Ten years have passed

The top ten cities have undergone new changes, including Songjiang City, which surpasses Brisbane, the second oldest city in 10,000 years, and is facing the mark of the city's total population of 2 million with the attitude of an industrial vanguard, and continuously improving its comprehensive strength in all aspects.

There are also emerging industrial cities such as Beilun, Qingdao and Sanmarinda, which surpass strong competitors by virtue of their respective advantages, and advance 1~3 places in the city rankings.

There are also Tianshu, Qiqu and other cities have ushered in the bottleneck of economic development, limited by their own factors, the next development potential is limited, the city ranking has declined, and has entered a period of slow growth.

Among the 11~20 cities in the empire, there is a large wave of fast-catching cities that are catching up, including Sydney, Manila, Gusu, Humen, Balikpapan, Hangzhou, these emerging industrial cities with unique advantages, and listen to them one by one.

In 11th place is Sydney, whose population grew from 624,000 in 1900 to 837,000 in 1910, making this beautiful seaside city even more prosperous.

This is a once-sunken and phoenix-nirvana city, thanks to the good foundation of animal husbandry production in New South Wales, and the excellent geographical location connecting the north and south, the development has been smooth sailing over the years.

Sydney's pillar industries are ranching, port, education, finance and trade, and some light industrial enterprises, plus the headquarters of the Pacific Alliance is located here, and the new Mineral Futures Exchange of the Empire is also located here, making the city even more vibrant.

Similar to Melbourne, Sydney is surrounded by a large number of new aristocrats, castles, estates, ranches, and wealth, so there is no shortage of motivation for development.

It is precisely because of the high-end needs of the emerging aristocratic groups that Sydney's financial, legal and service industries are developed, with hundreds of churches, Taoist temples, temples, various large theaters, nightclubs, opera houses, and Qinglou wine shops.

The urban architecture here has the British Victorian style, the French neo-romantic style, the Italian Mediterranean architectural style, and the high-end atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty architectural style, revealing a luxurious style inside and out.

It is a city with commerce, education, service and port trade as its core industries, with the tertiary industry accounting for more than 60% of the economic output, animal husbandry accounting for 20%, and industry accounting for less than 10% of the economic share.

Therefore, Sydney can form a strong synergy with the city of Beilun on the other side of the bay, and the economy is highly complementary.

In twelfth place is the city of Humen, Somali Prefecture, whose population has grown from 631,000 in 1900 to 806,000 in 1910, which is one place higher than ten years ago, and is the brightest star city on the Red Sea coast.

Over the past 10 years, Humen has received a large number of immigrants from Italy, Spain, France and other countries bordering the Mediterranean, with a total of more than 60,000 people, making it the city with the largest population of white immigrants.

The reason for such a strong attraction is that Humen City has an open and inclusive social environment, a beautiful and clean urban style, a strong growth economy and ubiquitous opportunities for wealth, which bring infinite possibilities.

The headquarters of the Somali merchant gang at home and abroad is located in Humen City, which has more than a dozen regional banks, the largest mercenary association in Europe, Asia and Africa, and the largest entrepot in Africa, with an astonishing number of warehouses.

Somali businessmen deal in a wide variety of goods, and in addition to the cigarette industry, which is now a large size, the traditional canning industry has also been renewed.

There are Europeans' favorite canned tuna, braised thornless fish, canned seafood mushrooms, canned soybeans, and canned braised beef, which makes the scale of Humen's marine fishing industry continue to grow. Moreover, relying on the large orchard production base in Manila, new canned fruit products have been developed, which are also sold well in Europe and Africa.

Somali foreign trade businessmen deal in all the products of the empire, from all kinds of AC motor and power station equipment, series of diesel engines to automobiles, bicycles, dealing in Mozambican frozen beef and mutton, leather products, cashew nuts, almonds and other dried fruits, etc.

Somali businessmen uphold the spirit of being good at pioneering and taking risks, and the main sales markets are the big European markets.

The large number of southern European immigrants in Humen played an important role in this process, helping to open up markets in Spain, Portugal, Italy and the Balkans, and greatly expanding the city's international development space.

Compared with Xi'an, which is located in the eastern Djibouti region, due to its location in a desert oasis, the lack of fresh water resources, the limited carrying capacity of land and population, and the hot climate, it has developed to a population of nearly 500,000.

Humen City is different, it is located in the plateau area with an average altitude of 800~1000 meters, bordering the Red Sea coast, the perennial maximum temperature does not exceed 24 degrees, the average annual precipitation is 800~1100 mm, the hinterland has a vast pasture, and the fresh water resources are abundant.

As long as the city has enough industrial and commercial bearing, there is no upper limit for development, and because of the pleasant environment, higher salary standards, prosperous and fair economic environment, and perfect urban facilities, it has attracted the floating population from surrounding cities to settle down, buy homes, and develop more and more prosperously.

This is an emerging international business city, which has strongly driven the development of cities such as Ede City, which is dominated by shipbuilding, and Asab, which is mainly agriculture and animal husbandry, and has also promoted the prosperity of Xi'an City in the Djibouti region.

Ranking 13th is Gusu City, with a population of 773,000 people, three places higher than 10 years ago, which is an emerging industrial city in the Songjiang Economic Circle, and the machinery industry led by Xinghui Automobile Factory, Bynum Industrial Company, and Pacific Transmission Company is the pillar industry of the city.

