Chapter 733 Economic Disparities

Today, in the whole of Mozambique, there are three important cities dominated by industry, one is the central commercial city of Seoul, which is dominated by cotton textile industry and supplemented by dried fruit trade, with a total population of 490,000, which is the largest city deservedly.

One is Qiquwan City, a comprehensive heavy industry city established by relying on the abundant iron ore, coal, aluminum ore and tin ore resources in the mountainous area, with a total urban population of 466,000 people, making it the second largest city in the region.

The city of Qiquwan has steel mills, inland shipyards, special metal smelters, agricultural tool factories, various leather processing factories and handicraft workshops, the industrial categories are small and complete, supplying most of the steel and leather products in Mozambique, the rails produced by the steel mills, marine and construction steel plates, steel bars have become important materials to support the construction of Mozambique.

The last one is Malawi City, which is located at the starting point of the Circum-Malawi Railway, more than 100 kilometers south through the mountainous area is Qiquwan City, there is a railway connection between the two cities, the traffic is very developed, and it is an important hub position for the north-south connection.

Malawi City faces a vast pastoral area, has the only large-scale woolen mill in Mozambique, has rich lake fishery resources, developed food processing industry, and is a light industry city focusing on textile and agricultural product processing, with an urban population of 372,000.

It is the most populous and economically developed city among the 12 cities around Lake Malawi, and it is also the capital of Malawi.

Throughout the region of Mozambique

The 36 towns originally proposed by the African Governor are now quite large, 12 of which are located in the most economically developed state of Malawi, and the most dazzling ones are the cities of Qiquwan and Malawi, which have developed into the second and third largest cities in Mozambique.

Most of the other cities and towns are dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, and the population of the towns varies from more than 100,000 to tens of thousands.

Besides

With the deepening of African colonization and the extension of railways and highways, new towns have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and there are already hundreds of large and small ones, like stars lighting up the galaxy, blooming everywhere in the vast and fertile land of Mozambique, bearing fruitful fruits.

Over the years, more than 90% of the energy of the African governor has been concentrated in the economic development of Mozambique, and the mileage of new roads has reached 110,000 kilometers, including about 103,400 kilometers of gravel roads and more than 6,900 kilometers of asphalt paved roads.

The new railway mileage is 3,760 kilometers, the inland river navigation mileage is 4,100 kilometers, the region has developed more than 1,700 inland river vessels of various types (displacement ranging from 60 tons to 500 tons, limited to inland river navigation), more than 270 fishing boats (mainly located in the Lake Malawi area, all of which are small and medium-sized fishing boats below 200 tons), and the transportation industry has been greatly developed, communicating the geographical advantages of the east, west, north and south, and realizing the effective allocation of resources.

Taking the important cash crop cotton as an example, the important cotton producing areas of the western states and the northwestern states, a large amount of cotton produced by manual picking, sent to the local cotton ginning factory, rolled into a single weight of 220~230 pounds of square cotton bales, and then transported to the local railway station, through the railway line to the cotton textile industry center Seoul City, where it is spun into cotton yarn, then woven into cloth, and finally through printing and dyeing, garment making and other processes into various clothes and textiles, loaded on ships and sold at home and abroad.

Ten years on

More than 700 new bridges of various kinds have been built, and more than 1,300 kilometers of backbone embankments of the Zambezi River have been built, and the top of the embankment is the spacious and flat Zambezi Avenue, which extends from the eastern coast to the central Manica Plateau, all the way unimpeded.

The construction of backbone highways such as Zambezi Avenue, Central Avenue, Southern Avenue and Malawi Avenue, together with the feeder roads that have been under construction for many years, has greatly facilitated inter-regional transportation and logistics, and has played an important role in promoting regional economic development.

Over the years, Mozambique has started from scratch in terms of medical and educational health, thanks to the strong support of Australia, which has sent many medical workers to Africa to build and improve local hospitals and schools.

Today

There are 44 hospitals of various sizes in Mozambique, with more than one hospital and hundreds of traditional Chinese medicine clinics in almost every major city, covering all towns with a population of more than 1,000 people.

There are a total of 1.81 million children aged 0~9 years old in the region, showing a clear pyramid structure, and the younger the age, the larger the number, showing a geometric exponential expansion trend.

Today, children over the age of 7 are of school age.

As a result, school education is booming in various cities, public schools and private schools are emerging, and most of the teachers are supported by local Australians, which is not a long-term solution after all.

Therefore, with the government's funding, the Seoul Institute of Education is in the process of being organized, and it is expected to be able to recruit students next year, so that local teachers can be trained in Mozambique.

The Seoul Medical College and the College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry have been put on the government's agenda, and funds will be allocated to build a complete local education system in the next few years.

By the end of July 1896

The work of immigrating to Madagascar has just begun, and the initial scale is thousands of people per year, plus the two towns operated by the African Expeditionary Force on the island for many years, the total number of Chinese immigrants is about 2~30,000, which is not yet large-scale.

The most surprising is the Somali state, a region of which Africa's governor has developed a remarkable state of its own with little attention and no resources.

Statistics show;

The state's per capita income level is comparable to the most developed metropolis in Australia, and even a little higher, with an average annual income of 233 silver dollars, equivalent to 11 pounds and 13 shillings, in 1895, still growing at a rate of 17% per annum.

Somalia is also the region where there is no serious contradiction in the ratio of men to women in the entire oceanic kingdom, with 1.347 wives per capita, and if you subtract the new immigrants each year, then about 3 out of 10 men in Somalia have more than two wives.

The region is also the state with the highest proportion of newborn population, with 276,000 children aged 0~5 and nearly 390,000 children under the age of 10 in the total population of 1.376 million (excluding black Aborigines), which is quite an astonishing ratio.

The per capita income in Somalia is as high as £11.13 a year, and if you take into account the disproportionately high proportion of children under the age of 10 in the region, which lowers the per capita income level, and there is also a large amount of grey income, the real income level is even higher.

Comparing only public data, it is about three times the annual per capita income of the Mozambican states, which is also the lowest annual per capita income in the Ocean Kingdom.

There are two main reasons for the low per capita income in Mozambique, one is the short development time, the low accumulation, and the fact that in recent years the new immigrants are still in the early stages of repaying their migrant loans, building houses and reclaiming land, and they have less expenditure for living and consumption.

Therefore, on the other hand, it has affected the overall market prosperity, and it will take time.

The second factor is that Mozambique is dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, with little industrial and mining components, and the surrounding African countries are extremely poor, and the market is almost equal to zero, which affects the overall economic development.