Among them, one of the most fierce brave generals is Songjiang City, a dazzling new star in the development of industrial economy, which has taken a big step forward in the past few years, which has simply shocked the front teeth of many brother towns.

According to statistics in November 1880, the little-known Songjiang Town had a population of 75,000, ranking 7th in the top ten towns in Australia at that time, and it did not even enter the top 10 in the previous year.

The shoe is on the other foot

Thanks to the unique power and geographical advantages of the development industry, there are almost no bottlenecks in the rapid development of Songjiang City, and in recent years, large-scale industrial projects have settled in the city every quarter, creating a large number of jobs and social demand.

Count them down

Only one Honghe Woolen General Factory, in Songjiang City, has been built and put into operation four wool spinning factories with a scale of more than 10,000 people, the largest wool spinning factory No. 4 has 26,000 employees, ranking second among the 11 wool spinning factories, second only to the oldest wool spinning factory in Zhuque City.

The so-called: one trick to eat all over the world.

With its large scale, the Songjiang Reservoir has abundant power and energy advantages, and is the best choice for the development of light and heavy industries.

Queensland's most powerful conglomerates have made significant investments in Songjiang Town, much larger than other regions.

Honghe Valley Industrial Corporation has built the first wool deep processing industrial base for the world market in Songjiang City, Songjiang Base of Hongshan Iron and Steel General Plant, Songjiang Base of Hongshan Coking Coal Plant, Songjiang Base of General Machinery Company, Goodyear Rubber Company, Phoenix Bicycle Company and other large and medium-sized enterprises have settled here, in addition to thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises.

These include seven cement factories, hundreds of various food processing plants, meat processing plants, dozens of large and small shipyards, various mechanical processing plants, tanneries, and many more handicraft workshops, and the development of social commerce and service industries, which began to take shape as a metropolis.

It is based on this that Songjiang City creates a large number of jobs every year.

In 1883, after Suzaku City and Matsue City jointly surpassed Sydney to become the fourth and fifth largest cities in Australia, in 1883, Matsue Town surpassed Suzaku City with an unrivaled rapid growth trend, with a total population of 369,000, and jumped to the fourth largest city in Australia.

The dazzling performance of Songjiang City overshadowed all the brother towns, and Beilun City, which was chasing all the way behind the buttocks, suffered a blow of 10,000 points, and saw that Songjiang City was running faster and faster, Beilun City silently revised its development goals, and the new slogan was "Learn from the development experience of the four divine beasts, practice hard internal skills, and strive to fly together in the new five-year plan and develop into a leader in the shining southern region."

The four divine beasts are the four old powerhouses around the Red River Valley, the four cities of Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu, which are examples for learning and targets for the little elder towns in the south.

Beilun City originally had a very high spirit, and was only willing to compete with Songjiang City.

But you are developing and others are also developing, Beilun City is running fast, but Songjiang City has taken off, and has been brutally beaten by reality, Beilun City has to give up the original unrealistic goal, and never mention Songjiang City again, who mentions and who is in a hurry!

The fifth largest city in Australia belongs to Suzaku City, with a population of 348,100 people, and in just over a year, it has left the stagnant Sydney behind.

Suzaku is an old light industrial city, the most dazzling satellite city around the Red River Valley, the first suburban city, Suzaku is the location of woolen mills and many light industrial zones, in 1880 the population reached 170,000, it took only three years to achieve a doubling of the population, and various economic indicators are in the forefront.

Of course, it is not easy to compare with the freak of unconventional development like Matsue City, but among the towns in the Earl's domain, Suzaku City is undoubtedly one of the top three existences, and it has been a veteran economic honor student for many years.

Wool Spinning Factory No. 1, Wool Spinning Factory No. 2 and Wool Spinning Factory No. 3 are the pillar enterprises of Zhuque City, and the scale has been repeatedly expanded, among which the No. 1 Wool Spinning Factory ranks first in the wool spinning industry with 31,000 employees, and the technical level and per capita contribution to profits and taxes are also in the forefront.

The School of Textiles set up by Red River Valley University is located in Suzaku City, where the key research project "Cashmere Textile Complete Equipment" is also located, and hundreds of engineers and technicians are working day and night to develop equipment.

Once this major package is successfully developed, it will enable Queensland to win the crown of the textile industry and fully enter the high-end market, from which it will obtain incredibly high profits.

New city rankings

Sydney fell two places from fourth place to sixth place, with a slight increase in population size to 298,000 from 285,000 three years ago, largely due to natural population growth.

In the past three years, Sydney has lost more than 46,000 people, especially the Chinese population, most of whom have gone to Beilun on the other side.

A good hand of cards is played poorly, which can be said to be a vivid portrayal of Sydney.

Today, with the rapid development of Queensland's cities, Sydney is like a boat sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat.

New South Wales is not as rich as Victoria's rich gold resources, and private ranches, the most important component of the economy, account for more than 70% of the share, and are very dependent on northern wool spinning enterprises.

In 1880, 1881, 1882 for three consecutive years, the purchase price and sales of wool were artificially suppressed, resulting in a depression in the New South Wales market, a severe economic downturn, and a significant decline in the standard of living of the population, in stark contrast to the thriving northern towns.

Even after a strong rebound in wool prices in 1883, Sydney's battered economy was still faltering.

Compare it to

Beilun City, across the bay of Sydney, has expanded at an astonishing rate, with a population of only 42,300 in the last census, ranking 9th.

In just a few years, Beilun has developed into an important industrial town that is not inferior to Sydney, with a population of 276,000 people, ranking as the seventh largest city in Australia, and has risen two places in three years.

