North Vietnamese immigrants. The literacy rate of naturalized residents in the Heitugang area is now less than 5%, and the vast majority of the population is purely illiterate, which also makes it difficult to gain the understanding and support of the people in the implementation of various civil affairs measures. The report also sets out a vision that by the end of the next year, the literacy rate of naturalized people will reach more than 20 per cent, which is actually lower than the literacy rate of Liberia and Afghanistan in the 21st century.
In fact, the low literacy rate of naturalized people does not represent the cultural level of this era, and the average literacy rate of people in the prosperous areas of the Ming Dynasty is even more than 30%, far exceeding the level under the rule of the crossing group. A large part of the reason for this situation is that the main source of naturalized people is the poor population with very low education. For example, at the beginning of the landing, it recruited its Yulin fishing village, and the fishermen in the village were illiterate at that time, and they couldn't read a basket of words. Not to mention the Limiao mountain people from the inland areas, many of whom can't even speak Hainan official dialect well, and can't talk about the literacy rate at all.
Therefore, the Executive Committee has put forward special requirements in the recent immigration work, and has increased the requirements for the cultural quality of mainland immigrants. From a certain point of view, this is also a kind of policy tilt made by the Executive Committee to their own nationality, and the uneducated North Vietnamese immigrants can basically only engage in the most basic physical labor after entering the naturalized people's system, and if they want to get ahead, they can only join the army or wait for the second generation of naturalized people to receive education and grow up, while craftsmen or literati who have moved from the Ming Dynasty to the area ruled by the Executive Committee and have a certain level of education will have a higher www.biquge.info and have more opportunities to become the backbone of the new society.
In terms of shipping, after the hard support in the first half of the year, it has finally ushered in a wave of explosion of maritime capacity recently. At present, it has not only maintained the capacity of ten large ships on the route from Shengli Port to Heitu Port, but also opened regular flights on the route from Shengli Port to Guangzhou, and four ships are divided into two shifts to participate in the transportation of this route, and on the first and fifteenth days of each month, they depart from the two ports on the first and fifteenth days of each month, and solve the material needs and migration transportation problems of the Guangzhou Office on a certain distance.
In addition, the shipping assistance offered by the crossing group to the Fujian Xu Xinsu group in the previous arms trade was finally responded, and the Fujian side will provide the crossing group with 10 400 ships through guò "Fu Ruifeng" in exchange for the long-term arms supply of the crossing group. These ships have now arrived in Hong Kong waters, and "Fu Ruifeng" will come forward to hand them over, and then recruit a group of local sailors to drive these ships south to Shengli Harbor.
Of course, the ships brought in from outside are all temporary expedient measures after all, and the main force of future shipping still has to fall on their own shipbuilding capabilities. After a full month of sea trials, the Discovery underwent dozens of ship performance tests, met the design requirements in terms of basic performance, completely surpassed its contemporaries in sea navigation, and was able to transform it into an armed gunboat in wartime in a relatively simple way, of course, it had to be equipped with enough gunners to fully exploit its power. Although some technical problems were also exposed during the sea trials, most of them were minor problems that could be solved through technical improvements. After minor modifications and improvements to the original design and construction plan, the shipping department finalized this type of sailboat and named it "Exploration Class".
Over the next six months, the Victory Port Shipyard will complete the construction of six "Exploratory-class" sailing ships, which, after launching, will be the main transport force of Victory Port to ports in the mainland region. The larger 500-ton sailboat, which is directly based on the "Exploration class", has basically completed its design and is expected to be laid at the Shengli Port shipyard by the end of January at the latest.
In addition to this, the Black Earth Port Shipyard was also officially inaugurated earlier this month. However, due to the gap in technical strength, the Heitu Port Shipyard does not have enough strength to directly start building "exploration-class" sailing ships, and medium-sized ships with a displacement of the same grade as Yazhou Shuizhai Haicang ships will become the www.biquge.info of their practice. The Heitu Port Management Committee will not put the new ships into the Heitu Port to Shengli Port route, the existing fleet has been able to basically meet the freight and migration transportation tasks between the two places, the future destination of these new ships will be located in the north of Hainan Island Lianzhou and Leizhou Prefecture of course, the relevant trade policies also need Gu Kai to apply to the Executive Committee at the end of the year to obtain approval.
