Chapter 892 Industrial Incubation Center
As the first railway hub in East Africa, the importance of New Frankfurt is self-evident. Of course, a country as vast as East Africa cannot have only one railway hub.
According to East Africa's "three vertical and three horizontal" plan, these six trunk railways should be connected vertically and horizontally to form nine intersections. However, because the West Coast Railway cannot cross the Namib Desert for the time being, Walvis Bay cannot form a railway hub.
The objective reason for this result is that the Namib Desert is a mobile desert. Even in the 20th century, only a few countries had the ability to build roads and railway facilities in such areas.
Moreover, it is difficult to maintain the railway in the later stage, and the railway is easily buried by wind and sand. Either supporting sand control projects should be carried out along the line, or elevated railway lines should be built like the Far East Empire in the 21st Century to reduce wind and sand erosion and flooding.
Obviously, these two points are not easily achievable in East Africa now, and even if they can be achieved, it would be extremely uneconomical.
Therefore, in reality, there are only eight intersections of the three vertical and three horizontal lines, and these eight points are the railway hubs on the six most important trunk lines in East Africa.
There are three national railway hubs in the central region, namely Kisangani, New Frankfort and Bulawayo.
In fact, including branch lines, Harare, Lubumbashi, Dodoma, etc. are also regional railway hubs. However, East Africa is currently focusing on the construction of trunk railways. Branch lines will only be built before trunk railways unless they are of great value like the Harare-Bei Railway.
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Mbeya is the science and technology center of East Africa, which is quite unexpected. After all, higher education in East Africa is concentrated on the eastern coast, and there is also Soga, a city that was built with the goal of science, education and culture in mind.
Therefore, it is neither a science and technology center nor a city with the highest concentration of higher education. There is a natural reason why Mbeya stands out from many cities in East Africa.
Today, the industrial scale of Mbeya has been surpassed by Harare, but its industrial base is still strong, and the level of higher education in Mbeya ranks among the top five in East Africa.
Since it has the support of industry and education, the technological level of Mbeya City will naturally not be bad in East Africa. The core reason why Mbeya City surpasses Dar es Salaam, First Town, Soga... is that the scientific research institutions in Mbeya City are far superior to other regions.
Including colleges and universities and independent research institutions, Mbeya City has a total of more than 100 research institutes of various types, including 13 national-level, 32 provincial-level, and 93 municipal-level, covering most industrial fields such as metallurgy, electricity, power, energy, steel, railways, and ships.
"The scientific research level of our city of Mbeya is very advanced in the whole of East Africa. This is the result of the relocation of some institutions to central provinces such as Lusaka and Harare. If it were not for the loss of industry and talent, Mbeya would only be stronger in the field of scientific research."
The mayor of Mbeya said with a hint of regret that after all, as the vanguard in the development of the central region of East Africa, the geographical location of Mbeya determined its main position in supporting the development of the central region.
Because according to the geographical division of East Africa, the city of Mbeya is located at the intersection of the central and eastern parts, and the inland cities were basically focused on developing heavy industry in the early days. At that time, as the heavy industrial center of East Africa, the city of Mbeya naturally had to take responsibility and assist the various industrial and mining cities in the central part to build the framework.
"Mayor Reni, don't feel regretful. Industrial transfer is the general trend. The country has formulated the general policy and we can only follow it. Moreover, Mbeya's achievements today are inseparable from the policy tilt of the central government. Only when everyone makes progress can our country develop better in the future." Logans, who came to beg for money, persuaded.
Loggens is the mayor of New Frankfurt. His mission in Mbeya this time is to collect some benefits. That is, according to the requirements of the central government, he wants to pack up some scientific research institutions and talents in the fields of automobile, electricity and equipment manufacturing in Mbeya and bring them back to New Frankfurt.
Over the past decade, Mbeya City can be said to be the "incubator" for industries in various central provinces. After all, as the earliest heavy industrial base in East Africa, Mbeya City has a rich financial foundation.
Regarding Logans, a shameless government "scum", Rainey said angrily: "You are just taking advantage of others. I am so angry when I think of your New Frankfurt City. There is not even a shadow of Rhine City yet, and you have reaped the first batch of policy dividends."
Logans smiled and said, "That's not the case. Even without Rhine City, the status of our New Frankfurt City would not be lower. After all, it is a transportation hub. The name Frankfurt alone is full of the central government's high hopes for our city."
Reni said disdainfully: "You have certain advantages in transportation, but they are not much better than our city. After all, the land transportation between the central and eastern parts cannot bypass our Mbeya. In the future, Mbeya will build more roads and railways. In addition, we also have the natural large lake of Lake Malawi, and water transportation is also relatively developed."
This is indeed true. Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika) and Lake Malawi have given the city of Mbeya a unique locational advantage, and it plays an important role in land and water transportation in East Africa.
Even compared with the city of New Frankfurt, it can only be said that the difference between the two is very small. Lake Solon and Lake Malawi are both long and narrow lakes. The north-south distance of Lake Malawi is more than 560 kilometers, and Lake Tanganyika is more than 670 kilometers long. Therefore, if you want to bypass the city of Mbeya by land, you have to go a long distance. In addition, the depth of the two lakes is more than hundreds of meters, so you can only rely on ships to travel through the lake.
"This time, we will allocate 30% of the Second Automobile Plant Research Institute to join the city of New Frankfurt. As for the equipment manufacturing industry, we have not selected the personnel yet. After all, the equipment manufacturing industry is very complicated. Our plan is to draw some forces from thirteen stronger factories and research institutes to join your city, including electricity, locomotives, engines and other fields." Rainey said with a painful expression.
This time, the city of New Frankfurt will have to draw at least a professional team of hundreds of people from the city of Mbeya, which will also be a major blow to the city of Mbeya. The last time this was done was by the city of Harare.
However, the city of Harare is much more "excessive" than the new Frankfurt. Almost 60% of the industrial sectors and scientific research institutions of Mbeya City have been copied to Matabele Province. Otherwise, the city of Harare would not have been able to develop so fast.
Of course, Mbeya City cannot achieve this by itself. Instead, the entire Lake Malawi Industrial Zone behind Mbeya City has drawn a large number of elite troops to the three central provinces to support the industrial framework of these three provinces.
Therefore, this time the New Frankfurt city "sucks blood" from the Mbeya city, it is not a serious blow to the Mbeya city.
"These are all treasures of our Mbeya city, Logans, you must treat them well." said Rennie.
Logans naturally agreed to this: "Don't worry, Mayor Rainey, talents are respected everywhere. We in New Frankfurt will naturally receive these distinguished guests with the best treatment."
After spending three days in Mbeya, one of the industrial incubation centers in East Africa, Logans continued his journey eastward. After all, Mbeya was just the starting point, and there were still cities such as Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, and Nairobi waiting for him.
According to the itinerary, Logans will go to Soga City again after returning, mainly to snatch talents from East African universities. College students are a scarce resource in East Africa, and various cities will go to Soga City to recruit talents.
The city of Soga is mainly populated by domestic college students, while the group of international students is mainly allocated by East African industrial sectors. They are generally given priority by state agencies, state-owned enterprises or royal enterprises, and then they can get their turn to pick up some "leftovers" from local places. However, it is difficult to say the upper limit for those who can study abroad, but the lower limit is very high, and cities and institutions in East Africa will also scramble for them.
(End of this chapter)
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