Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 252 Songjiang Construction Development Conference

After inspecting the Songjiang Base of General Machinery Company, Li Fushou participated in the "Songjiang Area Comprehensive Construction and Development Conference" held in the large conference room of the Songjiang Base in the morning of the next day. The relevant departments of Songjiang Town, agriculture and animal husbandry, Songjiang Reservoir and various enterprises were responsible All people attended the meeting.

  The meeting lasted for two days, and the head of Songjiang Town could talk freely.

  Songjiang Town is located in the lower reaches of the Great Dividing Range Mountains. Thousands of years of flooding and forest swamp siltation have made the land very fertile, especially the Taihu Lake and the vast swamp area, which is very conducive to the development of rice cultivation.

  This is also the most suitable area for growing rice in Australia. The Red River Valley has a typical tropical humid climate, with an average annual rainfall of 1000-1300 mm, which is suitable for growing rice in a broad sense.

However, considering the combination of soil, precipitation, geographic location and climatic conditions, Songjiang Township is the most suitable for growing rice. Through proper construction of water conservancy projects, the mountain torrents are confined to fixed rivers and not overflowing everywhere, plus Songjiang Reservoir storage, This is undoubtedly a land of fish and rice.

  Now it has the Songjiang Reservoir, which can make the violent mountain torrents docile. Coupled with the regulation of the Taihu Lake and the Huangpu River downstream, it has the basic conditions for a land of fish and rice.

  Building water conservancy projects to drain the accumulated water in the swamp area. After a large swamp area has dried up and settled, the nutrient-rich mulch is the best rice field.

  The proposal for the construction of water conservancy projects was passed at the Development Conference, which is mainly to build dozens of kilometers of dams, diversion canals, bridges, irrigation and drainage stations and culverts to form large tracts of fertile land. The investment in this area will reach tens of thousands of pounds.

  After completion

  Songjiang Town Agricultural Reclamation will add 800,000 mu of rice fields, which can plant two crops every year, solve the main livelihood problems of 50,000 to 60,000 households, and further expand the population base of Songjiang Town.

  In the early test field, the average rice yield per mu reached 150-180 kg, which was already high in the era when no chemical fertilizers were used, which is enough to show that the land in Songjiang Town is fertile.

From raw land to mature land, rice output will gradually increase. In the future, the yield of more than 200 kilograms per mu is promising. This means that the annual output of double-season rice can reach about 300,000 tons, which can solve the problem of 2.5 to 3 million people’s high-quality rice. need.

  After all, the Chinese in the south prefer to eat rice, and this hard demand cannot be ignored.

  With the increase of immigrants, the demand for rice will be more vigorous in the future. The neighboring Gusu Town can also be used to convey water through canals and develop into a rice planting base, which is included in the long-term plan.

  There is a saying among the people that Australia’s poor land is not suitable for rice planting and agricultural development. This is a pure fallacy and is not worth refuting.

  Australia is a whole continent in the South Pacific region, with a complex geographical and climate composition. The northern York Peninsula has a typical tropical rainforest climate, with an annual rainfall of up to 4500 mm, which is the area with the most rainfall.

The entire southeastern Australia west of the Great Divide, from the south of the York Peninsula to the north of Melbourne, is a typical subtropical monsoon humid climate with a length of 3,300 kilometers. The average rainfall is 900-1200 mm, which is slightly higher than that of Jiangsu. , Generally higher than the annual rainfall of 750 mm in northern Jiangsu, and the same as the annual rainfall in southern Jiangsu.

  With such an excellent climate and geographical conditions, it could not be better to grow rice, wheat, soybeans and other crops extensively.

  It’s just that Australia has a small population, superior geographical conditions, and people are a bit lazy and are reluctant to plant land instead of being unable to plant it.

  How comfortable grazing is, it’s just a day’s journey to drive the flocks of cattle and flocks, and just cut the wool.

  As a world-class excellent pasture, Australia is grazing on the fertile soil of the arable land. The flocks of the pastures with rich water and grass can not be eaten. In terms of conditions, it is countless times stronger than that of Texas in the United States.

