Rise of the Argentine Empire

President Frondizi's visit to Washington caused a stir both domestically and internationally. Before the Perón era, Argentina had always been at odds with the United States, even attempting to pursue a so-called "third way."

In previous Argentine public opinion, or rather, in Perón's propaganda, the United States had always been portrayed as the enemy. Now, to formally conduct a state visit to Washington, to attract investment is one thing, but to go to Washington to pay homage is a complete compromise.

The CIA's infiltration of the American backyard has reached a very high level, and many countries have already replaced their leaders with pro-American figures.

Argentina once had the potential to be a major power, considering itself the little hegemon of South America. Now that it has declined and compromised with the United States, it has first aroused dissatisfaction among the military. At the same time, the labor class also feels dissatisfied, all believing this to be a betrayal of Peronism.

From the perspective of the left-wing labor class, the presidential palace's recent move to attract British and American foreign investment into the country and grant oil exploration rights in the Patagonia region to Standard Oil of the United States is already an act of selling out national interests.

Among them, Southern Oil Company and Argentina's national oil company strongly opposed it, demanding the right to co-develop. Public opinion also suspects the presidential palace of selling Argentine national assets at a low price, and the Congress cannot stall this bill for much longer.

Now, the presidential palace also plans to reform inefficient state-owned industries, lay off workers, and suppress the labor movement, which is a complete departure from Peronism.

From the perspective of the right-wing military, the current presidential palace's excessive emphasis on industry and neglect of agriculture has already dissatisfied them. Now, the military represents Argentina's agricultural groups and military-industrial complex.

In the past, Argentina's exports were mainly agricultural and pastoral products, with extremely low surplus value. In addition, private ownership kept foreign exchange in the hands of private companies. The presidential palace lacked money and could only rely on printing pesos to exchange for US dollars.

The presidential palace's massive printing of pesos led to inflation. This is actually very strange in a country like Argentina, because inflation is often caused by a shortage of living materials. As a sparsely populated major exporter of grain and meat, this is quite rare.

In the past, most of Argentina's foreign exchange was basically created and controlled by agricultural and pastoral interest groups. During the Perón era, it was centrally returned to the export sector, that is, the presidential palace, but after Perón's downfall, it returned to the hands of private companies.

The Argentine government's foreign exchange was almost spent by Perón, and subsequent military governments have also faced a shortage of foreign exchange.

In the past five years, the city of Blanca has promoted rapid industrialization, and its industrial production capacity has increased year by year, especially with key investments in steel, machinery, automobiles, electricity, and the chemical industry. It has provided a large amount of machinery and high-quality agrochemical fertilizer products for the agricultural development of La Pampa Province, and brought sufficient water and electricity supply to the city, allowing the economy of La Pampa Province to develop comprehensively.

The inflation situation in the entire La Pampa Province has also been alleviated and improved. In the past two years, by increasing the export of various industrial finished products and raw materials for the steel and chemical industries, the foreign exchange earned has increased substantially, completely exceeding that of the agricultural sector.

Although Western countries are still implementing certain trade protectionism policies, they no longer restrict labor-intensive products, so the export of clothing, toys, leather and other products produced in Argentina has been rapidly expanded, with a large market.

Industries such as steel, petrochemicals, automobiles, shipbuilding, and machinery manufacturing mainly meet the needs of Argentina and neighboring countries.

Throughout the 1950s, with the recovery and development of the domestic economy, the average tariffs of developed countries in Europe, such as France and the United Kingdom, fell from 40% to about 10%, giving Argentine manufacturing a large number of opportunities. This is also the reason why Saint Hilaire's promotion of export-oriented industrialization was successful.

Developing countries and regions in Latin America have changed their previous high-tariff protection policies, with average tariffs falling to 20%, which will also greatly promote the growth of international trade. La Pampa Province does not lack foreign trade markets.

