Chapter 572 Internal Competition
For several years
During his tenure as the general manager of Africa, Wu Mozhou used his once rich network resources to attract Australian Chinese businessmen to invest in Mozambique, and achieved remarkable results.
One has to marvel at the high entrepreneurial enthusiasm of Chinese businessmen, a group that can bloom brightly with a little sunshine, they are hard-working, conscientious, and have a great passion for the land, as evidenced by the private farms and plantations that bloom everywhere in Mozambique.
Chinese businessmen from Australia follow in the footsteps of successful people and use the wisdom and diligence of Chinese people to support the commercial prosperity of dozens of emerging towns in Mozambique.
A lot of the time
Li Fushou is very emotionally that he was born in this great nation, you only need to open up a piece of heaven for them, then you will get a full garden of spring and fruits.
Looking back at Africa's development achievements in the past three years, the population of the region has exceeded 2 million, and the total number of Chinese immigrants has exceeded one million for the first time, reaching more than 1.05 million, becoming the mainstream ethnic group.
In October 1888, there were more than 896,000 black and indigenous people in the area, and today, minus the 20,000 exported laborers who were about to be handed over to German East Africa and the population who died of illness and other factors, the black indigenous population is less than 850,000, showing a significant downward trend.
Besides
There are more than 27,000 people of white Portuguese descent in the area (including white Portuguese people in Mozambique), and after more than two years of massive loss of white descendants, it has now entered a stable state.
Almost all the people who should go are gone, and the rest have nowhere to go, so they can only get used to accepting the new situation of being mainly Chinese and re-find their social positioning.
In the past three years, more than 100,000 Chinese immigrants have moved to Mozambique spontaneously to Africa to seek opportunities, most of them are immigrants from Australia many years ago, who have worked hard to save a little over the past few years, and resolutely went to Africa for development in order to realize their dream of private farms.
This policy has greatly encouraged Australian immigrants, who are unlikely to have access to enough land here, and with the rapid development of Queensland's economy, land prices have also skyrocketed, and the price of land on private farms in northern Queensland has more than tripled in six years, starting at more than two pounds per acre, and the price is even higher in terms of geographical conditions.
According to the development of private ranches in northern Queensland, private ranches start at a minimum of 150 acres to survive the fierce competition among many private ranches because they require more land for livestock production.
As a result, the Queensland government has raised the barrier to entry by stipulating that private ranches must not be less than 200 acres and cannot be split for other purposes, so as to ensure the healthy and orderly development of livestock production and prevent more investors with no risk tolerance from entering the field.
Judging from the current market, even if it is a private farm starting from 200 acres, in addition to the cost of land purchase and taxes, plus the cost of cattle and sheep herds and necessary means of production, at least 700~800 pounds must be prepared, otherwise it will not be able to play at all.
And so it goes
Investing in private ranches has become the exclusive domain of a few who get rich first, blocking more than 90% of immigrants from this field, and owning their own piece of land has become an unattainable dream.
The preferential policies introduced by the Mozambique colony in Africa have attracted Chinese immigrants with land dreams, who resolutely sold all their assets in Australia and embarked on a long journey to Africa with infinite longing.
After the successful deeds of the pioneers were widely reported in the local newspapers and magazines in Australia, more people were attracted to follow the footsteps of the successful ones, forming a wave of spontaneous migration from Australia to Africa to start a business, which intensified with the fermentation of time.
Relatively
The number of Chinese immigrants from Shangri-La and Borneo, both overseas territories, to Africa is relatively small, because according to the policy, they can get no more than 10 acres of land for free, which meets the needs of many Chinese immigrants, which makes Africa's immigration policy less attractive.
In the east study
The second thing that Tian Shan reported was the preliminary plan for the development of the northern part of Shangri-La Island, which has been formed after years of detailed surveys and in-depth field investigations, and is waiting to be implemented in the next step.
as everyone knows
Covering an area of 880,000 square kilometres, Shangri-La Island is the second largest island in the world, with a central mountain range that stretches from northwest to southeast.
Most of the mountains and plateaus in the Central Mountains are above 4,000 meters above sea level, making it the highest island in the world. The towering mountain range in the west is called the "Snow Mountain Range" because of the year-round snow, and its highest peak is Jaya Peak at 4884 above sea level, which is the highest point in Oceania.
The Central Mountains, which run across the island, divide Shangri-La Island in two, with vast plains, marshes and forests in the southern and northern parts of the central mountain range.
The current development of Shangri-La Island is all located in the southern part of the Central Mountains, including Moresby City, the Qingshui River Basin (Frye Plain), the Big Dipper Towns led by Tianshu City, Longmen City (Koi Mining Bureau), and the Jinshui River Basin, which is in full swing, all of which are located in the southern plains of the Central Mountains.
The only exception is the city of Jayapura, which is located on the northwestern coast of the entire island, across the strait from Paradise Island.
