Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 459 Population Structure

  Leaving the secretariat, Li Fushou did not let other people accompany him, so that they could continue to work with peace of mind. He still only took Fu Peng and Li Sixian forward.

  The road steps down, and not far ahead is a lush garden, full of flowers in full bloom, colorful and beautiful, and the sound of birdsong from the jungle adds a natural atmosphere.

  The garden was divided into a left and one right. There was a heavily guarded sentry post. The fully armed guards were on duty. Seeing the Lord Earl, they all stood up and saluted.

Going to the left is the centralized office area of ​​various agencies under the Red Fort. This is a Chinese-style pavilion complex with the telegraph office of the secretariat, the field liaison office, the government office, the military office, the economic office, the audit office and the statistical affairs department. The government, the military, and enterprises are seamlessly connected.

It also has the Political Affairs Office, the Public Security Office, the Audit and Audit Office, the Immigration Office, the Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Development Office, the Finance and Taxation Office, the Civil Affairs Office, the Legal Office, the Police Office, the Urban Construction Office and other institutions. Issued, command the huge Queensland forces to operate in an orderly manner according to the established trajectory.

Go to the right and pass a moon gate, and then pass a sentry post. You can see the Chinese-style buildings in the woods. This building is much smaller, mainly the various departments of the Hongbao Internal Affairs Office, and the most important one is the interior. The accountant is in charge of Chen Shiheng, the general manager.

The importance of the internal tents can be seen from a single figure. Almost 80% of the funds for infrastructure construction in the Earls Territory come from the internal tents, which are of the nature of grants. Nearly 40% of the construction funds in other parts of Queensland also come from this, which belongs to investment. Nature, this is by no means the same.

  Li Fushou replied with a slight jaw, and took a few people around him to the left, and briefly inspected the central office area...

  After a while

  Returning to the Lingxiao Pavilion, Li Fushou rubbed his sour calves. After a brief lunch, he called in his private massage therapist Chris to give a full massage.

  Chrissy’s massage technique became more sophisticated and sophisticated, lightly pounding, with just the right strength, Li Fushou fell asleep unconsciously on the soft massage bed.

  After a nap, resurrect with full blood and rejuvenation.

  A thick and neatly bound confidential document has been placed on the large desk. The title page reads "Summary of the 1885 National Development Economic Report-Immigration", which always seems to be as thick as a primary school Chinese textbook.

  Li Fushou simply flipped through the document. The document listed detailed immigration figures, how many people were from which province, what occupations, the ratio of men to women, age composition, etc., and detailed statistics on immigrants in each city and town were included.

  Specific details Li Fushou will not pay too much attention to it. This is the information that the Secretariat will forward to the internal service for archiving. Specific to the detailed information of each immigrant, it is the information that can be loaded with several carriages.

  In the beginning, I discussed the important role of immigration. Ignore the basics of Queensland's economic boom, and turn directly to the summary.

  1885 year

   is the first year of the implementation of China’s immigration policy. For 12 months in the whole year, the total number of immigrants reached 1,578,200, including 1,162,100 male immigrants and 416,100 female immigrants. The gender ratio is relatively balanced.

  Chinese immigrants are mainly 14-28 years old, accounting for 93.22%, and the remaining age group accounts for 6.78%. Most of them are young and strong laborers and craftsmen with certain skills. The population age structure is generally younger.

  1885 was a year of great development, a year of more balanced population structure, and a year of breakthroughs in immigration policy.

The immigrant population exceeded 1.5 million for the first time in the whole year, an increase of 64.27% compared to the 964,000 Chinese immigrants in the previous year, achieving a historic breakthrough, breaking the one million immigrants and 1.5 million immigrants, becoming a boost One of the powerful driving forces for economic take-off.

  According to the population distribution;

The annual immigrant population inflow to Australia reached 866,600, of which female immigrants accounted for 39.7%, which greatly alleviated the sharp contradiction in the proportion of men and women in the society. In the whole year, the Civil Affairs Bureau registered a marriage of 514,900 pairs, and more than one million men and women walked. Entered the marriage hall and formed a happy family.

In 1885, the number of newborns born in the society reached 433,500, forming the first large-scale baby boom in Queensland. At the same time, it promoted the wedding economy, media economy, infant product economy, and real estate. Another strong driving force for economic development.

In view of the continuous influx of female immigrants in recent years, it is expected that the superimposed effect will begin to appear in 1886. The family married the previous year enters the childbearing period. On the high base of 1885, the explosive growth of newborns once again ushered in.

The total number of people in Australia exceeded 8 million for the first time, about 8.17 million (Southern Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, statistics are not accurate and can only be estimated), this is a very exciting Number.

  Among them, the number of descendants of whites (including English, French, German, American, Spanish, and Italian) has increased slightly to about 1,921,700, which is a slight increase of more than 50,000 from the more than 1.87 million in the previous year.

  Analyze its population composition, the annual inflow population reached 117,000, the outflow population reached 143,000, and the new-born population reached more than 77,000, showing a slight growth trend.

  The influx of whites is mostly European and American businessmen, explorers and crews. There are also some gold prospectors who come to Australia to look for opportunities. The background is more complicated and the purpose is different.

Most of the outflows are white men and women of 9 to 15 years old. Some white gold prospectors who earn the first pot of gold, farmers who are disappointed with the prospects and wealthy gold mine owners, and some white cowboys who are not looking for job opportunities .

  The indigenous population continues to decrease, from more than 80,000 in the early years to less than 50,000 today. Most of them have been integrated into society and engaged in various low-level jobs.

