Chapter 11: Advancing into East Africa

The Chinese government used the reputation it had accumulated to hold talks with the four countries, demarcate a piece of land in the saline-alkali land or tidal flats of the coastal uninhabited area, build a desalination plant, and let the agricultural expert group, the medical and health team, the construction engineering team, and the security brigade of four teams to enter the planned areas of the four countries to carry out work.

Shikoku's hydropower facilities are very backward, and before the desalination plant is put into operation, the accompanying engineering team has to renovate the water and power supply infrastructure of the nearest city, and the agricultural expert group is the busiest, because the local cultivation level is far below the world average, and the agricultural experts have to conduct a detailed and rigorous survey of the arable land around the plant.

Analysis of soil composition, improvement of grain seeds, rice, corn, wheat, soybeans, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other food crops under the guidance of agricultural experts are selected for large-scale planting in the coming year.

The medical and health conditions were so poor that the medical team had to work more than 12 hours a day, and it was only when the second group of doctors and nurses arrived that the situation improved.

A year later, a health center centered on a desalination plant was established, and a company was registered in the local area, with a feed factory, a fertilizer factory, and a seed station, and the hydropower engineering team was completed.

The presidents of Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique publicly praised the Chinese government's help and said that the friendship between the two countries would last for a long time. At the same time, the three governments want to work with the Chinese government to develop their own resources and increase investment to make their economies prosperous. If a coastal country wants to trade with other countries, having a deep-water port is the minimum condition, and the poorest Mozambican government has nothing, so the generous Chinese representative waved his hand: "We will build the seaport, but we must allow our naval fleet to settle in." ”

In this way, the Chinese side has its first naval base in the Indian Ocean.

In Somalia, due to constant war, piracy and political instability, the government is divided into three factions attacking each other. China's development zones in central and southern China have received strong support from local governments and parties in the south, who want to develop the economy first and win the hearts and minds of the people, and then gradually unify the country.

100 kilometers northwest of the development zone is a desert of more than 20,000 square kilometers, and the land between the two places is basically in a barren state, with only a few villages and hundreds of families waiting there, and you can have as much land as you want. Moreover, Somalia is rich in resources, most of them are unexplored, the industrial base is almost zero, agricultural science and technology are very weak, and medical and health care is even more miserable, and it is not even possible to drink a sip of clean water.

When China's four development zones gained a firm foothold in the four East African countries, 28 domestic fishing companies came here to pan for gold, and after registering with each country, they carried out marine fishing operations, and the ships were accompanied by four freshly launched nuclear-powered cruiser task forces, and from time to time an aircraft carrier fleet came to fight soy sauce.

Pakistan's navy, with the help of the Chinese government, has regained possession of 20 warships, large and small, although second-hand, but at least it has face.

The Yemeni government, under domestic pressure, agreed to China's establishment of a development zone along its southern coast, allowing the Chinese naval fleet to dock and resupply its fleet ashore, making it the most powerful navy in the Indian Ocean.