  Look around the world

  Only Argentina and New Zealand can compete with them. They are also world-class ranches, but the ranches in these two countries are smaller and cannot be compared with Australia.

  From the perspective of climatic conditions

  Brisbane and Red River Valley, located on the Sunshine Coast, have the best climate conditions. Most of the annual temperature is around 10-20 degrees, and the highest temperature does not exceed 25 degrees. It can be said that the four seasons are like spring, neither cold nor hot, and the sun is shining.

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The southern parts of Sydney and Brisbane are a bit colder. The southernmost area has a modern maritime climate. In addition, there are the humid Mediterranean climate of South Australia, the subtropical grassland climate, the tropical desert climate of Western Australia, etc. The climate conditions are rich and varied, with rainfall. They are also different.

  At the Songjiang Town Development Conference

The proposal for 800,000 mu of farmland and water conservancy facilities was passed, and there was enthusiastic applause from the audience. It can be predicted that in a few years, Songjiang Town will develop into a strong industrial town, and it will also become a strong agricultural town with a large population.

  The second major issue at the meeting was the development of Beishan Iron Mine. Beishan is located in the mountains north of Songjiang Reservoir, about 40 kilometers away from Songjiang Town. High-grade magnetite has been surveyed and found here, and the preliminary survey reserves have exceeded 100 million tons.

  Australia is indeed a country sitting in the mines, and its rich coal and iron resources are so horrifying.

  Hongshan Iron and Steel Plant's Songjiang Base is also based on the resources of Beishan Iron Mine, which is set up by Taihu Lake

Thus

  The iron ore mined from Beishan can be transported to the northern shore of Taihu Lake via a dedicated railway of more than 40 kilometers. After being smelted at the Songjiang base, it will enter the Huangpu River by boating from Taihu Lake and directly into the sea along this waterway to trade ports around the world.

  This is a very reasonable industrial layout. Beishan Iron Mine relies on convenient transportation conditions. Whether it is exporting iron ore or producing steel, it can be directly connected to the international market by rail and water transportation.

  Most of the world-class iron and steel enterprises in later generations have convenient transportation conditions near the sea or rivers, which greatly reduces the transportation cost of bulk commodities and is more competitive in the market.

  Relying on the Songjiang base of Hongshan Iron and Steel Plant, a series of special steel manufacturing plants, steel ropes, steel meshes, steel pipes, steel pipe valves and other series of steel products and shipbuilding plants can also be developed.

Nowadays, next to the northern shore of Taihu Lake, there are more than a dozen private shipyards, large and small, providing the market with small and medium-sized fishing vessels, ranging from 200-ton to 3,000-ton offshore vessels, small and medium passenger ships, dredging ships, engineering ships, A variety of products such as shallow horizontal bottom boats.

On the desk of the Songjiang Town Office, there are more shipyard establishment applications waiting for approval. They all take a fancy to the business opportunities brought by the prosperous maritime transportation. Queensland strongly advocates offshore and deep-sea fishing industry. Great prospects for development.

  Australian cities are mainly connected by shipping, especially during the four shearing seasons a year. Massive amounts of wool from southern states such as north of Queensland, Melbourne and Sydney arrive at woolen mills by water, almost 100% of which rely on offshore shipping.

  As a result, a huge demand has been born.

  Together with the flow of people and trade needs in various cities in Australia, there is a huge demand for various types of small and medium-sized freighters and passenger ships, up to hundreds of ships each year. This is the market for small and medium-sized shipyards.

With the rise of the transportation and fishing industries, related industries in Australia have also developed. A series of manufacturers that produce anchor chains, cables, canvas, waterproof tarpaulins, fishing nets, steel cables and even alloy propellers have developed to provide the market. The desired product.

  There are many dignitaries in the Zhi Gong Party who have participated in the shares. Many of them have traveled to Europe and the United States. They have broad vision and knowledge. They only know that there is absolutely nothing wrong with following Lord Earl.

  These people hold shares in large enterprises and have high salaries, and there is no shortage of money in their pockets. Many people buy land and buy shops, and learn from the Lord Earl to set up businesses, and the benefits are high.

