April 1892.

First Town City.

"There are now more than 5,000 town-level administrative units in China, and they generally contain about five or six villages, as well as a subdistrict, with a size ranging from a few thousand to nearly 10,000 people." said Gers, director of the National Bureau of Statistics.

East Africa is affected by immigration, and in fact, the local population is relatively concentrated, one is that the population of land reclamation is small, and it will definitely not work.

The second is that the nature and society of early East Africa are harsh, and the indigenous and wild beasts will complete the threat to East African immigrants, so the size of the village will not be too small, like the kind of village with only a dozen people, or even a few people, does not exist in East Africa, at least a few hundred people, and a large village can even have a thousand people.

In addition, the terrain of East Africa is dominated by plateaus, and on the whole, the terrain of the country is relatively flat and open, so that there will not be too many small mountain villages limited by the terrain.

In addition, in order to facilitate management, the East African government will also take the initiative to concentrate the population in one place, and the flow of population in East Africa is mainly led by the government.

However, the scale of East Africa's villages and towns is not too large, and every year, the population of East Africa is mainly supported by policies, and then disperses to inland or undeveloped areas, and then forms new villages.

As a result, the natural population growth rate in the eastern region is relatively high, but the actual number of people living in it is not too large, because people are constantly moving out to live or work in new areas.

Ernst said: "The countryside is the main population gathering place in East Africa, and there are about 40 million people living in the countryside in China, accounting for about eighty percent of the country, so to boost the rural economy, we should take the town as the core and drive the local economic development." ”

"To boost the rural economy, we should start with public resources such as educational resources, which can be done sooner rather than later, and universities can be concentrated in cities, but there is no need for primary and secondary education."

"In addition, the same is true for medical resources, we lack modern medical talents, so we can set up traditional Chinese medicine clinics in the countryside, and the limited medical resources are concentrated above the municipal level."

In East Africa, there is no administrative concept of a county, but this is only a literal one, and in fact many cities are counties, with the exception of the city where the provincial capital is located.

The population of East Africa is not too much relative to the land area, and there is no need to be too subdivided, after all, there are more than 20 provinces alone, which is still the case that many regions have not been divided into provinces for the time being, such as Mozambique and Angola, Southwest Africa, etc., which cannot meet the requirements of establishing provinces for the time being, and the three places are the second-level administrative management mechanism.

In general, the administrative divisions of East Africa will remain unstable in the short term, and as for the overall stability, it will be at least until the development of all regions of East Africa is relatively balanced.

Naturally, the economy cannot be the primary condition for equilibrium, otherwise large East African cities such as Dar es Salaam and Mombasa are also eligible, mainly based on comprehensive capabilities, such as economy, population, geographical location, infrastructure, etc.

In fact, some towns in East Africa are no worse than cities in terms of economic conditions, or even much stronger, such as the town of Dere Dawa on the northern border and the town of Shokui in Mozambique in the south.

That's right, although Shaokui is only a former Portuguese town, its foundation is not worse than many cities in East Africa, that is, the conditions in Mozambique are not enough now, and Shaokui is fully capable of setting up a city.

The town of Darewa is more special, it is a military town, and there are no other large-scale population settlements around, so it has always maintained the administrative division of the town, and in fact, it can be set up as a prefecture-level city in the northern province.

However, these administrative divisions are actually not of much significance, because the current level of development in East Africa is too low, and the location advantages of many regions have not been highlighted, and maybe for some reason, they have been promoted or downgraded, which is a possible real situation.

For example, in the western and northern regions, many prefecture-level cities were abolished due to natural disasters and other reasons, and some areas formed new regional centers due to changes in transportation conditions.

Of course, the big cities of East Africa are relatively stable, because many of the regions were directly designated by Ernst according to the administrative divisions of Africa in the previous life, especially in the former Tanzania.

Of course, to a certain extent, the cities of East Africa have also inherited the influence of the original regional civilization, and although these African natives have a low level of civilization, they have also experienced thousands of years of historical tests in terms of regional selection.

However, there are not many such places, the indigenous people of Africa are mainly tribals, and many East African tribes are nomadic, hunter-gathering, and have no fixed residence at all.

And it probably won't take too long for blacks to arrive in various parts of Africa, such as South Africa, where black West Africans arrived at almost the same time as European colonizers, and the Zulu kingdom, which was wiped out by East Africa, was the vanguard.

The Arabs' commercial activities in Africa also catalyzed the formation of a number of East African settlements, such as the city of Dodoma, which was originally a necessary place for the Arabs to trade inland along the coast.

Finally, it is to inherit the towns and strongholds of other colonists, which East Africa has done too much, and it can be said that Portugal has contributed the most to East Africa.

In fact, most of the southern part of East Africa was acquired by the Portuguese, and these areas were more or less colonized by the Portuguese or had Portuguese commercial activities.

In the case of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, the Sultanate of Zanzibar was actually the spoils of war obtained by the Omani Empire after defeating Portugal.

Portugal was one of the country's early colonizations in Africa, but in the 18th and 19th centuries, the decline of the Portuguese Empire led to the Portuguese being driven from the interior to the coast by the natives, which is the main reason why East Africa was able to grow in Africa.

In other words, it was in the early days when Portugal's overall strategy in Africa contracted, and East Africa occupied this window period.

Portugal withdrew, but the other forces did not fully know the reality of the Portuguese, so a colonial vacuum was formed in southern Africa, and East Africa took advantage of the void, and by the time Portugal and other powers reacted, East Africa had already become bigger.

"At present, the rural population distribution in East Africa is mainly concentrated in the central and eastern regions, and the central part is slightly worse, but it is barely up to the standard, and the urban strength in the central part is relatively strong, so the further improvement of the central rural areas can also be carried out in an orderly manner."

"Take education as an example, at least two middle schools should be set up in each town, and those with strength can build two campuses, and those without economic strength can share a campus, as for primary schools, with population density as the main reference, try to choose areas with convenient transportation, after all, the ability of primary schools to live independently is obviously not stronger than that of middle school students, and they want to go home nearby, so it is best to choose the best location near the center."

"It is necessary to concentrate the underlying educational resources at the town level, and of course, large villages or farms with better conditions and large populations can also build schools on plantations."

Educational resources should not be too scattered, nor too concentrated, especially in basic education, which is too scattered and has a large investment, and the allocation of teachers is not easy to carry out, and too concentrated is not conducive to the learning of students in remote areas.

Of course, this also means that the compulsory education model in East Africa has undergone a major change, and it is no longer decentralized to the villages, which is actually closely related to the current social development of East Africa, as well as the future economy, transportation and other factors.

Now, with the popularization of animal power in East Africa, as well as the repair of roads, coupled with the improvement of the public security environment, the cost of travel has been greatly reduced, and with the development of new transportation such as automobiles in the future, it will be more economical to travel costs, which is a prerequisite for East Africa to further concentrate grassroots education resources.

And it is conducive to improving the quality of education, after all, many village primary school teachers even have only single digits, the level is uneven, and pooling them can improve efficiency, and at the same time can speed up the communication between teachers and promote the improvement of teaching level.

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