Chapter 1062: Transformation of Emerging Industries
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Seeing that the Second Five-Year Plan is also coming to an end, and the first decade of this century is about to end, East Africa's workload in 1909 will be much higher than at the end of the First Five-Year Plan.
"After the Second Five-Year Plan, my country's industrial achievements will definitely reach a new height, especially in the emerging industries. Through early layout, many of them have now developed very impressively and have become the most outstanding achievements in my country's export industry."
"Industries such as electricity, automobiles, tractors, shipbuilding, railways, petroleum, and chemicals have significantly enhanced the driving effect on my country's industrial system. These emerging industries are now or have become the main types of industries in the world, replacing some industries during the First Industrial Revolution, allowing my country to surpass 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 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 also be considered a traditional type of industry, especially in other countries. At present, railways have not undergone much change and are still in the steam age.
However, the situation in East Africa is different. After the industrial upgrading in East Africa, the railway has 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 also an emerging industry, rather than a general traditional industry. In addition, electric railways have appeared in East Africa, and the railway industry is still undergoing transformation.
The qualitative change in the railway industry has made East Africa, which was originally a weak country in the railway industry, leap into a world power in the railway manufacturing industry.
In terms of steam locomotives, it is difficult for East Africa to surpass Britain, France, Germany, the United States and other countries. Due to historical reasons, they have developed steam locomotives to the extreme, especially Britain, which was the earliest industrialized country. Its technology in the field of steam locomotives is unique in the world, and it is still making continuous progress while being far ahead.
Just like the era when the Far Eastern Empire developed oil cars in the past, it was difficult to surpass Germany and Japan. Although the Far Eastern Empire's automobile industry developed at an astonishing speed, this does not mean that the automobile industries of Germany and Japan are dead. They firmly hold the all-round advantages of the automobile industry and suppress the automobile industries of other countries through various means.
But when new energy vehicles appeared, the Far East Empire and the United States changed their development tracks at the same time, and Germany and Japan were completely at a loss.
East Africa is now in the railway industry. The internal combustion engine is equivalent to new energy, at least compared with the steam engine.
In the steam era, it was difficult for East Africa to surpass traditional industrial powers such as Britain, but it was completely different after changing the track. Although other countries in the world also had internal combustion locomotives on the railway at the same time, they were mainly experimental models, while East Africa had achieved large-scale production and equipment of internal combustion locomotives.
Therefore, the current world railways can be divided into two systems, mainly traditional steam locomotives or new internal combustion locomotives. There is no doubt that internal combustion locomotives are more advanced than steam locomotives, and will replace steam locomotives on a large scale in the future. This also means that over time, East African railways are actually ahead of other countries in the world.
This lead is mainly reflected in the change of technical systems. It is a fact that internal combustion locomotives are more efficient than steam locomotives, and East Africa has become the only country in the world to enter the era of railway internal combustion engines.
If this advantage is maintained, the East African railway industry can at least rely on its old capital for decades. After all, before the high-speed rail era in the previous life, diesel locomotives had the main advantage.
Of course, steam locomotives and diesel locomotives are still somewhat different. East Africa is definitely a diesel locomotive manufacturing power. It can only be ranked in the forefront in the field of steam locomotives. Steam locomotives still occupy a certain market in East Africa and have not been completely replaced. Therefore, the new and old forces in East African railways have not yet been completely replaced.
Diesel locomotives and steam locomotives cannot be simply compared together. In a certain sense, the two locomotives are actually two different things. Only when other countries' railways begin to turn to the era of internal combustion engines can the status of East Africa's railway manufacturing power be truly established more clearly.
The same is true in industries such as electricity. The power industry involves a wide range of fields. Before the advent of the power era, there was no corresponding reference. For example, the original main function of electricity was only for lighting, which corresponded to the role of gas lamps or candles at the time. However, with the development of electricity, it also played the role of coal as an industrial production energy source. With the advancement of electrification in East Africa, electricity is widely used in household appliances.
In general, electricity is an energy source, but it is obviously different from coal, natural gas and oil. However, with the development of the power industry, its great power is no less than coal, the most important basic energy 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 parallel development of coal, oil and electricity in the energy field of East Africa. Because of the promotion of the East African government, the natural gas industry is also accelerating its promotion and has become the fourth largest energy source after the first three.
"Emerging industries have achieved transformation in the two five-year plans and have become the main force in my country's industry and economy. We should no longer look at these industries with old eyes. These emerging industries have developed towards maturity and can fully play the role of the main force in the development of the country's industry."
“The maturity of emerging industries has enabled many industrial sectors in my country to overtake others. During the Second Five-Year Plan, my country’s industrial export value increased significantly driven by these emerging industries, achieving differentiated competition with other countries’ industrial products and becoming the flagship product of East Africa’s industrial exports.”
“This is something that traditional industries cannot do, because in many traditional industries, we have only achieved from scratch, but not from weak to strong. Moreover, if we want to catch up with and surpass other countries in traditional industries, we need solid accumulation, not only resource investment, but also time cost, and time cost is obviously our disadvantage in East Africa. As a new As an emerging country, we have developed hundreds of years later than European and American countries, so in many traditional industrial fields, it is impossible for us to surpass those old powers in just a few decades. "
"However, with the spring effect of East Africa's emerging industries during the Second Five-Year Plan, we seem to have found a way to break the monopoly of traditional industrial markets in Europe and the United States, which is clearly reflected in the railway and shipbuilding industries. "
The railway and shipbuilding industries were already quite eye-catching during the First Industrial Revolution, so with the development of East Africa's own railway and shipbuilding industries, it is easier to see the transformation of the industry under the overall situation of East Africa's industrial upgrading.
At least the transformation of the railway industry has been mentioned, and the shipbuilding industry is actually a similar situation, but in the field of shipbuilding, East Africa is not particularly prominent.
In the first and middle of the last century, with the birth of ironclad ships, the shipbuilding industry also underwent a huge change, and the shipbuilding industry began to transform from the sailing age to the steam age and the steel age.
Of course, the transformation of the shipbuilding industry was first seen in Europe and the United States, but East Africa has also caught up with the trend. Under this change, if the traditional shipbuilding powerhouses do not actively transform, they may be replaced. However, most of the traditional powers in the sailing era have achieved transformation.
Even so, the transformation of the shipbuilding industry has given many countries the opportunity to catch up again, including East Africa, Germany and Japan.
Among them, Germany performed the best. With its strong industrial base advantages, it quickly became the world's emerging shipbuilding center and promoted the rapid development of its navy.
East Africa and Japan cannot achieve brilliant achievements like Germany due to their inherent deficiencies, but they are also relatively prominent among the countries in the world, especially East Africa, which has achieved qualitative changes in the shipbuilding industry with its national size.