reported by Australia's World Journal;

The new cabinet faces the daunting challenge of integrating the world's largest city, the Red River Valley, which is not only a problem of reallocation of population resources, industry, finance and education, but also a practical problem of playing 1+1 greater than 2 after reintegration......

The British newspaper The Times reported on this;

The proposed urban restructuring of the Ocean Kingdom, which seeks to create a metropolitan area that is even larger than London, has to admit that they have a good chance of accomplishing this daunting goal and bringing big surprises to the world.

reported by the German "Frankfurter Post";

The Red River Valley is ambitiously trying to become the world's largest city, in a shortcut that London does not want to see, and the regeneration of the city will give birth to a huge metropolitan agglomeration of more than 5 million people, leaving London, New York and Paris behind, and this will surely become an indelible record in the history of world urban development.

reported by the New York Times;

Scarred Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan is stumbling to get back on its feet, but the culprit of all this has been surpassed in a new way, and the world-class city of Red River Valley will absorb four surrounding cities to create the world's first megacity with a population of more than 5 million, attracting attention again.

The praise of the news media at home and abroad has made the world pay attention to the Red River Valley metropolitan area, but ignore another dazzling economic star ~ Songjiang City.

After more than 30 years of development, Songjiang's light and heavy industry and financial industry have grown rapidly, surpassing Brisbane, which has long ranked second, from 972,000 in 1899 to 1.86 million in 1910, ranking as the second largest city in the empire.

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Matsue City has pushed Fuso Osaka out of the ranking of the world's top 10 cities, ranking 10th, just over 30,000 people away from Vienna in 9th place with a population of 1.89 million.

As the most complete industrial city in the empire, Songjiang developed light and heavy industries at the same time, with a GDP of 870 million gold in 1910, and a large number of world-class enterprises were born, which deserved to be the vanguard of the imperial industrial city.

The pillar of the city's light industry is the wool industry, which ranks second only to Suzaku City within the empire, and has a wool industry base for European exports, with more than 220 large and small wool spinning enterprises and more than 360,000 related employees.

The pillars of Songjiang heavy industry are the automobile industry, machinery industry and equipment manufacturing industry, which started early, developed on a large scale, advanced technology, high degree of industrial cluster, and involved a wide range, all of which are the labels of Songjiang's heavy industry development and are the world's top advanced industrial cities.

The city's leading industrial enterprises are Australian General Machinery Company, Volkswagen Company, Crown Automobile Company, Australian Heavy Industries, Haichao Power Company, Scott Transmission Company, Goodyear Rubber Company, Fushuntai Plastic Company, Phoenix Bicycle Factory, National Bicycle Factory and other dozens of large enterprises, forming automobiles, tractors, rubber products and bicycle advantage industrial clusters, products are sold at home and abroad, in their respective fields are the world's top leaders.

After more than 30 years of development, Songjiang enterprises have formed the world's leading machinery production capacity, which has produced a strong agglomeration effect, radiated and driven the development of emerging machinery industry in surrounding cities, and the results are gratifying.

Over the years

Relying on the industrial advantages of Songjiang, the adjacent Gusu City has developed a machinery industry led by Xinghui Automobile Factory, Bynum Industrial Company and Pacific Transmission Company, and has become a new industrial city with strong strength.

Hangzhou has developed Guangchang Plastic Company, Dachang Bicycle Factory, Seiko Textile Machinery Factory, Ningbo Fumin Agricultural Machinery Factory, Ningbo Textile Machinery Factory, and Fushunxiang Cement Company.

Fuzhou City has developed a series of medium and large enterprises such as Foton Automobile Factory, Fuzhou Plastic Company, and Fuguangchang Machinery Company, leading the regional economic development and forming an advanced machinery industry circle in the world, with complete industrial categories and obvious industrial agglomeration effect.

Songjiang City has led to the upgrading of surrounding cities, forming the "Songjiang Urban Agglomeration" with Songjiang City as the core, which is completely comparable to the world-famous Ruhr area of Germany, and has a unique competitive advantage.

In addition to the advantages of the automobile, rubber and machinery industries, Songjiang also has an annual output of 7.5 million tons of steel, 20 million tons of coking coal, and 600,000 deadweight tons of ships.

Among the Queensland Crown Territories, the southernmost city of Beilun was promoted to the fourth largest city in the empire, second only to Brisbane, with a population of 1.47 million, and the latest population size in 1910 was 1.3897 million.

