Chapter 503: Surpassing France in Four Years and Catching up with England in Eight Years (

Chapter 503: Four years to surpass France, eight years to catch up with England (monthly ticket requested!)

The construction of medical care is similar to education. The government vigorously builds large and medium-sized regular hospitals to ensure that every large city has one or more hospitals to meet the medical needs of Australasians, especially those with more serious illnesses.

At the same time, it also encourages the private sector to open various small clinics, which is similar to technical schools in education and can also alleviate some of the medical pressure.

After all, there is no need to go to the hospital for some milder symptoms. Some small and medium-sized clinics can completely solve these problems.

At the same time, the medical environment of small and medium-sized clinics must be controlled to ensure that these small and medium-sized clinics do have the ability and equipment to treat patients.

Although Australasia encourages the private sector to establish more small clinics, this does not mean that individuals can open clinics.

Anyone who needs to open a clinic must pass some medical qualification examinations organized by the Australasia government. Only those who obtain medical qualification certificates can open a clinic.

Although a small medical qualification certificate may force some non-Western medical practitioners to lose their qualifications to become doctors, or make it more difficult for them to open clinics.

But for the whole country, a stricter medical qualification examination can ensure that those who open clinics have sufficient experience and qualifications. After all, medical care is no small matter, and they must be fundamentally responsible for the health of the people of Australasia.

At present, there are about 27 large hospitals established by the Australasian government, with an average of about two large hospitals in each state.

States with larger populations, such as New South Wales and Victoria, even have more than three large hospitals.

If we say that the city with the most hospitals in Australasia is Sydney, the current capital.

Sydney has two large public hospitals and a royal private hospital, and it is expected to build a joint hospital, which is a construction investment plan of a joint consortium among nobles.

In this way, Sydney will have four large hospitals. Although only three of them are open to the public, the number is also the highest in the whole of Australasia.

In addition to these large hospitals, Australasia also has hundreds of small and medium-sized hospitals. The composition of these small and medium-sized hospitals is relatively complex, some are built by the government, and some are from private joint ventures.

However, the Australian government is still very strict in reviewing these small hospitals, in order to improve the medical environment of these hospitals and to avoid overcharging patients as much as possible.

The most important part of the four-year plan proposed by Prime Minister Kent is actually reflected in the above immigration, industry, military, science and technology, and education.

In addition, the four-year plan also made expectations for the economy. In 1918, Australia's fiscal revenue was 172.9 million Australian dollars, an increase of only 4% over the previous year.

According to Prime Minister Kent's expectations for the four-year plan, the growth rate of government fiscal revenue in the four-year plan is expected to remain above 5%, which also means that the annual fiscal revenue of the Australian government will exceed 200 million Australian dollars in four years.

Among the various infrastructure projects driven by the government, Australia's economic growth is a foregone conclusion.

In 1918, the GDP of Australasia was approximately US$2.441 billion, equivalent to 488.2 million pounds and 976.4 million Australian dollars.

Although this economic level has made significant progress compared to before the war, it is still far behind those larger countries and there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Due to the impact of war and influenza, Australasia's economic growth was not fast before, generally maintaining a rate of 7% to 8%.

After entering peacetime, Prime Minister Kent's expectation for the Australasia economy is to maintain an annual growth rate of about 9%, which also means that after the end of the four-year plan, Australasia's GDP is expected to reach US$3.445 billion, ranking seventh in the world before the war, but already in the top five in the world after the war.

Overall, if this four-year plan can be implemented smoothly, Australasia will become the world's top five in terms of industry, economy, and military scale in four years, and will be ranked fifth among the powers, and will have the strength to fight with other countries except Britain and France.

Of course, it does not mean that it has no strength to fight compared with Britain and France. However, Britain and France can recover with a large number of colonies. Facing these two countries, Australasia has no hope of defeating them for the time being, and there is no need to compete with them.

The main interests of the French are in Africa and Europe, which are also blank areas of interest for Australasia.

Although the British have interests in all oceans, compared with Australasia, France and the United States are currently Britain's competitors, and Britain also needs Australasia to share the pressure of the United States.

In addition to several major items in the four-year plan, there are some minor items that are not mentioned, such as the construction of roads and railways.

For a country, the mileage of roads and railways is very important, which can not only promote economic exchanges, but also improve the control of various regions.

Because the construction plan of railways and highways has been set before, it is not mentioned in this four-year plan, but the original railway and highway construction plan should still be vigorously carried out.

In addition to these, in the next step of the country's development, the construction of large reservoirs and hydropower stations is also very important, and is not inferior to the development of industry.

Australasian environment is somewhat special. It is not short of energy, but it is very short of water resources.

Especially after controlling the oil in the Persian Gulf region, the price of fuel and petroleum products in Australasia has been greatly reduced, and people can also squander gasoline and diesel with confidence. Anyway, there is no environmental protection law to restrict fuel vehicles.

But Australasia's water resources are always a problem, and it will gradually become apparent with the growth of population.

In order to meet the water demand after the population explosion in the future, it is necessary to further build more water storage reservoirs and build certain hydropower stations based on these reservoirs.

First, the new hydropower station can generate more relatively clean energy, which is still beneficial to environmental protection.

Second, the new water storage reservoir can also guarantee Australasia's water demand. Before the North-South Water Transfer Project from New Guinea was started and completed, Australasia's water demand depended on these reservoirs.

Even the construction of heavy industry, civil industry and various road construction in the Four-Year Plan require a lot of water resources. Irrigation of agriculture and animal husbandry and civil water resources are also very important. It is impossible without sufficient water reserves.

In particular, water reservoirs prepared for large cities must be built, and they must be built more firmly and durable.

