Chapter 972: Emerging Industrial Power

The most prominent part of this national industrial summary is still concentrated in the field of internal combustion engine vehicles, which is also one of the key areas of focus for Ernst and the East African government.

"As of last year, the total number of internal combustion engine vehicles in my country has reached 700,000, covering three major types of cars, trucks and tractors. The number of cars in China ranks first in the world, with more than 170,000 vehicles, 200,000 trucks, and more than 300,000 tractors. More than one million kilometers of new roads have been built, and three million kilometers of mechanized roads have been repaired and newly built."

In this regard, East Africa has truly achieved a far-reaching lead. In the category of cars alone, 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, and the car production in East Africa is more than ten times that of the United States.

Moreover, in the next decade, 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 production enterprises have been formed in the country, covering 59 automobile brands, more than 30 cities and more than 400 factories across the country.

In today's East Africa, 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 then to the present, Ernst feels that his main task is to engage in infrastructure construction. In addition to new construction, the current infrastructure construction in East Africa can be divided into three parts.

In the whole country, it is to rebuild the road system, harden the road surface, provide a foundation for the development of the automobile industry, renovate the water network and water conservancy facilities in the eastern river, and build new water conservancy facilities in other areas. After all, the output of industrial products such as cement in East Africa was limited before, so the original water conservancy facilities were relatively primitive, mainly civil structures. Now that the output of cement and steel has increased, it is natural to rebuild, and many unrealizable water conservancy projects must also be newly built.

The popularization of tractors requires East Africa to update and replace roads in rural areas, farmlands, plantations, pastures and other agricultural areas. Therefore, after entering the 1990s, the amount of engineering in East Africa has increased more than before.

Compared with cars, trucks and tractors are more popular. It can be seen from the output that the number of trucks and tractors exceeds that of cars. After all, East Africa itself attaches more importance to practicality and efficiency.

Automobile production is entirely out of the need to win people's hearts, and is mainly equipped for officials and scientific researchers in East Africa.

This is already pretty good. After all, only rich people in Europe and the United States can afford cars now, and the automobile industry has not yet sunk into the civilian market.

Judging from the automobile production in East Africa, East Africa will realize the sinking of automobiles to the civilian market one step ahead of Europe and the United States.

Of course, under Ernst's instructions, East Africa also attaches importance to the research and development of public transportation. After all, East Africa's local oil resources are relatively scarce.

Similarly, East African automobile research and development is also moving towards the two major ideas of "speeding up" and "fuel saving", which requires East African car companies to treat the domestic and foreign markets differently, and the domestic market is divided into the civilian market and the military market.

Ernst has the awareness of "energy security and crisis", but the foreign market has no relevant concept, so the foreign market's pursuit of automobiles focuses on experience, and "fuel saving" must sacrifice part of the experience value. Fortunately, East Africa is a closed market country, so it is also familiar to take a differentiated route.

Otherwise, East Africa's huge automobile production capacity can completely overwhelm automobile manufacturers in other countries. In fact, international friends are already suffering from East African competitors, and this is only the case when East African coastal automobile companies are working hard.

East Africa's automobile industry is mainly located in inland areas, and it is also mainly supplied to the domestic market. Exports mainly rely on automobile manufacturers in the two coastal cities of Dar es Salaam and Mombasa.

After all, East Africa belongs to a planned economy and does not need to emphasize the content of the market economy too much. The content of the current planned economy is to improve the level of industrialization in East Africa.

Like internal combustion engine vehicle manufacturing, East Africa does not care much about profits. Otherwise, according to the current income level of East African residents, it is undoubtedly very difficult to promote the development of East African automobile industry. Even East African officials cannot afford it easily.

Therefore, the market of East African automobile industry, excluding the high-profit market abroad, has some routes in the country, just like the railway department of the Far East Empire in the past, with losses in passenger transportation and relying on freight transportation to recover blood. This is why the output of trucks and tractors in East Africa is higher than that of cars. Trucks and tractors can create more industrial and agricultural benefits, while cars are much worse.

Of course, even so, this is beneficial to the expansion of the East African automobile industry. After all, under the government's administrative measures, the domestic market has been forcibly created, and this market is the largest in the world, although the profit is far less than that of foreign markets.

The next goal of East African automakers is to further reduce production costs and expand production capacity, so as to truly realize the goal of East Africa's "country on wheels".

"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, industrial production equipment related to internal combustion engines, such as engines and generators, are widely used in factories. Pump stations used in a large number of people's livelihood facilities such as water conservancy also require internal combustion engines or motors as power."

"The internal combustion engine industry and the power industry have undoubtedly become the most important engines for our East African development, making our East Africa the first to achieve the goal of an industrial power in the field of emerging industries."

"Without the continued development and huge potential of these emerging industries, East Africa will always be just a follower of European and American countries. The leading position in emerging industries means that my country's industrial development has grasped the future. As time goes by, my country's industry will inevitably become more and more prominent in the world."

In the field of traditional industries, East Africa, Germany, and the United States cannot easily surpass Britain, especially in the fields of steam engines and textiles. The solution is to eliminate traditional industries through emerging industries and seize market share.

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.

Another point is that there is still a gap between the current industrial scale of East Africa and the two countries, but this gap is not too large. The main reason is that the population growth rate in East Africa is too fast. In this case, even if the industrialization rate and urbanization rate of East Africa no longer increase, the industrial scale will passively increase due to population growth.

In fact, the American industry surpassed Britain in 1890 on this route. Population is an important resource. In the industrial age, all industrializing countries will usher in a surge in population.

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.

However, the international environment in which East Africa is in its industrialization stage is much better than that of the Far East Empire in the past. In this era, the blockade of backward countries by developed countries is much smaller. After all, the world is not dominated by one country, but a truly multipolar world. Although there are strong and weak countries, it undoubtedly creates more opportunities for backward regions and countries.

In the 19th century, the currency 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 is also one of the important reasons why East Africa can easily complete industrial upgrading.

Of course, the emerging industries in East Africa are not weak, but after industrial upgrading, industries such as coal, steel, railways, chemicals, and textiles 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 that it can ensure further growth in its industrial level.