Now, the city of Blanca is borrowing heavily and issuing bonds. With the rapid economic growth and the development of foreign trade, the city of Blanca can completely repay them, so it can easily obtain a large number of loans and funds for construction.

The annual economic growth is ridiculously high, and many domestic private companies and foreign banks are willing to lend money to the city of Blanca. Ordinary people also believe that this is a very good way to manage money and obtain returns.

Through the development of industry, Saint Hilaire proved that Argentina can also engage in industrialization, and can do it well.

Now, with the example of the city of Blanca proving that the era of agricultural and pastoral dominance is gone, there is only a dead end without industrialization.

The new presidential palace advocates democracy, demanding the lifting of the previous military government's ban on public participation in politics, giving Peronists the opportunity to come to power, which the military believes must be sanctioned.

Saint Hilaire is also taking this opportunity to go to Córdoba to communicate and negotiate cooperation, seeking a glimmer of hope. La Pampa Province itself is part of the Pampas grasslands.

Moreover, because the provincial governments in Argentina are unwilling to pay taxes to the central government, they have a high degree of freedom. Except that they are not separate countries, they are basically the same. Strictly speaking, they are not very much under the control of the presidential palace.

But this does not mean that the Cohen Consortium and the not-yet-fully-developed city of Blanca can face competition from powerful multinational corporations.

This is the reason why Saint Hilaire wants to concentrate the power of the municipal council and carry out reforms. This is the power granted to him by the Constitution of La Pampa Province, and he must integrate sufficient resources to take on his responsibilities.

In a series of interconnected events, the presidential palace has no money, and in the past, it could only print banknotes, or develop industry and obtain foreign investment. Obviously, the latter path is more feasible.

Although Córdoba is the military's base camp and an important stronghold of large landowners, farmers, and pastoral groups, it is relatively open.

Mainly because of the emergence of this nail, the city of San Martin, the profit margin of industry and commerce is indeed much larger than that of agriculture and animal husbandry. Without affecting their interests, they also want to cooperate with the city of Blanca.

Many of the economic development methods of the current presidential palace and Saint Hilaire are similar, which is actually closely related to him, or rather, has strengthened this trend.

Saint Hilaire has established relatively close ties with the current Minister of Economy, Minister of Finance, and Director-General of Customs, and can even influence some decisions of the presidential palace.

As a local power figure of the uncompromising Radical Civic Union, Saint Hilaire's position can also be ranked in the top ten.

The Radical Party has always been the middle-of-the-road party in Argentina, neither leaning towards the military nor relying too much on the labor class. It may be fine during stable periods, but now it is displeasing both sides.

After Frondizi came to power, because Argentina's foreign exchange had been depleted and it could no longer continue to subsidize state-owned industries, he had to make changes.

But neither the labor class nor the military are good at economic development. Their representatives are Peronism and the previous two military governments. Currently, only the Radical Party can handle this matter.

Saint Hilaire did not hold any important positions in the new presidential palace, but his weight is indeed considerable.

The rapid economic development and reforms in the city of Blanca have also attracted the attention of many people. Many of his development opinions have been submitted to the Congress through the deputies of La Pampa Province, and some have been directly reported to the presidential palace.

As a small and new province, La Pampa Province does not have too complicated interest relationships, and the resistance to reforms is not so great. Even if there is, it has been swept away by Saint Hilaire.

This time, courting or rather showing goodwill to Córdoba is also based on some considerations.

The Frondizi government has formulated an economic policy of "attracting foreign investment + import substitution." Senior officials of the presidential palace are rushing to Europe and the United States to vigorously conduct investment promotion, which is both a good thing and a bad thing.

Although the US economy also grew and experienced relative prosperity throughout the 1950s, its growth rate was far lower than that of Western Europe and Japan, and was only higher than that of the United Kingdom among major capitalist countries.

The reason for this situation is that the US wage costs are high and labor productivity is much lower than that of other developed countries except the UK.

