African Entrepreneurship Record

The four of them were touring the Rhine City, and through the car window, they had an unobstructed view of the urban scenery.

"East Africa is currently in a stage of rapid economic development, with stable order but full of vitality. There are two industrial zones, one on the south side of the Foy River reservoir and one in the northwest of the city."

"When you first arrived in Rhine City, you passed through the Northwest Industrial Zone. Relying on the convenient and developed construction of railways and highway transportation, many heavy industries are located in the Northwest Industrial Zone, which facilitates the transportation of raw materials and commodities."

"The Foix River Industrial Zone is built on the basis of the Foix River Reservoir. The Foix River Reservoir covers an area of ​​nearly 80 square kilometers and has a water storage capacity of approximately 1.7 billion cubic meters, which can guarantee the water needs of the entire Rhine City."

"The Rhine Palace is built not far from this large artificial lake, but upstream of the reservoir. The Foix River Reservoir was built on the Rensem Foix River."

"The empire cut off the Rensemfowa River by building the Fowa River Dam, and took advantage of the low-lying terrain here. After seven years of artificial transformation, the Fowa River Reservoir was finally formed."

Of course, Prince Maxim did not introduce that during the construction of the Foix River Reservoir, the main force was basically black laborers. Today, the Fua River Reservoir stands on the Katanga Plateau, but the black slaves who built the reservoir are no longer seen here.

Alexei said in surprise: "Fovo River Reservoir turned out to be the name of this big lake. Before, we thought it was a natural lake!"

Maxim said: "There are many natural large lakes in East Africa, especially the three largest lakes, which are naturally formed giant lakes in the world. They are not much better than the five Great Lakes in the United States. What is even more valuable is that these three large lakes are all freshwater lakes."

The three largest lakes in East Africa are the Great Lake (Lake Victoria), Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika), and Lake Malawi (or Lake Nyasa).

With the opening up of East Africa, the popularity of the three Great Lakes in the world has also increased, and the world map has been greatly adjusted accordingly.

The main reason for this situation is that the expansion of East Africa on the East African Plateau in the last century interrupted the original exploration of the hinterland of Africa by European adventurers.

It was not until the informal opening of East Africa that data on the three Great Lakes was officially leaked to the outside world by the East African government.

This is actually not surprising. In the middle of the last century, Europeans' exploration of Africa progressed very slowly. Before East Africa, only a single digit number of adventurers went deep into it.

Maxim continued: "On these three large lakes, the Foix River Reservoir is like an ant in front of an elephant, and our development of the Foix River Reservoir also cleverly made use of the local topographic characteristics."

"Before East Africa transformed this area, both sides of the Rensemfuwa River were a natural valley terrain, and an area suitable for reservoir construction was formed in the middle. Its upstream and downstream channels are actually relatively narrow."

"We only built a 300-meter concrete dam to cut it off. This dam also undertakes the power generation function. Especially in the rainy season, the power generation capacity is huge, which can ensure the city's stable power output throughout the year. During the rainy season, It can also support the power needs of other surrounding industrial cities, such as New Frankfurt, Kabwe, or cities in the northern copper belt through the power grid.”

The rainy season in Rhine City is relatively long, as long as half a year, and the amount of water will not decrease during the dry season. This is mainly related to the direction of the Rensemfowa River.

The Rensemfowa River mainly runs north-south, flowing from the northern rainforest climate area to the steppe climate area, and the Rhine City is right in between.

Therefore, even in the dry season in the Rhine City, the rain in the upstream areas can ensure that the Rensem Fowa River has sufficient water. Especially after the construction of the Fowa River Reservoir and other water conservancy regulation projects, the water and electricity in the Rhine City are guaranteed. stability.

Moreover, the reason why East Africa chose this place as the capital of East Africa was that the terrain on both sides of the river was relatively high. Even in the rainy season, the river water would not pose a threat to both sides of the river.