In terms of agricultural production, the work of a qiē can be described as "step-by-step". Compared to industry or shipbuilding, agriculture should be considered to have the least difficulties in localizing. The large amount of terra nullius in Sanya saved a lot of trouble in the initial farmland reclamation, and then the crossing group merged these lands into its own name for public ownership, and the immigrants who were accepted in the early stage were almost all poor people who could only rely on the crossing group to make a living, which greatly reduced the possibility of land distribution disputes.
Whether it is a grain crop or a cash crop, what is planted in the farmland, the members of the farm commune can only obey the unified arrangement of the Ministry of Agriculture, and there is no need to say more about the convenience brought by large-scale production to field management and harvest period. Although there is a lack of the addition of various chemical fertilizers, the harvest of food crops is much higher than that of the agricultural level of the same era, coupled with the continuous supply of vegetables, fruits, poultry and livestock, the diet structure and caloric intake of the local people are much better than those in the area under the Ming Dynasty. The reason why many naturalized people are willing to stay in Shengli Harbor is precisely because they are doing the same work, and the Haihan people can eat better and have more filling, and the quality of food is much better than when they used to work as long-term workers in the landlord's house.
In terms of industrial production, there has been a significant increase in productivity after the fuel supply has been secured. At present, the main body of export commodities through the group is a variety of high value-added industrial products, although the output is not high, and there are not many varieties, but the profits are very considerable, and any new product will immediately become the sought after object of all kinds of merchants once it is on the market. As of this month, the total export volume of industrial products has exceeded 400,000 circulating coupons, and the profit margin has exceeded 200%.
This lucrative trade model has also effectively promoted the further development of industrial production, for which almost all industrial production workshops are building and expanding the scale of production. At the same time, hundreds of new people are recruited from among the naturalized residents to enter the factory for training every month, and a group of full-time industrial workers have appeared in the Tiandu Industrial Zone. The development of Tongguò industry has gradually freed the people from the traditional feudal land dependence, which is one of the policies that the crossing group has been implementing.
However, the working class, or more precisely industrial workers, does not make up a high proportion of the population in occupations among the naturalized population, currently less than 15% of the employed naturalized population, and far less than the number of naturalized citizens engaged in agriculture and infrastructure-related industries. It can also be seen that the number of industrial workers is also one of the shortcomings of the industrial development of the group, but the training cycle of industrial workers is relatively long, even greatly exceeding the training period of the militia, three months is enough to train militia who can skillfully use flintlock pistols, but for the training of industrial workers in certain technical positions, three months is just a beginner.
The current situation of low literacy rate has greatly slowed down the training speed of industrial workers, and many technical positions have to be worked by traversers on the front line, which is undoubtedly a great waste of technical strength, and also indirectly affects the improvement of production efficiency.
Tao Donglai's "Report on the Work of the Executive Committee" did not mention much about the military aspect, because the Military Police Department will also have a special work report later, which will discuss in detail the development of military forces and the plan for the coming period. Of course, each department has already prepared its own work reports, but the Military Police Department is a special case, because Qian Tien Dun, who rushed back to Victory Port only yesterday, is said to have brought back the latest movements of the North Vietnamese side, and will openly inform the participants at this plenary meeting.
After reading the report, Tao Donglai did not rush to give up his position to speak, but continued: "...... Some people may think that the information we can get from this report is too sketchy, but it doesn't matter, and there will be more detailed reports on the work of each department in the future. Every count we hear now comes from the results of everyone's hard work, and it is also the foundation for our collective success in the future. I also hope that everyone can listen carefully to the work reports of various departments in the future, because the achievements of these departments do not only represent themselves, but belong to everyone, and the problems and difficulties they face also need to be studied and solved together. ”
Tao Donglai paused for a moment and looked around at the crowd: "Many of the plans we made before and at the beginning of the crossing have been adjusted to a greater or lesser extent according to the actual situation now, and there are even many situations where they have been completely overturned or improvized. What I want to say is that the situation that has developed to today in this situation of crossing the river by feeling the stones is worthy of the pride and pride of each and every one of us!"
After a round of applause, cheers and whistles, Tao Donglai signaled everyone to calm down first, and then Bai Kesi, representing the Ministry of Industry, took the stage and began to make a more detailed work report.