Looking at the world, Australasia's development potential is absolutely among the best. Although the French regained Alsace and Lorraine, the French mainland, especially more than a dozen provinces in the northeast, were occupied by the Germans as soon as the war started, and suffered great damage during the years-long war.

Most of these occupied areas are relatively important mining areas, steel and textile centers, and their scale has a very important position in the entire French industry.

After the destruction of this region, although the French took back many factory equipment from Germany, France's industrial output in 1918 was less than 70% of that before the war, that is, in 1914. In particular, steel production was greatly damaged. Steel production dropped from a peak of 4.69 million tons in 1913 to 1.8 million tons in 1918. This figure is only half of the current annual steel production in Australasia, which is enough to show how serious the damage to French industry caused by the war.

If it were not for the fact that the scale of other French industries was still there, judging from the huge losses suffered by France in the steel industry, France's industry would not even be as good as Australasia.

If Australasia is about to enter a long period of development, then what the French need is a long period of recovery.

Unlike the French, the British industry was hardly affected, and even grew significantly during the war.

In 1914, the British steel production was 7.96 million tons, and in 1918 it had increased to 9.69 million tons, which was still a very rapid growth.

Especially after defeating the Germans, the British industry has regained its second place in the world, second only to the record of 37 million tons of annual steel production created by the Americans in 1918.

Of course, the American steel production seems huge, but in fact, the American industrial problems are also quite serious.

From the outbreak of the war to the present, the American steel production has not increased much. Especially in the three years from 1916 to 1918, the annual steel production of the United States has remained at around 35 million tons, without much growth.

Especially after suffering from the impact of influenza, whether the United States can continue to maintain an annual steel production of 35 million tons this year is a question worth pondering.

It can also be seen from this data that the situation of several victorious countries is not very good. The French suffered a lot of losses in the war, and their goal in the next ten years is just to catch up with France's pre-war economic and industrial level.

It is worth mentioning that it seems that it was not until 1929 that France's economy surpassed France in 1913, and even caused the French to celebrate at that time.

But this also means that in the 16 years from 1913 to 1929, the French did not make any economic progress, which is terrible for a country.

16 years of stagnation also doomed the French colonial empire to collapse. Unless the French can grow their economy rapidly in the next period of time, it is obvious that another war that the French do not want to see will soon follow.

It is actually the French capitalists who hinder the recovery of the French economy and industry.

Here we have to mention Germany. As a former industrial power, the Germans' industrial products have always been famous for their excellent quality and affordable prices.

Although the war caused the Germans to lose a lot of heavy industry and military industry, some small and medium-sized civilian industries have been retained. After all, the British do not want to see the French fully absorb German industry.

It is worth mentioning that the industrial products made by these German companies are fully accepted by France and Britain at very good prices.

This also led to the French capitalists' unwillingness to quickly restore France's industry. After all, the market has been occupied by a large number of cheap German industrial products. Isn't this more cost-effective than expensive French industrial products?

As for the development of France's domestic industry, this is not within the scope of consideration of those capitalists. After all, capitalists have no national boundaries. They have no sense of recognition for the country, only for interests.

This is because Australasia is keeping a low profile, and it also takes care of the face of the French. Otherwise, the Australasia government can really shout out the slogan of surpassing France in four years and catching up with England in eight years!

In fact, this is not an exaggeration. According to the intelligence of the Royal Security Intelligence Agency in the UK, the industrial situation of the British this year is far worse than that of last year. Let alone positive growth, it is a problem whether it can maintain last year's scale.

If the perspective is expanded to the whole world, a more obvious problem can be seen, that is, the industry of the whole world is almost growing slowly, which is not only due to the impact of influenza, but also because of the pain period of various countries after the war.

Because of the lack of sufficient labor, it is bound to have a certain impact on the economy and industry.

And this period of time is also a good opportunity for Australasia to surpass. It is even expected that after the completion of the first four-year plan, Australasia's industrial level will be raised to the fourth in the world after the United States, Britain and Germany.

There is actually a problem here, that is, where are the Russians whose original industrial scale is still good?

Although Arthur wants to put Russia in the ranks of industrial powers and economic powers, judging from the various intelligence reported by intelligence personnel, Russia's environment is already very bad.

This is not just Tsarist Russia or Soviet Russia, this bad situation refers to the whole of Russia.

Before the war, Russia actually had a certain level of industry. Although not high, the steel production in 1913 was able to maintain at around 4.23 million tons, which was worthy of its status as the fourth great power.

But since the beginning of the war, Russia's industry has suffered a lot of impact. First, the Germans occupied a large area of ​​industrial areas, followed by revolution and civil war, and the flu that killed and injured millions of people.

Russia's industrial level suffered a huge blow, from an annual output of 4.23 million tons of steel in 1913 before the war to an annual output of 400,000 tons of steel last year.

Although this figure is only an estimate by intelligence personnel, it may differ from the actual situation.

But the error will definitely not be too large, which also means that Russia's industry has experienced a devastating blow.

To put it nicely, Russia can still maintain the scale of a great power with its own population.

But if it is said in a bad way, Russia has nothing compared to other great powers except its current huge population, and even the highest political power in the country has not been determined.

However, this is also good news for Australasia. It is precisely because of the excessive darkness of Russia that many Russian immigrants have given up their homesickness and confidence in their hometown and instead supported the Australasia government.

Faced with the chaotic environment in Russia, the Russian people began to believe and agree that the political environment in Australasia is the best. After all, it is such a political environment that has allowed Australasia to grow into a medium-sized power in less than 20 years.

The growing strength of Australasia and the growing weakness of Russia have made these Russian immigrants very smart to know which side to choose.

Even before the Australasia government has influenced these immigrants, they have begun to claim that they are Australasia, as if admitting that they are Russians would make them lose face.

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