The United States began to vigorously develop multinational corporations in the 1950s, and foreign investment grew rapidly. In the past, it was mainly Europe and Japan, but now the Latin American region has also begun to receive investment.

Redwood Capital in New York, after extensive investigation by the FBI and the expenditure of large political donations, finally gained a chance to breathe.

Faced with various complex economic problems, the Frondizi government accelerated the industrialization process, which was both a good and a bad thing for Saint Hesser, even though it very likely accelerated his downfall.

Saint Hesser also established connections with countries such as Italy and France, but many of these were before policy formulation and were not mainstream.

Now, British capital has re-entered the Argentine railway industry, American Standard Oil has obtained Argentine oil mining rights, and 23 automobile manufacturers such as Citroen and Ford are preparing to open factories in Argentina.

It is foreseeable that with the help of British and American foreign capital, Argentina's automobile, petrochemical, and steel industries will advance by leaps and bounds, but it will also bring great competitive pressure to the Cohen Consortium, and Saint Hesser must take precautions in advance.

In addition to heavy chemical industries such as oil and steel, some new multinational corporations such as IBM, DuPont, and Monsanto are also preparing to enter the Argentine market, posing as powerful opponents to Enko Electric Argentina, Maya Chemical, Future Agriculture, Andes Tobacco, and Barron Bank, but also providing good opportunities for development and expansion.

At that time, a large number of Argentine companies will go bankrupt, close down, or even be acquired. This is unavoidable. The Cohen Consortium will also face great difficulties. However, Saint Hesser, who has become a high-ranking official, will not be afraid of these multinational corporations. Only a real fight will reveal their true colors.

In fact, Southern Petroleum faces the greatest pressure, not only from the suppression of the national oil company but also from the competition of Standard Oil. Fortunately, with the foreign aid of Italian oil, it is not too afraid.

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Saint Hesser's think tank continues to closely monitor population growth in La Pampa Province and throughout Argentina, and is taking various measures to attract more people to La Pampa Province. They are all staunch supporters of population increase and firmly united around Saint Hesser.

They advocate promoting the sustainable development of society and the economy by increasing the population, firmly believing in the creed that with people, there is everything, making population growth extremely important.

In order to achieve the goal of increasing the population, the La Pampa Provincial Government has adopted a series of population-increasing policies and is constantly adjusting them.

The official and non-official propaganda machines have not stopped promoting the benefits of having more children, forming a good social atmosphere.

The most important measure is to conduct administrative assessments of administrative officials, combining population growth with the governance of the municipal government.

Children are protected through administrative legislation, financial allocations are used to improve the level of maternal and child medical care in basic hospitals, and women's personal income tax is reduced, employment subsidies during pregnancy are increased, and housing subsidies and purchase discounts can be obtained.

Legal restrictions are imposed on the promotion, production, sale, and import of various birth control measures, and products such as condoms are prohibited from being sold.

The La Pampa Provincial Government attaches importance to the marriage of widowers and widows, while encouraging people who have reached the legal marriage age to marry in a timely manner, reducing the cost of marriage registration, actively providing assistance to families with many children, reducing the cost of raising children, and establishing a large number of nurseries, and orphaned children are also treated kindly.

The La Pampa Administrative Office has formed a package of programs and measures to effectively increase the growth of the local population while attracting foreign populations. Those who reside for more than half a year and register can receive the same civic benefits.

The real trump card is something that cannot be handled by the municipal government, which is to attract new immigrants.

Prari International's cargo ship tonnage has increased to 800,000 tons, one step closer to becoming the world's shipping magnate. Saint Hesser has also established Southern Cargo, specializing in the transportation of iron ore and coal, while Blanca Steel and La Plata Steel have successively established their own cargo companies.

In the past few years, Blanca City has opened sea passenger routes to 13 countries in Latin America. Opening international passenger ships can obtain new immigrants as quickly as possible and take them away in one package.

