The successful completion of the first ten-year development plan and the doubling of national fiscal revenue were the basis for Li Mingyuan's decision to implement five years of free compulsory education.
Education is the foundation of a strong national development. On the basis of the first ten-year development plan, education is still the top priority in the second ten-year development plan.
Improve the orphan care and education system, and fully bring the orphans born due to the death or disappearance of their parents during the wave of East Asian immigrants going overseas to make a living within the scope of the national security system. The central government will fund the expenses and education expenses of all orphans during primary and secondary school.
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In the next ten years, the total tuition fees for intermediate schools and colleges and universities will be reduced by 30% and 25% respectively.
Gradually achieve the ultimate goal of universalization and free education.
In terms of agriculture, we adhere to the production method of focusing on family farm production, supplemented by medium-sized and large-scale farm and ranch production, and continue to promote the standard family model of seven members per household and 200 acres of cultivated land.
Integrate and monopolize South America's foreign grain trade channels. The state-owned grain export trading company under the jurisdiction of the government uniformly formulates grain, livestock purchase, and export prices, and formulates a grain protection system to avoid the phenomenon of cheap grain hurting farmers and expensive grain hurting the people.
In terms of population growth, the system of encouraging childbirth will never waver, and the worker employment system will be gradually improved to ease the pressure of industrial development on worker families. For some people with difficult family conditions, corresponding reduction and exemption policies will be provided to reduce their costs in education, housing, and child care.
Social expenditures on child care, etc.
In the field of heavy industry, continue to increase the construction of infrastructure such as railways, roads, bridges, canals, etc., and strive to achieve the goal of crude steel output exceeding 1.5 million tons by 1899, and the country's total steel output entering the top six in the world...
With the technical foundation laid by the first ten-year exhibition plan, Li Mingyuan seemed even more comfortable when formulating the second ten-year exhibition plan.
"Population is the foundation of a country. Without enough population, even the most advanced machinery and equipment cannot be operated. Therefore, the introduction of immigrants and the encouragement of childbirth will be implemented as national policies forever. As for the overpopulation and intensification of social conflicts that some officials are worried about,
question, it’s completely unnecessary.”
After the issue of the second ten-year exhibition planning was discussed for the first time at the meeting, Li Mingyuan opened his mouth to explain several issues that officials were worried about.
"There cannot be two reasons. First, as the country industrializes, the number of workers entering the city to work is increasing rapidly. As a large number of farmers and educated young people enter the city and transform into an urban population, workers' working hours increase and their lives change.
As the pace accelerates, the cost of raising children will also be higher than that of rural families. Under various factors, this will lead to a decrease in the willingness of urban workers' families to have children and a decrease in the number of urban newborns.
This phenomenon not only exists in France, Germany and other European countries, but also in the local area. According to the newborn population survey data in the past three years, in urban households such as Chang'an and Songjiang, each working-age couple has an average of 4.9 babies, which is higher than that in rural areas.
The average number of babies born to working-age couples is 5.1, which is 0.2 percentage points lower.
As the country's industrialization process accelerates, the national willingness to have children may further decrease. Therefore, it is difficult for the local population to maintain the current high growth model.
The second point is that even if the population continues to grow at a high rate, causing the population in the local area to exceed the optimal range, the central government can also take appropriate countermeasures at this time and transfer part of the excess population to overseas colonies, thereby solving the overpopulation in a gentle way.
The problem."
“The territory of our country is vast and sparsely populated, and the British Empire is restraining us from the outside. It opposes the territorial expansion of the country to Brazil and Chile. There is the United States in the Americas, and the Republic of Brazil is hostile. It is always looking for opportunities to dismember the empire.
Under this unfavorable situation both internally and externally, it is premature to discuss the problem of excessive population growth in the future."
From the perspective of the country's highest-level official, Liu Pu's views are more consistent with Li Mingyuan's.
"In the future, if the local population is overpopulated, they can expand their territory to the north or disperse the population to overseas colonies. If the Congo colony cannot accommodate more people, with its population advantage, the imperial army can also use its guns to fight in Southeast Asia and Africa.