Since the reunification of the north and south of Australia, Beilun has been the frontline area of the original confrontation, and has become the navel eye of Australia, an important town connecting the north and south economic zones, and the economic vitality has been fully stimulated, and the economic development has been smooth sailing and soaring.

After nine years of construction, the construction of the Sydney Bay Bridge was finally completed before the advent of the new century, building a traffic artery for Beilun and Sydney, two twin cities in the middle of Australia, enhancing the flow of people and economic exchanges between the two places, and helping each other, and its advantages are becoming increasingly apparent.

Thanks to the superior geographical location of the north and south of Australia, the development of Beilun City is stronger than that of Brisbane, radiating and driving the development of surrounding Wisconsin, Shantou, Wuyang City, Maoming, Edinburgh City, Beihai, Novorossiysk and other cities, forming an urban industrial belt led by "Beilun ~ Sydney".

Beilun is the most important shipbuilding base of the Royal Navy, with several of the most powerful large shipbuilding enterprises within the empire, the construction of the "Somalia" class battleships, the "Queensland" class battleships are the backbone of the Royal Navy, the "Flower Moon" class general purpose cruisers, the "Brave" class fast cruisers, 35,000 tons of free ships, 20,000 tons of ore ships are world-renowned products.

On the basis of light and heavy industry, the electronics industry developed in Beilun City is eye-catching and has become a new economic growth point.

Beilun City now has several 10 electronic enterprises, including a confidential enterprise that produces radio rangefinders, a radio factory that produces the world's best-selling tube radios, and at the same time has a strong production capacity in the field of radio equipment, telephone equipment and AC motors.

In the Queensland Royal Territory, three major economic circles have been formed from north to south, the north is the "Red River Valley ~ Brisbane" economic circle, the central is the "Songjiang Economic Circle", and the south is the "Beilun ~ Sydney Economic Circle", which together constitute the core industrial city belt of the Ocean Empire.

Most of these glittering industrial cities are located in the crown domains, and the huge tax revenues and untold rental revenues generated each year continue to flow into the Royal Home Office, making the royal family extremely financially rich.

Therefore, it has the ability to start the Western War, and after obtaining the Luzon Islands as a direct territory of the royal family, it has invested heavily in construction for many years, so that it has a new look and quickly entered the process of industrialization.

In terms of the corresponding imperial finances, with the rise of a series of cities such as Qingdao, Sydney, Melbourne, Tianshu, Sammarinda, Balikpapan, Semuda, Xi'an, Humen, Seoul, Qiqu, etc., the overall economic plate has expanded again and again, and the fiscal revenue has naturally become richer.

The most vivid example of this is the outbreak of the "Wool War" on September 3, 1908, when the large-scale war mobilization and expeditionary military expenditure amounted to more than one billion gold oceans, and after the imperial treasury and the royal treasury shared this huge additional expenditure, this huge additional expenditure was easily absorbed.

After the victory of the war, it not only won high prestige for the empire, but also won huge war dividends for a five-year large-scale infrastructure construction, laying a solid foundation for the overall economic development of the empire.

After more than four months of preparation, on June 6, 1911, the reorganized Red River Valley City appeared in front of the world with a new look, with a permanent population of more than 5.5 million, ranking first in the world and the largest metropolis in the empire.

In second place is the city of Songjiang, with a total population of 1.86 million, and is also the tenth largest city in the world, after Vienna, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In third place is Brisbane, with a total population of 1.47 million, after 35 years of great development, the city is gradually showing a lack of stamina, facing the competition of many new industrial cities with a population of one million, and its position may not be guaranteed.

The fourth place is Beilun City, with a total population of 1,389,700 and full of development potential.

Ranked fifth is Qingdao, with a total population of 772,000 in 1900 to 1,192,100, and is a dazzling economic star in northern Queensland.

In sixth place is Samarinda in East Kalimantan, where Borneo belongs, with a population of 736,000 in 1900 and 1,118,000 in 1910.

The empire has been investing heavily in the Balikpapan oil field for 14 years, and the influx of hundreds of thousands of construction workers and immigrants has brought great development opportunities to this large Borneo city, which has been repeatedly expanded, and new railways and roads have woven a smooth traffic environment, and construction is surging everywhere.

For almost 20 years

From about 420,000 in 1890 to 736,000 in 1900, the city of Sammarinda jumped from 14th place to the eighth largest city, and 10 years later jumped two places again, proudly ranking the sixth largest city in the empire.