The international freight forwarding industry has also begun to develop, and many private shipping companies have been established. One or two large freighters can transport goods, especially import and export trade businesses.

Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile, and Paraguay are the five countries with the most immigrants to Argentina in the past year.

The industrialization promoted by Latin America with an import substitution strategy is carried out in their respective closed countries. The small domestic market and little inter-regional trade have resulted in high production costs in various countries.

Of course, with the development of the industrialization process, the production of goods exceeds the limitations of domestic demand, and trade between Latin American countries needs to be expanded. The increase in international exchanges and the opening of passenger and freight routes have allowed Argentina to start receiving new immigrants again.

With the slow progress of industrialization and the excessive issuance of currency, the gap between the rich and the poor in many Latin American countries has further widened, prices have soared, housing prices soared last year and rents are now soaring, loan interest rates have doubled, public security has deteriorated significantly, and the number of jobs has not increased.

In an era of comparing who is worse, compared to neighboring countries, Argentina is sparsely populated, has many jobs, has convenient access to passports, and has good wages. In addition, with the opening of passenger routes and publicity, Blanca City has naturally become famous.

In 1958, Blanca City received as many as 260,000 new immigrants, an average of more than 20,000 people per month. The number for La Pampa Province was 340,000, and the number for Argentina as a whole was 760,000.

Saint Hesser will not miss this good opportunity to increase the population, giving Blanca City the best quality policies, bringing various jobs to Blanca City, and reaping the population heavily.

The huge population management has spawned the reform of administrative population management. It is not easy to manage such a city. Although it cannot satisfy everyone, Saint Hesser has done a very good job by absorbing a large number of population management methods from New China.

During his tenure as Mayor of Blanca City, Saint Hesser pioneered the combination of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Police Department, the Immigration Bureau, the Labor Security Office, and the grassroots Radical Party in population management to form an efficient internal affairs management department, which can allow Blanca City to accommodate a large number of new residents.

The new Police Department has the power to legally collect, confirm, and provide basic administrative information on the personal identity, family relationship, address, origin, and date of birth of Argentine citizens and non-citizens, and can jointly enforce the law with the other three departments.

In this way, the efficiency of population management has been greatly improved compared to the past, and it is very efficient. Two to three million people in Blanca City can also be managed very well without being in chaos.

The Police Department can quickly identify the identity of people in Blanca City for effective management.

Among them, the most important thing is the invention of identity cards and household registration books. This is an identity card jointly invented and produced by a chemical factory and a paper mill under Maya Chemical. The identity card uses certain anti-counterfeiting marks for effective verification.

The size of the card after polyester film lamination is a bit similar to the bank cards of later generations, but it is larger. Inside is a special anti-counterfeiting paper card with basic information such as name, residential address, gender, date of birth, etc.

This identity card is an important tool for Saint Hesser's population management, and the residence certificate is similar, except that it is called a residence permit card. With this card, you can freely go to any area of Blanca City, which is very convenient.

The household registration book is a booklet that records the information of all members of a family. It is also an important document for obtaining newborn subsidies and cheap housing subsidies, and can be verified against the identity card.

Maya Chemical is now even larger. Thanks to the development of Southern Petroleum, it has penetrated deeper into all aspects of the chemical industry. In 1958, its operating scale reached 140 million US dollars and is still expanding rapidly.

Military coups have occurred in neighboring countries one after another, the economy has been intermittently declining, and the unemployment rate has soared. Argentina's economy has improved relatively a lot, and there are many jobs in Blanca City, with a huge demand for workers.

Obviously, Argentina is getting rid of the backwardness of industry, and with the development of the export-oriented processing trade economy led by La Pampa Province, a large number of cheap laborers are urgently needed.

Through low-priced ticket subsidies, Prari International's passenger routes have been established in large numbers. At first, snakeheads deceived and tricked young people into Blanca.

But for them, it is indeed like heaven. Cheap housing and living materials, and free training provided by the municipal government, can quickly obtain jobs.

