African Entrepreneurship Records

Chapter 1062 Transformation of Emerging Industries

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Seeing that the Second Five-Year Plan was also coming to an end, and the first decade of this century was coming to an end, the workload in East Africa in 1909 was much higher than at the end of the First Five-Year Plan.

"After the end of the Second Five-Year Plan, my country's industrial performance will definitely reach a new height, especially at the emerging industry level. Through early deployment, many of them have now developed very impressively and become the most outstanding performance among my country's foreign export industries."

"Industries such as electricity, automobiles, tractors, shipbuilding, railways, petroleum, chemicals, etc. have significantly enhanced their driving role in my country's industrial system. These emerging industries are now or have become major industrial types in the world, replacing the first Some industries during the Industrial Revolution enabled my country to overtake other countries in many major industrial categories.”

After 20 to 30 years of development, some emerging industries have become popular in East Africa, and at the same time they have accelerated the development of East African industry towards an industrial power.

Take railways as an example. Railways were born in the first industrial revolution, so railways should be considered a traditional industrial type. Especially in other countries, railways have not yet undergone much change and are still in the steam age.

But the situation in East Africa is different. After the industrial upgrading in East Africa, railways have now transitioned from the steam era to the internal combustion engine era. Internal combustion engine power has become the mainstream of East African railways. This change makes East African railways an emerging industry, rather than an ordinary one. traditional industries, and electrified railways have appeared in East Africa, and the railway industry continues to transform.

The qualitative changes in the railway industry have transformed East Africa from a weak country in the railway industry to a powerful country in the world's railway manufacturing industry.

In terms of steam locomotives, it is difficult for East Africa to surpass countries such as Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Due to historical reasons, they have developed steam locomotives to the extreme, especially the United Kingdom, which was the first to industrialize. Its technology in the field of steam locomotives is unique in the world, and it is far behind. While leading, we are still making progress.

Just like in the previous era when the Far Eastern Empire developed oil vehicles, it was difficult to surpass Germany and Japan. Although the Far Eastern Empire's automobile industry developed at an alarming rate, this does not mean that the German and Japanese automobile industries are dead. They firmly control the automobile industry. All-round advantages, and through various means to suppress the automobile industry of other countries.

But when new energy vehicles appeared and the Far Eastern Empire and the United States changed tracks at the same time, Germany and Japan were completely helpless.

East Africa has now achieved a new track in the railway industry. Internal combustion engines are equivalent to new energy sources, at least compared to steam engines.

In the steam age, it was difficult for East Africa to surpass traditional industrial powers such as the United Kingdom, but it would be completely different if the track was changed. At the same time, although other countries in the world also had diesel locomotives on railways, they were mainly experimental models, while East Africa has already achieved Large-scale production and equipment of diesel locomotives.

Therefore, the current world railways can be divided into two systems: traditional steam locomotives, or new diesel locomotives. There is no doubt that diesel locomotives are more advanced than steam locomotives and will replace steam locomotives on a large scale in the future. This It also means that over time, East African railways have actually moved ahead of other countries in the world.

This lead is mainly reflected in changes in the technical system. It is a fact that diesel locomotives are more efficient than steam locomotives, and East Africa has become the only country in the world that has entered the era of railway internal combustion engines.

If this advantage is maintained, the East African railway industry can at least reap decades of gains. After all, before the high-speed rail era in previous generations, diesel locomotives had the main advantage.

Of course, there are still some differences between steam locomotives and diesel locomotives. East Africa is definitely a strong manufacturing country for diesel locomotives, and steam locomotives can only be ranked at the forefront. Steam locomotives still occupy a certain market in East Africa and have not been completely replaced. Therefore, the old and new forces on the East African Railway have not yet Complete replacement.

Diesel locomotives and steam locomotives cannot simply be compared together. In a certain sense, the two locomotives are actually two different things. Only when other countries' railways begin to shift to the era of internal combustion engines can the status of East Africa's railway manufacturing power be more clearly established. The same is true in industries such as electric power. The electric power industry covers a wide range of fields. Before the advent of the electric age, there was no corresponding reference. For example, the original main function of electric power was only for lighting, which corresponded to the role of gas lamps or candles at that time. , but with the development of electricity, it has also played the role of coal as an energy source for industrial production. With the advancement of electrification in East Africa, electricity has been widely used in home appliances.

Generally speaking, electricity is a kind of energy, but it is obviously different from coal, natural gas and oil. However, with the development of the electric power industry, its huge power is no less than coal, the most important basic energy source during the first industrial revolution. .

In East Africa, with the development of the automobile industry, the oil industry has also begun to mature, and its scale is also rising rapidly.

This has led to the current parallel development of coal, oil, and electricity in the energy field of East Africa. Due to the promotion of the East African government, the natural gas industry is also accelerating its promotion, becoming the fourth largest energy source after the first three.

"In the two five-year plans, emerging industries have achieved transformation and become the main force in our country's industry and economy. We should no longer look at these industries with the old eyes. These emerging industries have matured and are fully capable of shouldering the national industrial responsibility. The main force of development.”

"The maturity of emerging industries has enabled many industrial sectors in our country to achieve overtaking in corners. During the Second Five-Year Plan period, my country's industrial export value increased significantly driven by these emerging industries, achieving differentiated competition with other countries' industrial products and becoming East Africa's industrial export flagship product.”

"This is something that traditional industries cannot do, because in many traditional industries, we have only made it from scratch, but have not made it from weak to strong. And if we want to catch up and overtake other countries in traditional industries, we need to Solid accumulation requires not only resource investment, but also time costs, and time costs are obviously our disadvantage in East Africa. As an emerging country, we have developed hundreds of years later than European and American countries, so in many traditional industrial fields, we cannot It may only take a few decades to overtake those established powers.”

"However, with the surge of emerging industries in East Africa during the Second Five-Year Plan, we seem to have found a way to break the monopoly of traditional industrial markets in European and American countries. This is clearly reflected in the railway and shipbuilding manufacturing industries."

The railway and shipbuilding manufacturing industries were already relatively prominent during the first industrial revolution. Therefore, with the development of East Africa's domestic railway and shipbuilding manufacturing industries, it is easier to see the transformation of industry under the overall industrial upgrading of East Africa.

At least the transformation of the railway industry has been mentioned, and the situation is actually similar in the shipbuilding industry. However, in the field of shipbuilding industry, East Africa is not particularly outstanding.

In the first and middle of the last century, with the birth of ironclad ships, the shipbuilding industry also underwent tremendous changes. The shipbuilding industry began to transform from the age of sails to the age of steam and steel.

Of course, the transformation of the shipbuilding manufacturing industry was the first to occur in European and American countries, but East Africa has also caught up with the trend. Under this change, if the traditional shipbuilding manufacturing powers do not actively change, they may be replaced, but most of them Most traditional powers in the age of sail have achieved transformation.

Even so, changes in the shipbuilding industry have given many countries the opportunity to catch up again, including East Africa, Germany and Japan.

Among them, Germany performed best. Relying on its strong industrial base, it quickly became the world's emerging shipbuilding manufacturing center and promoted the rapid development of its navy.

Due to inherent deficiencies, East Africa and Japan are unable to achieve as brilliant achievements as Germany, but they are also outstanding among many countries in the world, especially East Africa, which has achieved qualitative changes in the shipbuilding industry due to its national size.

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