All of this changed, and as for the development of the Balikpapan oil field, the empire's crude oil production went from 6 million barrels to 30 million barrels, and then all the way up to 140 million barrels.

The petrochemical industry cluster has formed a scale, capable of producing hundreds of petrochemical products, and several large-scale chemical plants from Detroit have settled in Sanmarinda, which not only fills the gap in the chemical field, but also makes its production capacity and technical level to a higher level, reaching the world-class level.

The city's specialty products have changed from traditional spices, cane sugar, and cocoa to the chemical industry, and the production capacity of petrochemical equipment has been newly increased, bringing new vitality to the chemical city.

The seventh largest city in the Ocean Empire is Seoul in Mozambique, with a population of 750,000 in 1900 and a population of 1.034 million in 1910, which is the seventh largest city in the empire with a population of more than one million.

Different from the wool textile industry in the empire, the cotton textile industry in Seoul City has formed a unique industrial chain based on the advantages of cotton production in the central highlands of Mozambique, and has made outstanding contributions to the replacement of imported British cotton cloth.

The second Anglo-Boer War in southern Africa was a major opportunity for the development of Seoul City, and the victory of the Wool War was the second major opportunity for the development of Seoul City, expanding the sales market of Mozambican cotton cloth to North and South America, getting rid of the shackles of the British, and ushering in a golden opportunity for development.

In Mozambique, cotton plantations, large and small, are all vigorously increasing the area under cotton cultivation, and textile mills are increasing yarn bloom and recruiting workers, showing a thriving momentum.

10 years is just a moment in history, the Ocean Empire has developed from two million-level cities in the Red River Valley and Brisbane in 1900 to 7 million-level cities today.

In eighth place is the southern metropolis of Melbourne, which was originally Australia's largest city with a population of 691,500 in 1900 and grew to 944,600 in 1910.

With its rich gold resources, thousands of large and small pastures, Victoria's wool textile industry has developed in recent years, easily surpassing the total economic volume of New South Wales, ranking second only to Queensland in Australia.

The state has always been known for its affluence, and it is as glamorous as it once was.

Melbourne and its surrounding areas have a history of colonization for more than 100 years, with many castles and estates, good development foundations, perfect infrastructure conditions, beautiful and charming scenery, and is a concentrated area of aristocratic territory.

Victoria's economy is based on mining and woolling, and with a booming port trade and Melbourne undoubtedly having a share of the pie, the economy is robust.

Ranked ninth is Tianshu City, the urban population has grown from 652,000 to 877,000, the largest city in East Xiangzhou is the vanguard of economic development in the Qingshui River Basin, seven cities and dozens of towns lined up along the Qingshui River, it is an important grain and special agricultural products production area in the empire, with Tianshu City as the leader, the industrial economic components are mainly grain deep processing and tobacco industry, inland river shipbuilding industry, the famous Royal Administrative University is located here.

Sugar mills, cigarette factories, flour mills, food factories, shipyards, agricultural machinery factories, etc., which are based on the advantages of local resources, are limited by regional demand, and have low added value and limited development prospects in addition to cigarette factories.

Therefore, the development of the city has entered a stage of slow growth, and it is indeed stable and stable, but unfortunately it is not explosive.

In the next step, in-depth industrialization and finding the right direction are the major issues to be solved by Tianshu City.

The tenth largest city in China is Qiqu City, which has grown from 648,000 in 1900 to 888,000 today.

As the most important industrial city in Mozambique, Qiqu City has abundant iron ore, aluminum ore, coal and tin ore resources, and established a complete industrial category during the time of Count Wu Mozhou, the general manager of Africa.

With a steel production capacity of 1.5 million tonnes in Mozambique's cities, the city will usher in a new major development opportunity with the implementation of the empire's infrastructure development policy.

Mozambique is also a key area for infrastructure development, with a strong demand for reinforced concrete and various industrial products, all of which can only be provided by the surrounding industrial cities with Qiqu City as the core, and the huge domestic demand will promote the development of industry.

Success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He.

During the Second Anglo-Boer War, the city seized the opportunity to take off for the first time, and the empire's policy of large-scale infrastructure development was the opportunity for the city to take off for the second time.

However, it is necessary to see that limited by the backward and narrow market in Africa, the prospect of the industrial scale of Qiqu City is limited, and the potential is also limited, and due to geographical limitations, it does not have the ability to export industrial products on a large scale, which is the biggest problem in the development of Qiqu City.