Get enough living space for the local Chinese!”……
Government officials and military generals have expressed their opinions one after another. Although their standpoints are different, their views are very consistent.
"Last year, some officials had some different ideas because of the conflict between old and new immigrants. In the second half of the year, the Americans fanned the flames and exaggerated the theory of Han population threat in South America on the grounds that the local population was growing too fast, and encouraged Brazil to
, Chile and other countries joined forces to curb local development. Under such circumstances, some officials listened to the so-called Malthusian theory in the West, and then changed their minds and followed the steps of the Americans to provoke conflicts between old and new immigrants. It is really stupid!"
Li Mingyuan's tone became colder and he reiterated again: "Malthusian theory is just a fallacy full of loopholes and endless harm.
The Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Rites must do a good job in external and internal publicity, refute the duplicitous slanderous propaganda of Americans, expose the sinister intentions of the United States and some Western countries to the local people, prohibit the spread of Malthusian ideas in the local area, and continue to increase the introduction of immigrants.
Strengthen and encourage the implementation of fertility policies!”
The Han State, which is big and attracts the wind, actually controls an area of 3.6 million square kilometers and has a population of more than 1.7 million. In North and South America, it has become the second country in the Americas in terms of comprehensive national strength, second only to the United States.
The annual net population growth is more than 1 million, excluding the number of overseas immigrants, and based on the birth rate of an average of 5.02 babies for a working-age couple, the local natural population can double in less than sixteen years.
Even compared with the Malthusian theory of doubling the population in twenty-five years, the population growth rate of Han China is very rare among countries in the world.
Han, whose industry, military, and population ranks among the largest in South America, will attract the attention of the United States and some countries that are hostile to the mainland even if it develops in a low-key manner.
Regarding the struggle for dominance in South America and even the entire American region, when the Americans were competing head-on with Britain, they did not forget to use various means to curb the development of the Han Dynasty.
First, they used it to plunder Chinese property and cut off the expansion of Chinese power in the United States. Then, they used the explosive growth of population as an excuse to exaggerate the threat of the Han Dynasty.
The conflicts and disputes between the United States, the United Kingdom and the mainland have attracted the attention of many European countries.
There are many radicals in Tsarist Russia, Italy, and France who applaud the actions of the Americans. However, at the national level, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Italy are either indifferent, or like Russia, they express their opinions, but their strength
Insufficient and incapable of exerting influence in South America.
It is impossible for officials who can sneak into national leadership positions to do things that are not beneficial to the country because of American propaganda. After all, everyone knows that the United States ranks first when it comes to absorbing immigrants and increasing population.
In addition to the United States, South American countries, Canada, Mexico and other countries are also absorbing immigrants. However, due to factors such as the small number of Chinese in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the poor surrounding international environment, Han continued to adhere to the policy of introducing immigrants, which led to population growth.
More conspicuous.
Enriching newly occupied areas with immigrants is something that all European countries are doing. As colonial powers, Britain and Russia are also the most active countries in evacuating native immigrants to newly occupied areas.
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were the key immigration destinations and colonies operated by the United Kingdom, while the vast Siberia and Central Asia became the first choice for Tsarist Russia to resettle the poor.
Countries as large as Britain and Russia with a population of tens of millions, and as small as the Netherlands and Portugal with a population of millions, are all sending people overseas and to their colonies. The difference is that the Americans use this as an excuse to attack the Han Dynasty.
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Overseas immigration is restricted by transportation capacity, immigration costs, etc., and the number of immigrants cannot grow without limit. Based on this understanding, Western countries are curious about the population growth of Han in South America, but considering following the Han government,
Most countries wisely chose to give up on the huge financial expenditures caused by the state's organization of immigration transportation, resettlement and other actions. However, a few countries with strong comprehensive strength, such as the United Kingdom and Germany, learned from the experiences of South America, Han, and the United States.
, adopted a more enlightened policy than in history,
Led by the national government and some private colonial institutions, the local lower class people are encouraged to migrate to overseas colonies.......