In Blanca City, tall buildings stand, the lights are bright, wealth gathers, clean and spacious roads, beautifully green streets, convenient service facilities, and most importantly, there are enough jobs here.

Unlike their hometown, there is a lack of jobs and prices are soaring. As long as you come here, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can find a suitable job.

Everything in the city was what they had dreamed of, something many countries didn't have. The capitals of those countries were flooded with too many displaced farmers, lacking housing, and were already forming the beginnings of slums.

In contrast, the city of Blanca had an oversupply of apartment buildings, forming vast amounts of affordable housing, supplied and managed by the city hall, matching Argentina's lowest rent levels, and equipped with complete water and electricity facilities.

The construction of these apartment buildings alone drove industries that could contribute at least 100,000 jobs to Blanca, promoting the development of the real estate construction industry chain and boosting the development of Blanca's metallurgy, minerals, transportation, food and beverage, retail, building materials, furniture, decoration, communication, and so on, making it a very powerful weapon.

And this was not even the complete version of the real estate industry. It was said that in later generations, New China's real estate industry could drive the development of 500 industries and 2,000 professions, and then housing prices in all cities would start to rise. However, Saint-Hosea couldn't afford a house in those later generations.

Currently, it was not difficult for people in Blanca to buy property. The annual increase in housing prices was under official control, and the massive supply also prevented prices from rising too much. Saint-Hosea didn't want housing prices to affect residents' lives.

Blanca also generated an attraction effect, leading to the emergence of formalized international workers who could directly obtain residency cards upon arriving in Blanca.

International workers who obtained residency cards could obtain six months of residency rights. Within those six months, they could freely work and reside in La Pampa Province. After six months, they could choose to extend their stay. As long as they obeyed the law, they would not be deported even without a job.

Moreover, La Pampa Province issued a large number of nationality certificates every year, or through population censuses, converting foreign workers into Argentine citizens in extremely large numbers.

New immigrants seeking employment also flocked to Blanca in large numbers. Coincidentally, Blanca expanded its territory and established many new factories. After simple training, younger new immigrants could easily find jobs. High-quality jobs like those in state-owned factories were more oriented towards Argentine citizens.

Older immigrants might have a little more trouble, but Saint-Hosea had already thought of how to solve their problems, which was the massive tertiary industry. Blanca was possibly the greatest city in Argentina's history because it established the largest tertiary industry.

Why wouldn't you worry about unemployment in Blanca, even if you were forty or fifty years old, not flexible enough, or not physically fit enough for the hard construction industry, unable to pass the training to enter the factory?

Saint-Hosea found them jobs, which was the massive individual commercial sector: restaurants, convenience stores, department store supermarkets, warehouse management, cargo transportation and handling, basic security, childcare, hospital odd jobs, nannies, and a whole bunch of other jobs. They accommodated 90% of the employed population over 40 in Blanca.

For Saint-Hosea, having people meant having everything. Young people had the value of young people, and middle-aged people naturally had the value of middle-aged people.

Hardworking Bolivian and Chilean farmers were transformed into members of the large-scale construction sites in La Pampa Province, engaged in construction and road construction work.

La Pampa Province launched the fastest urbanization in Argentine history, with 13 cities expanding by borrowing money, with Blanca being the largest in scale.

Paraguayans flocked to Argentina's sparsely populated northeastern cotton fields and sugarcane fields, developing cash crops.

Middle-aged people with skills became chefs, middle-aged people without skills became dishwashers, young people became construction workers, and older people could sweep the floor and take out the trash. They all had a bright future.

The mechanization of paddy fields in the southern region also required a large amount of labor. Bankrupt Brazilian and Peruvian farmers also poured into La Pampa Province and Rio Negro Province. These two southern provinces were developing farmland and water conservancy facilities on a large scale, which could provide huge employment opportunities.

