Chapter 972: Emerging Industrial Powers
In this national industrial summary, the most prominent part is concentrated in the field of internal combustion engine vehicles, which is also one of the areas of focus for Ernst and the East African government.
"As of last year, the total number of domestic combustion locomotives in my country has reached 700,000, covering three major types of cars, trucks and tractors. The number of cars in the world ranks first in the world, with more than 170,000, trucks 200,000, and the number of tractors exceeds three 100,000 vehicles, more than 1 million kilometers of new roads were built, and 3 million kilometers of new mechanized roads were repaired.”
In this regard, East Africa has truly taken the lead. In just one category of cars, the number of cars in East Africa exceeds the total number of other countries in the world. Among them, the number of cars in the United States, which ranks second in the world, has just exceeded 10,000. East Africa’s car output is the United States. More than ten times.
Moreover, in the next ten years, the East African automobile industry will usher in a new round of explosion. In this industrial upgrade, East Africa has integrated and upgraded the local automobile industry. Seven large automobile manufacturers have been formed across the country, covering 59 Automobile brands, more than 30 cities across the country, more than 400 factories.
In East Africa today, the automobile, truck and tractor manufacturing industries have become emerging industries that can compete with traditional industries.
Corresponding to the great development of internal combustion engine vehicles in East Africa, from colonization to the founding of the country and now, Ernst feels that his main task is to build infrastructure. In addition to new construction, the current infrastructure construction in East Africa can be divided into three parts.
Across the country, we are rebuilding the highway system and hardening the roads to provide a foundation for the development of the automobile industry. We are currently renovating the river network and water conservancy facilities in the east, and building water conservancy facilities in other regions. After all, the output of industrial products such as cement in East Africa was limited in the past, so the original water conservancy facilities It was relatively primitive and mainly focused on civil structures. Now that the production of cement and steel has increased, it will naturally have to be rebuilt, and many water conservancy projects that cannot be realized will also have to be built.
Of course, even so, this is beneficial to the expansion of the East African automobile industry. After all, the government's administrative measures have forcibly created a domestic market, and this market is the largest in the world, although the profits are far less than those of foreign markets.
Compared to cars, trucks and tractors are more popular. As can be seen from the output, the number of trucks and tractors exceeds that of cars. After all, East Africa itself pays more attention to practicality and efficiency.
However, the international environment in the industrialization stage of East Africa is much better than that of the Far Eastern Empire in the previous era. In this era, the first-mover countries have much less force to block the backward countries. After all, the world is not dominated by one country, but is truly multi-polar. Although there are strengths and weaknesses, it has undoubtedly created more opportunities for backward regions and countries.
“The internal combustion engine industry and the electric power industry have undoubtedly become the most important engines for the development of East Africa, making East Africa the first to achieve the goal of becoming an industrial power in the field of emerging industries.”
However, it is very difficult for East Africa to ensure that its industrialization level does not decline and achieve growth. After all, a large population is also a burden.
Of course, compared with East Africa, the traditional industries of the United States and Germany are also very strong, and this is the main reason for the huge economic gap between East Africa and the two countries.
Like the manufacturing of internal combustion engine vehicles, East Africa does not care much about profits. Otherwise, based on the current income level of East African residents, it will undoubtedly be very difficult to promote the development of the automobile industry in East Africa, and even East African officials cannot easily afford it. Therefore, the East African automobile industry market, excluding the high-profit foreign market, some domestic routes are like the railway department of the Far Eastern Empire in the previous life. Passenger transport suffered losses and relied on freight to make a profit. This is why East Africa's truck and tractor output is higher than that of cars. The reason is that trucks and tractors can create more industrial and agricultural benefits, while cars are far less profitable.
In the field of traditional industries, East Africa, Germany, and the United States cannot easily surpass the United Kingdom, especially in the fields of steam engines and textile industries. The solution is to eliminate traditional industries through emerging industries to capture market share.
Otherwise, the huge automobile production capacity in East Africa can completely overwhelm the automobile manufacturers in other countries. In fact, international friends are already suffering terribly from East African competitors, and this is only the case where the coastal automobile companies in East Africa are exerting their strength.
Of course, under Ernst’s instructions, East Africa also attaches great importance to the research and development of public transportation. After all, East Africa’s local oil resources are relatively scarce.
"Internal combustion engine vehicles have begun to play a huge role in my country's transportation, engineering construction, and agricultural production. At the same time, internal combustion engine-related industrial production equipment, such as engines and generators, are widely used in factories. A large number of pumping stations used in water conservancy and other livelihood facilities also require internal combustion engines. Or motor as power."
After all, East Africa is a planned economy, and there is no need to place too much emphasis on the content of the market economy. The current content of the planned economy is to improve the level of industrialization in East Africa.
East Africa's automobile industry is mainly located in inland areas and mainly supplies domestic products. Export sales mainly rely on automobile manufacturers in the two coastal cities of Dar es Salaam and Mombasa.
In fact, this was the route that American industry overtook the United Kingdom in 1890. Population is an important resource. In the era of industrialization, every country that is industrializing will experience a population explosion.
The popularization of tractors requires East Africa to upgrade roads in rural areas, farmlands, plantations, pastures and other agricultural areas. Therefore, after entering the 1990s, the amount of construction projects in East Africa was more than before.
The currency in the 19th century was bound to gold and silver. As a major gold mining country, East Africa could buy almost any industrial equipment it wanted during its industrialization stage. This was one of the important reasons why East Africa could easily complete industrial upgrading.
Judging from the automobile production in East Africa, East Africa will realize the sinking of automobiles into the civilian market earlier than European and American countries.
In the same way, East African automobile research and development is also moving towards the two major ideas of "speed increase" and "fuel saving". This requires East African automobile companies to handle the differences between domestic and foreign markets, and the domestic market must be divided into civilian market and military market. .
Automobile production is entirely driven by the need to win over people's hearts and is mainly equipped for officials and scientific researchers in East Africa.
"Without the continued development and huge potential of these emerging industries, we in East Africa will always be just followers of European and American countries. The leading position in emerging industries means that our country's industrial development has seized the future. As time goes by, our country's industry will inevitably The advantages will become more and more prominent around the world.”
Ernst has an awareness of "energy security and crisis", but there is no relevant concept in foreign markets. Therefore, the pursuit of cars in foreign markets emphasizes experience, and "fuel saving" must sacrifice part of the experience value. Fortunately, East Africa is a closed market country, so differences are made The route is also considered familiar.
And this is already considered good. After all, only wealthy people in European and American countries can afford cars, and the automobile industry has not yet reached the civilian market.
The next step for East African car companies is to further reduce production costs and expand production capacity, so as to truly realize the goal of East Africa’s “country on wheels”.
Of course, the strength of emerging industries in East Africa is not weak, but after industrial upgrading, coal, steel, railways, chemicals, textiles and other industries have also been updated and iterated, greatly saving time and efficiency.
This has laid a good foundation for the next step of industrialization in East Africa. In the next decade, even in the face of population growth pressure, the East African government is confident in ensuring further growth in the country's industrial level.
(End of this chapter)