  For example, the copper pipe factory, connector factory, rubber pipe fitting factory, etc. supporting the Songjiang base of General Machinery Factory, there are the shadows of these Red River Valley bigwigs behind them, and they all make a lot of money.

Returning to the topic of Beishan Iron Mine, a 40-kilometer dedicated railway line is under construction, and related mining equipment is in place one after another. Miners will also be resettled through formal recruitment channels. At this stage, there will be no less than 2,000 miners, which is another large scale. Miner Town.

  Li Fushou said at the meeting that key support policies will be adopted for Beishan Iron Mine, and funding and policies will be tilted to help enterprises reach production as soon as possible.

  In addition, the first bridge across the Huangpu River is also on the agenda, changing the situation that has always relied on ferry boats, which is of great significance to the communication of the flow of people and logistics on both sides of the Huangpu River.

  At the meeting

The proposal for the development of education proposed by relevant personnel, especially the construction of a college of engineering and a comprehensive education system from elementary school to middle school, has attracted great attention from Li Fushou. The proposal instructs the secretariat to continue to follow up and solicit opinions from enterprises. , Carry out rigorous and serious argumentation,

  The development of Songjiang Town today is a bit deformed, with full bloom in industry and agriculture, and relatively backward cultural health such as education and medical care.

  Especially the education industry has obvious faults. This kind of problem not only exists in Songjiang Town, but also exists in other emerging towns.

  Previously, in order to cope with the increasing number of students from the "Young Eagle Project" from the mainland, all townships were ordered to establish corresponding middle schools. Under the above order, middle schools have sprung up in all townships.

Red River Valley allocated special funds for this purpose, and selected outstanding graduates from River Valley University and the University of Brisbane to teach in various schools, and built 27 secondary schools. These secondary schools are the same as those in Qinglong City. Only the high school department does not have a middle school department. Both are two years of schooling.

  This has formed a strange phenomenon. All cities and towns have middle schools but no primary schools, let alone kindergartens, and there is no such thing as kindergartens in this era.

  In fact, Li Fushou cannot be blamed, because the age group from 5 to 15 years old is almost a blank, and there are too few school-age children.

When Li Fushou first set foot on the land of Australia in 1876, Chinese immigrants were basically unable to obtain the local household registration certificate. Not only did they have to endure the exploitation and discrimination policies of white people, they also could not obtain legal marriage qualifications and were not allowed to enter the church. Not to mention having children.

  This evil policy originated from Citi, and it was copied by Australia.

  Until the large-scale introduction of tens of thousands of native white women from Central American concentration camps and the start of the immigration policy from the mainland, this beautiful and fertile land will have babies with Chinese blood to fall, and it will take less than 6 years to complete it.

  The first batch of children have just turned 5 years old, and the young men and women who migrated from the mainland are at least 16 years old. This has created an 11-year education gap and it takes time to make up for such trauma.

  The literacy classes and literacy classes that were persisted in the early years have gradually faded after a large number of students of the Young Eagle Project entered the society, and Red River Valley no longer allocates special funds for this purpose.

  The educational achievements of such literacy classes and literacy classes are very limited. Adults are forced to live without learning, or simply can’t sit down. In this case, the effect of drinking water on the cow’s head is conceivable, and they simply stop.

  Nowadays, the scale of immigrants is getting bigger and bigger. It is obviously unrealistic to continue to support literacy education for millions of immigrants independently by Lord Earl.

  The reason why Li Fushou made great efforts to organize literacy classes and literacy classes, Li Fushou’s starting point and ideas were good, but he took it for granted. The facts proved that it did not work, but it caused complaints.

  The money should be turned to increase the investment in the "Young Eagle Project" to cultivate a group of loyal and faithful young people. This is also the obvious change in the immigration policy.

  It seems that young people are still malleable. The effect of repeated indoctrination of **** education is very good. It is a basic strategy that must be adhered to in the long run. This point has already reached a consensus in the Red River Valley.

  In the future, whether it is 20 years, 30 years or even longer, we must persevere in it.

  (End of this chapter)