It was just that these population policies were mostly based on not-so-glorious bills and also had various problems and even darkness. Therefore, Saint-Hosea also hoped to have better methods, but this was difficult and would have a huge impact on economic development.

But to be honest, such gender equality and the improvement of women's status could only be achieved by the heroic New China and the Soviet people.

Argentina was just a country on the verge of bankruptcy at any time, and striving to survive was the Argentine nation's primary demand.

And to become a great country, it must have enough people.

From 1952 to 1956, the Presidential Palace successively granted absolute power to the provinces of Patagonia, giving the provinces south of La Pampa Province the same political status as other traditional provinces in Argentina, and obtaining seats in Congress. While preventing division, it also completely digested Patagonia.

The Presidential Palace's initial agreement to divide Blanca and the surrounding land to La Pampa Province and Rio Negro Province was also due to this reason. La Pampa Province was, after all, a young province. If it could really shoulder the banner of developing the southern economy, the division of Buenos Aires Province would also be beneficial to the interests of the entire country of Argentina.

Now that Argentine conservatism was rising, a more open province was also needed.

Saint-Hosea had advocated for the large-scale development of northern Argentina at the Radical Party conference in 1952, but it had not made much progress. Although northern Argentina had developed to a certain extent in the past six years, it was still far behind Buenos Aires.

Now Saint-Hosea advocated for a "Southern Development Economic Strategy" for southern Argentina. Six provinces finalized an agreement, allowing La Pampa Province to gain an economic advantage over the southern provinces. Now, this strategy was being implemented step by step, and the Southern Development Agreement was being implemented.

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The actual managed population of Blanca could basically be determined to be exceeding that of Buenos Aires, but not many people in the country recognized it. In fact, the reason was very simple, which was that Blanca's urban management area was too large.

The area of ​​Buenos Aires was only 203 square kilometers, with a population of nearly 3 million in the urban area. The population of Greater Buenos Aires was originally more than 7 million, but including the suburbs, the area reached 4,326 square kilometers, with a population of 6.43 million, a loss of nearly 800,000 people compared to the Peron era.

The area of ​​Blanca after the merger with Choele Choel was 11,934 square kilometers, which was 58.7 times that of Buenos Aires. Strictly speaking, only the East District and West District were the traditional urban areas of Argentina, and these two districts together only had 688,000 people, but if the original Alta District was added, there would be 1.607 million people, which was also the second largest city in Argentina.

Therefore, the different statistical methods made many people have different calculation methods for cities. As of now, the actual managed population of Blanca was very likely to exceed 3.2 million, exceeding that of Buenos Aires.

Many large cities in the country had begun to learn from Blanca and carry out mergers. Cordoba, Rosario, and La Plata also merged with satellite towns respectively. Although they were not as large as Blanca, the reserve land resources for industrial competition were indeed much more abundant.

The development of large factories required a large enough area. An automobile industrial park alone exceeded 300 square kilometers, which could bring hundreds of thousands of jobs.

At the La Pampa Provincial Economic Summary Meeting,

"It is indeed very difficult for our province to achieve this result in 1958. The gap between us and Brazil is actually still very large, and the gap between us and Europe and the United States is even greater. We still have to continue to work hard. Now the global economy is developing rapidly, New China, Japan."

"In the past year, the fastest growing was still the private economy. 97% of the newly established commercial enterprises were private companies, and the economic proportion of private companies was also steadily increasing."

"The industrial growth of the new Alta District was still the fastest. The driving effect of large industrial projects was very obvious. The Southern Petroleum Project, the construction of the three major steel plants, and the Leyton Automobile Factory, together with their surrounding supporting facilities, all drove more than 100,000 jobs."

"This year, we will continue to do a good job in the overall planning of Blanca, while connecting well with the industrial and trade development of coastal cities, supporting labor-intensive industries. La Pampa Province must add another 1-1.5 million people this year, and Blanca must solve more than half of them."