If there is no weird guy like Songjiang Town, if the Sydney Bay Bridge can be built as soon as possible, if there is no tense hostile atmosphere on both sides of Sydney Bay, if the Earl pays a little more attention......

On the front line of the confrontation between the north and the south, the development of Beilun City has been disturbed by many unexpected factors, and it has not been peaceful along the way, and there are many regrettable regrets.

Although the dazzling light is overshadowed by Songjiang City, it cannot be denied that Beilun City's outstanding achievements, reasonable planning, high standards of urban construction, beautiful and exotic communities, and equal and free working environment have formed a strong attraction to Sydney residents, including white people.

Although not comparable to Songjiang, Beilun is still one of the economic stars of the north, which clearly irritates the stubborn white conservatives.

There is a kind of person who can't see that others are better than himself, and the white conservatives in Sydney are such people.

A series of policies that provoked personal anger, such as the expulsion of members of the Zhi Gong Party, the exclusion and discrimination of ethnic Chinese, the connivance of rioters to commit murder and injury, and the obstruction of major construction projects, have pushed New South Wales to the brink of secession.

Sydney is still running wild on the road to death, and the four horses can't turn back.

The eighth largest city in Australia is Qinglong City, with a population that grew from 148,000 in 1880 to 271,000 at the end of 1883.

Qinglong City has the main campus of Red River Valley University, with 23,400 teachers and students, and more than 20 well-known high-quality middle schools from the first affiliated middle school to the sixteenth affiliated middle school, St. Mary's Middle School, Qinglong Middle School, Yuedong Middle School, Liangguang Middle School, etc., with more than 670,000 teachers and students.

Relying on the external scholars and professors of Red River Valley University, Qinglong City has developed a series of scientific research laboratories serving light industry and heavy industry, and established more than a dozen key laboratories, covering physics, chemistry, communications, special steel, textile equipment research, coal chemical industry, shipbuilding, diesel engine, steam engine, power machinery and other scientific research fields, and gradually formed its own echelon of scientific research force.

Over time, Qinglong City will surely occupy an important position with its unique advantages.

This can be seen from the statistics

The populations of Beilun and Qinglong are 276,000 and 271,000 respectively, which is 298,000 from the sixth-ranked Sydney City, which is less than 20,000 or 30,000, and has a high probability of surpassing it in the first half of 1884.

Then you will have some fun.

Sydney, the second-largest metropolis in Australia, slipped directly to 8th place, which was simply a "bang" slap in the face.

And that's not all, the ninth and 10th largest cities have also reached more than 200,000 people, and are likely to pose a tough challenge to Sydney in the next two years.

The number of cities in the column has been completed, and the ninth is the most important industrial city, Baihu City, whose population has grown from 62,300 to 221,000, but the ranking of city location has dropped by one place, from the original 8th to 9th.

However, Baihu City soon ushered in a new development opportunity, the development and construction of the Koi Long Gold Mine is the No. 1 project of Tianzi, in which the copper smelting center and mint are all located in this heavy industry base, which will bring tens of thousands of jobs and greater development opportunities.

If we firmly grasp this opportunity, as an old heavy industry city, Baihu City is expected to usher in a new round of development.

In terms of potential, it is not inferior to Songjiang City, which is now in the limelight.

After all, in this era, copper smelting center enterprises are equivalent to printing money, whether it is the production of expensive copper machinery parts, ship parts, mining accessories and military parts, or direct casting and rolling copper pennies, all of which are special industries with amazing profit margins.

It's not nice to say

The manufactured copper bowls, copper candlesticks, copper ornaments, widely used copper pipes, copper plates, copper rods, copper handles, copper sculptures, copper buttons and other sub-industries can create amazing profits and employment opportunities.

Brass is known as "navy brass", from bullets and shells to copper plates that wrap sail warships, from copper seals of steam engines to wear parts, the role is almost everywhere, especially the special brass added to the alloy is in strong demand, how much is sold, and the profit is amazing.

All this is a big opportunity brought by the Koi copper-gold mine to the White Tiger.

Australia's 10th largest city is Cairns, in northern Queensland, with a population of 133,200, and thanks to the second phase of development priorities in the north, the city is on the fast track and is expected to become the leader of the north.

After taking stock of the top ten cities in Australia as of the end of 1883, it is obvious that the scale of the city has expanded rapidly, the standard of shortlisted cities has doubled, and the industry and population have further gathered in Queensland, forming an increasingly powerful adsorption effect.

Compared with the statistics in November 1880, the statistics released in February 1884, with a deadline of December 31, 1883, are more accurate, authoritative and convincing, and can fully reflect the current urban pattern and economic center of gravity of Australia.

In the last statistics, none of the top ten cities in Australia has a scale of more than 500,000 people, and the population of Red River Valley, which ranks first, is only 485,100.

Three years later

With 761,200 and 555,100 people respectively, the Red River Valley and Brisbane surpassed the 500,000 population mark, quickly leaving Melbourne, which ranked third, with 413,500 people, greatly raising the urban ceiling level of Australian metropolises and catching up with the level of major metropolitan cities in Europe and the United States.

meanwhile

The threshold for being shortlisted in the top ten cities in Australia is also rising, and the 10th largest city in November 1880 is Xuanwu City, with a population of only 33,000.

Today, Cairns, the 10th largest city, has a population of 133,200, a fourfold increase in the threshold, and a large number of fast-growing towns are catching up, and the competition is becoming increasingly fierce.

It reflects the current thriving economic situation in the Red River Valley and the whole of Queensland, which has changed the urban pattern and economic distribution of the whole of Australia, and will have a profound impact on the future.