  Immigration from the East Indies (young women from Borneo not included) and Asan have increased from approximately 34,000 to 39,100.

  The main body of population growth comes from Chinese immigrants. The total number of Chinese immigrants in Australia has exceeded the 6 million mark, reaching 6.152 million, which is almost three times the population of other ethnic groups and has achieved a complete crush.

  Statistical data analysis shows that;

The population of Australia is extremely unevenly distributed. Central and southern Queensland and northern New South Wales (within the Earls Territory) are densely populated. There are many emerging towns, developed industries, and thriving agriculture and animal husbandry. The economic development is relatively high. The population per square kilometer is up to 27.6 people, the population size exceeded 5 million, accounting for more than 60% of the entire population of Australia.

  The state of Victoria is followed by a population of 3.1 people per square kilometer. They are mainly concentrated on more than 40,000 square kilometers of land in the surrounding area led by Melbourne. They are mainly engaged in gold mining, smelting trade, and supplemented by agriculture, animal husbandry and service industries.

The population density of New South Wales ranks third, with 1.7 people per square kilometer. It mainly lives in Sydney and its southern towns (not including the emerging towns in the earls), mostly engaged in animal husbandry, and the city of Sydney is well-developed. , With complete cultural, educational and trade facilities, it is one of Australia’s cultural and educational centers.

  South Australia ranks fourth in population density, with 0.08 people per square kilometer. The capital, Adelaide, has a population of 31,000. The state is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry.

  Tasmania ranks fifth in population density, with 0.017 people per square kilometer.

  Western Australia has the lowest population density, 0.003 people per square kilometer...

In summary

  The next step should be to continue to promote the development of northern Queensland, through policies to guide the rational flow of population, increase economic depth, rationally allocate resources, and to alleviate the contradictions between North and South, increase consensus, in order to achieve the goal of common development...

  More than 6 million?

  Li Fushou leaned on the large and comfortable chair with satisfaction and stretched out comfortably. He was sincerely happy with his achievements. It is not easy to reach this height today!

  I remember when I first set foot on Brisbane land in 1876, the entire population of Australia was just over 2 million. It looks like one or two hundred thousand more.

  White descent occupies the absolute mainstream. Chinese immigrants continue to flow in mainly gold prospectors. The total number is about three to four hundred thousand. Because there are no precise statistics at the time, it can only be roughly estimated.

  If the original history has not changed

  By 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia was established, with a total population of just over 3.8 million.

  Australian history has changed since 1876

After more than 10 years of hard work and continuous influx of large numbers of immigrants for many years, Australia, led by Queensland, has undergone earth-shaking changes. The Chinese immigrant population quickly caught up from a minority position, completed the surpassing, completed the crushing, and became the mainstream ethnic group in Australian society. .

Whether in Red River Valley City, Brisbane City, Songjiang City, Beilun City, or Qingdao Town, Burns, Darwin in the north of Queensland, you can see hard-working Chinese immigrants everywhere, and the Chinese dialed from Southern to North is flooded with Chinese. Signboards are everywhere, making people feel like they are in a Chinese town on the mainland.

Cut off the braids, and also reduce the weakness of slavery and beggar. The Chinese compatriots who immigrated to Australia have regained the spirit and spirit of the Han and Tang Dynasties, showing a different high spirit, with confidence between the eyebrows. And a happy smile.

  Li Fushou is deeply proud of this. The rich heritage left by the ancestors is so brilliant that it is not something that a dynasty can conceal. As long as there is suitable fertile soil and rain, he immediately grows up from the depths of his personality.

Huaxia culture has occupied the mainstream of the entire Queensland state. The school teaches Chinese Zhengyin. Both Chinese and white people like to eat Chinese food. Chinese newspapers are popular all over the world. Vinyl records recorded in Chinese are very popular. Youth wear (Chinese tunic suit), Cheongsam has become a social fashion, Taoist temples are everywhere in cities and towns, and white cowboys will use Chinese etiquette...

  The Chinese immigrants who moved from the mainland of China stubbornly maintained their own traditions, deeply influenced social customs, and took root in this continent.

Everything today is Li Fushou’s dream society, even more perfect than his dreams. In the city, the Chinese Medicine Museum stands side by side with the Western Hospital, the Taoist Temple and the church are facing each other across the street, and the white housewife carries a basket on her back and speaks of a big mess. Go shopping for groceries with an accent;

   "Big brother, how do you sell this bunch of cabbage?"

   "A bundle of six pennies."

   "It's too dark, right? The lamb is no more than seven pence a kilogram. Your cabbage is gilded! Aristocratic dishes...Why didn't I see the clan emblem?"

   "I love to buy or not to buy."

   "What's your attitude... Believe it or not, my big ears cut you?"

   "It's a bundle of six pennies to cut me, no bargaining is declined."

"Why are you so hard-hearted, do you want to talk about your wife in the future? Give the eldest sister a little bit cheaper, I will help you to see if there is any suitable, the eldest sister is enthusiastic, and you work in the second spinning mill. You know there are all women. ."

  "Stop teasing, sister, are they all married women?"

   "Look at what you are saying, there are tens of thousands of people... Don't you have a chance if there are not a few people who are not and divorced?"

  "In Queensland, there are not ten divorces in a year. I hope that after this good thing, I might as well sell vegetables and make money. It seems to be a little more reliable."

  "Hey...you bastard, why don't you get in the oil and salt? Five pennies in a bundle, eldest sister, I took it myself!"

   "Hey...sister, you... don't grab it..."

  (End of this chapter)