So far, the vigorous development of the Qingshui River Basin and the opening up of the Jinshui River Basin are progressing smoothly, and its total development area is less than 90,000 square kilometers, which is only one-ninth of the entire area of Shangri-La Island, and there are still large areas of undeveloped area.
Among them, the vast northern plains and hilly areas of the Central Mountains are completely blank, waiting to be further developed.
According to the decree of the Red Fort;
Since the transfer of Wu Xuewen, the chief manager of Shangri-La, the original general manager has been revoked and will not be set up in the future.
Shangri-La Island is divided into two parts, the Eastern Province (New Guinea) and the Western Province (West Irian Island), which are directly under the jurisdiction of the Red Fort and are part of the Overseas Territory.
The capital of the Eastern Province is located in Moresby City, including dozens of emerging towns led by Tianshu City in the Qingshui River Basin (Frye Plains), with a total population of 2.37 million.
The capital of the Western Province is located in Jayapura City, under the jurisdiction of Longmen City (Koi Mining Bureau) and more than a dozen new towns in the Jinshui River Basin that are under hot development, with a total population of about 730,000 people, about 13 of the Eastern Province, more than half of the population lives in the two cities of Jayapura and Longmen, the population concentration is relatively high, and the development is not sufficient.
It is in light of this
Not to be outdone, the Western Province of Shangri-La (West Irian Island) was the first to propose a plan to develop the northern plains, and the Eastern Province (New Guinea) was not to be outdone, and then put forward its own ambitious plan for the development of the north.
Count them down
Among the overseas territories to which the Red Fort belongs, Shangri-La Island is divided into the Eastern Province and the Western Province, Borneo is divided into East Kalimantan Province, South Kalimantan Province, Central Kalimantan Province, and West Kalimantan Province (including the original historical North Kalimantan Province), and Mozambique is divided into 5 provincial administrative agencies in the Central Province, South Province, North Province, Southwest Province and Northwest Province, plus Somali Province, all of which add up to exactly 12 overseas provinces.
Guinea is a special zone, and Oahu and Saipan are special zones, which are not yet eligible for a separate provincial administrative region, and together with the Sulawesi Islands, which is a trust territory, basically covers the overseas power of the Red Fort.
As for the Okinawa Marine District and the Far East Fleet, they are different from the above-mentioned overseas territories. The land belongs to the concession and has a total lease period of 99 years, with the right of first refusal at the expiration of the lease and cannot be compared.
Eleven of the 12 overseas provincial-level administrative agencies were born in the Secretariat, known as the "stronghold of emerging political powers", and were once colleagues who knew their roots well, and they were fiercely competing with each other, and they all wanted to make more outstanding achievements.
For these high-ranking officials, being able to be released as a provincial senior member represents a new starting point in their political life, and what they have done in this post has a bearing on whether it is possible to enter the center in the future, and make further progress.
Among the 12 overseas high-ranking officials, the only exception is Li Fushan, a high-ranking official of Shangri-La's Eastern Province, who is a native of Lijiabao in Gusu Prefecture, a member of the Li family who grew up all the way from the mayor of Moresby, and is a distant uncle and brother of the same class as the earl.
These overseas high-ranking officials who were born in the Secretariat are holding their breath of breath with each other, competing for projects, resources, and supporting policies, striving to achieve outstanding results in development and live up to the ardent hopes of the Earl.
The development of overseas provinces is different from that of Australia, and Red Fort invests more than 80% of its resources in the construction of Australia's mainland, leaving less than 20% of the resources to the 12 overseas provinces, which is a basic policy that cannot be changed.
For them, the limited cake needs to be shared, and whoever can take a little more means a position ahead, which undoubtedly makes the competition more intense.
No overseas official is foolish enough to wrestle with the local industrial powerhouses, and in fact they can't compete with each other, not even Li Fushan, a senior official in eastern Shangri-La.
In all overseas provinces
The Eastern Province of Shangri-La, because it was the first to be developed, is far ahead, ranking first in terms of population, economic development, urban size, farmland and infrastructure perfection, and it is extremely difficult to catch up.
Other than that, everyone's starting point is pretty much the same.
The large-scale introduction of Chinese immigrants in Borneo provinces, the Most Favored Land Grant Act launched by the African Governor-General, and the in-depth development of the northern plains launched by Shangri-La's Western and Eastern Provinces are all powerful measures to compete for resources.
As for the province of Somalia, they have not been idle, their forces have invaded the Eritrean region on the Red Sea coast, taken control of the Assab and Ede regions on the northern shore of the Red Sea near the island of Great Hanesh, and shouted the loud slogan "Rebuild the city of Xi'an".
For more than five years
Xi'an has developed into an important commercial port city on the coast of the Horn of East Africa with a total population of more than 160,000.
These internal healthy competitions are exactly what Red Fort wants to see, as a huge emerging power in the South Pacific, internal competition allows it to always maintain high vitality and aggressiveness, and promote social progress.