Saint-Hosea remained optimistic about population growth. The base of Blanca had doubled, and the construction of water plants and power plants was coming to an end, which was enough to meet the development of Blanca. The three coastal cities were also being built on a scale of one million people, which could strongly stimulate economic and industrial development.

"Of the cities, Otto is developing the fastest, with its population already reaching 300,000. The cities of Brato and Puerto Colorado have also grown to 200,000. This year, these three cities will receive 20 million US dollars in construction funds, and 3-5 large factories will be established to develop foreign trade and industry, and build bonded zones…"

The three coastal cities are the focus of La Pampa Province's development in the coming years, and the provincial government has invited the country's most talented urban planning and design team to conduct urban development planning.

Now all three cities have highways, and the ports have been built. In the future, railway stations, airports, and industries must keep up.

"The city of Blanca must not only develop itself, but also lead the industrial development of the entire La Pampa Province, and have its own solid rear base."

Argentina's unified national market has not yet fully formed, and the potential of each province has not yet been fully released. This visit also has the meaning of opening up the market through cooperation.

The changes in the city of Cordoba are encouraging. Although it started as a simple administrative merger, each free city is a miniature version of a small, artificially divided market.

Cordoba's merger of satellite towns and annexation of free cities is not just an expansion in area. The power of a metropolitan area is much stronger than that of a narrow area. Through administrative integration, it can rapidly improve economic development potential and is also conducive to concentrating power.

Western countries rarely have metropolitan areas. The free cities that have been split off are not even as large as a district or county in the New China of later generations, and cannot form a strong centralization of power.

The prefecture-level city formed by the merger of cities and regions is one of the greatest administrative practices since the establishment of New China. A prefecture-level city is a metropolitan area, and with unified finances and power, the economy can achieve rapid development, fully utilizing the power of the municipal government to coordinate, allocate, and integrate hospitals from all parties, and quickly complete infrastructure construction.

Moreover, an excellent civil servant who can lead the development of a district or county, chosen from competition among 14 districts and counties, can fully lead a city. Someone chosen from competition among 13 metropolitan areas can very well lead La Pampa Province. He is not worried about not being able to select outstanding talents.

Talent selected from such a complex situation is fully qualified to lead Argentina.

"We must pay attention to the automotive industry. The development of the automotive industry is the focus of the next 10 years. Currently, our province has two complete vehicle manufacturers, one is Leighton Motors and the other is Ditellia Motors. These need to be given key support."

The total turnover of Leighton Motors Industrial Group exceeds 100 million US dollars. In the past year, it sold 58,000 vehicles, making it the largest automobile company in Argentina. It is now facing a joint strangulation by foreign automobile factories. The provinces of Buenos Aires and Cordoba have signed cooperation agreements with 23 automobile factories to establish production lines.

"The automotive industry can drive the development of more than 100 related industries. Upstream industries include steel, machinery, rubber, electronics, petrochemicals, glass, and textiles; downstream industries involve sales, finance, insurance, gas stations, maintenance, logistics, catering, hotels, and other industries. It is one of the largest industrial industries with the longest industrial chain, and we must take it down…"

"I propose the establishment of an automotive industry development working group, headed by myself, to introduce special policies to promote the development of the Blanca City automotive industry, giving key support in terms of technological innovation, product research and development, brand building, financing channels, intellectual support, and element guarantees…"

The automotive industry is a super industry comparable to the real estate industry, and is the pearl on the crown of human industry.

In the past, Blanca City had a weak foundation, few talents, and faced many difficulties in developing the automotive industry.

Now, the machinery processing industry has developed. Philip Industry's motorcycle factory, tractor factory, agricultural tricycle factory, Xinke'en Heavy Industry's truck factory, Leighton Motorcycle Factory, Zanella Company's Blanca Motorcycle Factory, Blanca City Precision Machine Tool Factory, and a large number of machinery processing plants, and hundreds of auto parts suppliers.