Maxim joked: "The Foix River Reservoir should be regarded as Rhine City's own 'sea'. The current area of ​​Foix River Reservoir is slightly larger than the built-up area of ​​Rhine City."

"On weekends, many citizens choose to go to the reservoir area to play or fish. You can also see the Foix River Reservoir from the heights of the Rhine Palace. The royal gardens are also built based on the Foix River Reservoir."

“There is also a large amount of undeveloped forest to the east and south of the Foix River Reservoir. In the south, in addition to the lower reaches of the Rensem Foix River, there are also railways leading to the city of Tete, Hinde and Quelimane, which can be regarded as One of the access points to the sea from Rhine City.”

Since the East African railway network was basically formed, the dependence of the East African interior on the port of Dar es Salaam has been greatly reduced. Take Rhine City as an example. The fastest access to the sea is Dar es Salaam, Quelimane, Hindé, Luanda, Benguela, Lobito, Cabinda and many more.

These rising stars in East African port cities all have direct trains to Rhine City, which greatly reduces Rhine City's dependence on Dar es Salaam.

This is one of the reasons why Dar es Salaam has experienced relatively weak development in recent years, but East Africa is happy to see this happen.

This just proves the achievements of transportation construction in East Africa. After all, the more routes there are, the number of hub cities will increase, and the status and importance of the original transportation hub will also decrease.

However, the conditions of Dar es Salaam are there. Even if it is "declined", it is only in relative terms. It is not that Dar es Salaam is developing slowly, but that other port cities are developing too fast.

In this regard, Mombasa's conditions are much better. So far, Mombasa is still the only sea route for the Northern Railway, and the Gabon section of the Northern Railway has a relatively slow construction progress. It is estimated that it will take two or three years to be officially completed, so that the Northern Railway will officially become the East African national railway trunk line connecting the two oceans.

In addition to the rapid increase in the financial attributes of Mombasa in recent years, the gap between Mombasa and Dar es Salaam has become smaller and smaller. Perhaps one day in the future, it will replace Dar es Salaam as the largest city in East Africa.

Of course, surpassing Dar es Salaam does not mean sitting back and relaxing. In addition to the possibility of being overtaken by Dar es Salaam again, it also has to face the competition from emerging port cities such as Luanda, Cabinda, and Beira.

Compared with these port cities, the development of inland cities in East Africa requires more coordination from the East African government. As the capital, the development of Rhine City also represents the development of the inland economy of East Africa to a certain extent.

In recent years, the development speed of Rhine City is also among the best in East African cities, especially in the non-economic field. A large amount of resources have been invested to make it quickly become a national central city in administration, finance, academics, education, medical care, transportation, etc.

Maxim said: "In a while, I will take you to the Fuwa River Dam to have a look. From there you will know how we cut off the Rensem Fuwa River. It is the rainy season now, the Rensem Fuwa River is full of water, and the water level of the Fuwa River Reservoir is also high."

"Standing on the Fuwa River Dam, you can see a very spectacular scenery. Before that, we will pass through the southwest industrial zone of Rhine City. After a few intersections, turn left and enter the Southwest Industrial Avenue. Along the Southwest Industrial Avenue, you can see the Fuwa River Dam in less than ten minutes."

"Although the Fuwa River Reservoir is only considered to be medium-to-high scale among East African water conservancy projects, it is not small. There are not many countries in the world that have the ability to independently build such a large-scale hydropower station."

After hearing what Maxim said, Alexei and others became more interested in this large-scale water conservancy project built by East Africa.

Although the Fuwa River Reservoir is only considered to be medium-to-high scale among East African water conservancy projects according to Maxim, this is only for East Africa.

In fact, since they set foot in East Africa, passed the Central Railway, went deep into the hinterland of East Africa, and got a glimpse of the infrastructure construction from the coast to the inland of East Africa, they have clearly known that East Africa’s achievements in the field of infrastructure may be among the best in the world.