African Entrepreneurship Record

As a new city, Rhein City is far superior to First Town City in many areas such as infrastructure construction, functional design, and industrial structure.

With the relocation work of East Africa’s capital progressing, a central city cluster with Rhein City as the core will be formed around Rhein City. Currently, there are many towns like New Frankfurt City, Kabwe, Lusaka, and the Copperbelt around Rhein City.

Rhein City also has an important role to play, which is to fill the gap between East Africa’s three major future economic zones.

There’s no need to mention East Africa’s eastern and western coastal regions, while the southern Bohemia Province (Zimbabwe) is also East Africa’s largest heavy industrial area, and Rhein City is located between these three.

Although without Rhein City, the local economic foundation isn’t bad, there’s still some gap compared to the aforementioned three.

Thus, the existence of Rhein City fills the crucial core of East African development, serving as the center connecting two oceans and north-south regions.

The northern region has relatively weak economic strength, but it’s vast in size, rich in oil resources, and mostly borders other countries and regions, which is significant for East Africa’s energy and national defense security, and should not be underestimated.

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Kampala City.

Kampala City is the capital of North Lake Province, invested in construction by the East African government in 1871. It has now become one of the famous highland water towns along the Great Lake, which means local agriculture is quite developed.

Meanwhile, Kampala is an important city along the northern railway line. Relying on the Great Lake, it can directly achieve mutual exchange of goods and personnel with Kisumu City and other towns along the Great Lake shore, being the fourth-largest city on the northern railway.

Of course, compared to southern cities, its industry is much less developed, and within the Great Lake Region, industries are mostly concentrated in Kisumu City and Mwanza City.

Due to their geographical advantages, they were more easily receptive to industrial and technological transfer from the eastern regions in the early years.

Of course, as the fourth-largest city in the Great Lake Region, Kampala is accelerating development, narrowing the industrial gap with other cities.

Kampala’s industrial development opportunities come from two aspects: economic development within the region and related areas providing Kampala with a market and raw materials, and the central region transferring backward industries to the northern region.

Although it’s said that these industries are backward in the central region, on a national level, the industries transferred here are still relatively advanced.

At least, there is no significant difference compared to Kisumu, Mwanza, and Bujumbura, because the industrial development started late in East Africa. Even the eliminated backward industries in central regions are at most only twenty or thirty years old.

And the industrial facilities in cities like Kisumu, Mwanza are roughly at this level as well. After all, East Africa invested relatively early in their industries, and a new round of technological and industrial upgrades cannot immediately carry on, making Kampala’s industrial equipment essentially the same as these cities.

After all, this round of technological and industrial upgrades mainly takes place in originally more developed industrial, research, or coastal areas, while inland cities like Kisumu and Mwanza temporarily do not have this treatment.

Of course, East Africa’s designation for the Great Lake Region is primarily as East Africa’s most significant agricultural production base, so it’s naturally not as focused on local industry compared to other regions in East Africa.

Thus, as the provincial capital of North Lake Province, agriculture and related industries still dominate Kampala’s industrial structure.

At this moment, Kampala City’s agriculture and forestry departments are engaging in relevant discussions about optimizing local agricultural construction.

In Kevins Town, a subordinate town of Northeast Kampala City, agricultural meteorological expert Morse has conducted over ten years of investigation and monitoring, giving a rather in-depth report on agricultural production safety issues to the officials of Kampala City government.

Morse: ”Under normal circumstances, an increase in forests and vegetation reduces the annual runoff of rivers. Of course, the impact of forests and other vegetation on climate is relatively complex. Under specific constraints, the opposite effect may occur. However, it is certain that ensuring forests and vegetation under suitable climate conditions is more beneficial than harmful for the climate overall.”

”Therefore, my suggestion is to ensure that the region maintains its forest and vegetation conditions in their original state to avoid problems. Simply put, it’s about maintaining the local ecological balance and modifying local agriculture while respecting natural laws.”

Kampala City’s Agriculture Bureau Director Helwein asked: ”Mr. Morse, does your meaning imply that our local agricultural construction is unfavorable?”

To Helwein, Morse’s words seemed like a critique of the harm East African agricultural development has done to the local ecology. After all, during the farmland and water conservancy development process, many forests and grasslands were indeed eliminated, replaced by vast stretches of farmland.

Morse waved his hand: ”I didn’t say that. What I mean is that currently, humanity is a weak existence compared to nature. Our agricultural development must be considered carefully, rather than claiming that local agriculture is unfavorable.”

Seeing the puzzled expressions of Helwein and other East African officials, Morse could only explain: ”I’ll be blunt then. My agricultural development injection can be summarized in the following points: one is to restore necessary forests or vegetation. As far as what’s necessary, this needs to be adapted to local conditions. For example, areas with relatively low precipitation aren’t suitable for large-scale land development. Two is to build more reservoirs or protect local water areas. Through my research in the locality for several years, the more reservoirs there are, the more beneficial it is for regional agricultural development. Of course, since we’re already on the Great Lake shore, there’s no need for exhaustive efforts; it’s enough to do well in relevant water conservancy facilities construction.”

”I mentioned these two points to ensure that local climate doesn’t change due to excessive agricultural development. If overdeveloping agriculture leads to soil erosion, lower precipitation, land desertification, et cetera, it would be a devastating blow to the agricultural ecosystem already built locally.”

”To put it more simply, it’s about developing local resources in moderation, enabling sustainable use rather than exhausting them.”

Under Ernst’s influence, East Africa has become the world’s densest region for scholars in environmental ecology. Their knowledge and theoretical level have also continually advanced along with East Africa’s national development and the passage of time.

”Moderation!” This was the keyword Helwein grasped.

Morse: ”That’s right, the key is moderation. This is most notably exemplified in Asian regions. Just take the Middle East’s Two Rivers area, for example. In ancient times, the Two Rivers area fostered mature civilizations like Ancient Babylon. As the population increased, excessive development by residents made the climate of the region increasingly arid, leading to forest degradation, deserts swallowing farmland, and many areas gradually becoming unsuitable for agricultural production.”

At this point, even though Helwein isn’t cultured much, he can mostly understand.

This is unavoidable, as Helwein has already passed the optimal learning age. He entered the East African government through military merit, so he’s extremely dependent on these professionals in regional governance.

This is also the current situation of East African countries. Although East Africa has established a relatively complete education system and cultivated a lot of basic talents, this system has only matured recently.

Previously, most East African government officials were of Helwein’s low educational level types, and it would take roughly ten to twenty years for higher-educated and knowledgeable individuals to replace them in the East African government.

East Africa’s current industrial and agricultural development model is still relatively rough, so people like Helwein are just about adequate. When East Africa’s industry and agriculture further develop, more professional personnel will be needed for management.