Among them, Xinghui Automobile Factory is the third large-scale automobile complex in the world with an annual output of 100,000 units, and 12,000 heavy-duty off-road trucks in the military order have accompanied the soldiers of the Vietnamese Expeditionary Force to gallop in North America and Argentina, laying a huge reputation.

Nowadays, military orders from the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Brazil, Chile and other countries have come one after another, which has further consolidated the position of the leading military truck of Xinghui Automobile Factory, and its 6~10 ton heavy-duty off-road trucks are favored and are the preferred equipment for artillery tractors in all countries around the world.

The Xinghui Automobile Plant alone employs 137,000 people, a scale that is expanding rapidly with the commissioning of the new modern plant.

Benefiting from the advantages of early start, large scale and full competition in the development of the automobile industry of Ocean Empire, Bynum Industries and Pacific Transmission are also leaders in their respective fields, and their strength is very strong.

Relying on these three large-scale automobile equipment enterprises, Gusu City has developed hundreds of large-scale supporting enterprises, not only for the local automobile factory, but also for Songjiang General Machinery Company, Volkswagen Factory, BMW Automobile Factory and other top enterprises, forming a complete automobile supporting industry chain.

The 14th place is the emerging oil city Balikpapan, with a population of 721,500, which is another trick and a city that eats all over the world, mainly in the petrochemical and inorganic chemical industries, and has entered the top of the city list by virtue of its resource advantages.

In 15th place is Manila, with a population of 707,000, after 13 years of continuous investment by the Royal Home Office, Manila has fully presented the appearance of a metropolis today, with high-rise buildings, straight and spacious roads, tall street trees and purple and red bushes dotted in between, coconut trees swaying, unique southern style.

The headquarters of the Royal Navy's Pacific Fleet is located here, which is also the most powerful fleet of the Royal Navy, with 16 main battleships, the Blue Dragon, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, the Xuanwu, four 20,000-ton heavy cruisers and numerous large cruisers, accounting for more than 6% of the entire Royal Navy's strength.

The Royal Navy and its families in Manila alone numbered more than 170,000 people, a group with considerable spending power, with incomes generally in the middle class, and a small number of senior officers in the upper echelons.

As the home port of the Royal Pacific Fleet, the sailors of the Navy bought land and settled a home in Manila, which was a sure thing, from housing and travel to daily consumption, which greatly promoted the urban development of Manila.

After the victory in the "Wool War".

Manila is home to several large shipyards with advanced technology and equipment dismantled from the Great Lakes region, in addition to supporting the construction of four 50,000-ton large shipyards, which are major infrastructure projects of Manila Shipbuilding Group, a large enterprise controlled by the Royal Fund, with an investment of up to 23 million gold oceans.

Each 50,000-ton large ship is a large-scale ship production line, with complete supporting workshops, cranes, cranes and various ship component processing equipment, riveting and welding equipment, dismantling and bending equipment, while having the ability to repair large military ships, it is mainly used to produce 35,000 tons of free ships and bulk carriers, and has the ability to develop more than 40,000 tons of ship production capacity.

Due to the unique archipelago environment of the Philippine archipelago, and the eight princes of the royal family are divided here, the main means of transportation between the islands is passenger ferries, the inter-regional routes are as short as 20 or 30 kilometers, 15,600 kilometers long, and there are more than 150 regular passenger ferry flights of various kinds, which are densely scattered between the islands.

In addition to guests, freighters are also an important means of transportation, taking on the important task of transshipment of goods between the islands.

As a result, there is a high demand for inshore cargo ships carrying passenger ships carrying passengers ranging from 60 to 500 passengers, with cargo capacities ranging from 200 to 5,000 tons, which has also contributed to the boom in Manila's shipbuilding industry.

Due to its historical importance, the ancient city of Manila will have great potential for development in the future, which will take time to be discovered.

Ranked 16th, is also part of the Songjiang Economic Circle of Hangzhou, the urban population of 701,100 people, its development strategy is the same as Gusu City, but also closely follow the pace of Songjiang's industrial development, the formation of the "product" shape of the wings of the situation.

Guangchang Plastic Company, Dachang Bicycle Factory, Seiko Textile Machinery Factory, Bailing Daily Chemical Factory, and Fudatong Cement Company are all large-scale listed companies with an active private economy and an astonishing number of small and medium-sized enterprises, which are an indispensable and important part of the Songjiang Economic Circle.

At No. 17 is the northern city of Malawi in Mozambique, the second largest "cotton textile city" in the empire after Seoul, with a population that has grown steadily from 565,000 a decade ago to 710,000 today.

After the empire opened up the markets in North and South America, Malawi also had an opportunity for the development of the cotton textile industry.

As the central city of Mozambique's northern region, a number of colleges and universities led by the African School of Administration, the Malawi Textile Institute, the Mozambican Medical College, and the Malawi Industrial College have been established successively, injecting new impetus into the city's development.

As a light industrial city dominated by textiles and leather processing, Malawi's future development is better than that of its neighbor Qiqu, and even if Africa is barren, people always have to wear clothes, and after freeing themselves from the shackles imposed by the British, Mozambican cotton can participate in the fair competition in the world.

Elsewhere, South Africa is a big market.

Compared with British woven cotton cloth, Mozambican cotton cloth with high quality and low price saves a lot of shipping costs in the first place, which makes him more competitive in price.