The Eastern Automobile Industrial Zone has been upgraded from 20 square kilometers to a 300 square kilometer automobile industrial park, managed by the Calderón District. Ditellia Motors also benefits here. The first batch of 3,000 vehicles is about to roll off the production line, which is twice the original 1,500 vehicles. The time is one year earlier, and the quality is better. It is a truly Argentine-designed car, but many parts are imported.

Although the Thor car-making plan has not been completely successful, it has also planted a seed for Leighton Motors. The localization of the Fiat 600 has been successful.

Now it is possible to start the second step of the car-making plan, designing Argentina's own car, starting from imitation and cottage. The trademarks registered by the Thor plan, Lexus, Wuling, etc., still have to be shelved, and using them would become a shame.

Natalie is truly responsible for the construction of Leighton Motors' new factory, imitating world-renowned cars, and then localizing them, designing new cars from scratch.

Foreign exchange reserves have increased, and he also has the gold-lettered sign of German Audi in his hands. It is also time to put some pressure on them. He plans to use Audi to set up a brand new complete vehicle factory in Blanca City, and at the same time comprehensively integrate and upgrade Leighton Motors.

In San José's view, it only makes sense to talk about dividing the cake if the cake is made bigger. If the economy cannot be developed rapidly, then it is the dereliction of duty of the chief executive. Therefore, San José is never afraid of a large influx of population, and even accelerates population growth. He is not afraid of not having work. That is simply impossible. San José even hopes that the more people, the better.

The automotive industry, textile and apparel industry, catering services, department stores, construction, and toy and furniture manufacturing are all major employers, and La Pampa Province can maintain this growth rate.

Blanca City has shortcomings in education and medical care? San José is not afraid at all. As long as universal basic medical care and basic education are guaranteed, the rich can go to Buenos Aires for medical treatment, and the university can be built slowly. As long as there is enough fiscal revenue, higher education and medical care will develop in the future.

Blanca City focuses on investing in infrastructure that drives overall productivity and develops industry. In essence, it is meeting the more basic needs of Blanca City residents for survival and development by sacrificing more advanced needs such as medical care, education, high welfare, and high social security.

La Pampa Province has the lowest social expenditure of all provinces in Argentina. Destructive strikes are strictly prohibited. Those who organize strikes for no reason and have a huge impact on development will be sent to Ushuaia to step on sewing machines. Legitimate social needs can be resolved through consultation with the district government where they are located.

Reflecting on employment, the unemployment rate in La Pampa Province is 1.1%; while in Buenos Aires Province, which has a population of 10.87 million, the unemployment rate is as high as 8.1%, and the unemployment rate in the capital, Buenos Aires, is also as high as 5.9%. Therefore, the population inflow in La Pampa Province is still accelerating.

Originally, Buenos Aires Province had nearly a hundred free cities. Only La Plata, Puerto Blanca, and a few free cities around Buenos Aires developed well.

The separated Puerto Blanca, through mergers and expansions, has formed a huge area, managing 9 districts and 6 counties, and its economy is catching up with Buenos Aires at a leapfrog speed, instead of disorderly competition and infighting.

The Alta District is a model of development in Blanca City. Through institutional reforms, it has "created something from nothing" and created a powerful industrial park, which ultimately promoted the specialized economy of the local area.

Next, the La Pampa Provincial Government needs to rely on preferential policies and high-quality services to attract large-scale foreign investment and vigorously develop manufacturing.

In La Pampa Province, it is much easier to open a factory, because permits, business licenses, and environmental permits can be processed quickly.

Two-way four-lane coastal highways have become the standard configuration of La Pampa Province's infrastructure. If financial loans were not prohibited, San José would have planned to build two-way six-lane highways.

With the growth of the population of Blanca City, the educational problems in the primary infrastructure stage have also become a big trouble for La Pampa Province.

Basic education in Argentina is the responsibility of the provinces and free cities, and the textbooks are formulated by the Provincial Department of Education. The educational problems of such a large population also need to be carefully considered.