"With these preferential policies, agricultural cooperatives should be accepted by farmers in the Greater China Federation soon?" Chang Ruiqing asked everyone in the conference room with a smile, and everyone nodded. As for the current financial resources of the federal government, these preferential policies given by Chang Ruiqing are already very in place.

Chang Ruiqing turned his attention to Mao Zd and Zhou Elai again, and he smiled and said, "President, elai, the cabinet will fully promote the matter of cooperatives, but even if cooperatives are implemented, the trend of land concentration and urbanization is still inevitable. In fact, agricultural cooperatives themselves must be based on land concentration. Do you think so?"

"The Prime Minister is right," Mao zd smiled faintly. He understood what Chang Ruiqing meant. "I think the second land reform plan proposed by the Prime Minister is also feasible in principle. e, what do you think?"

"Yes, judging from the development trend of American agriculture, traditional small-scale farmers' production is indeed uncompetitive. Once capitalist farms appear in Central Asia and Siberia, the small-scale farmers' economy in the eastern region will soon fall apart. This is an inevitable result of the development of social productivity and is not something we should resist." Zhou Elai tightened his eyebrows: "The agricultural cooperatives we are promoting now are actually a model of agricultural industrialization, but it is hard to say whether they can compete with American-style capitalist farms in the future, let alone the billions of small-scale farmers in the eastern region."

Speaking of this, Zhou Elai couldn't help but sigh, as if he was quite regretful of the small-scale agricultural production that was about to collapse. Chen Duxiu also sighed: "In the process of its development and growth, advanced productivity will surely destroy backward productivity. This is a matter of no way. In the past 20 years, with the industrialization process of our country, the original handicraft production has also shrunk on a large scale. It has been replaced by more advanced large-scale industries, and such a situation will inevitably occur in agricultural production. What we can do is to make this process not impact the stability of society as much as possible."

"No, there will be no impact." Chang Ruiqing smiled and waved his hand: "While large-scale agricultural production has achieved a small peasant economy, we should also make every effort to promote urbanization. In fact, the real highlight of my second land reform is not to promote land concentration, but to attract farmers to the city."

Speaking of this, Chang Ruiqing looked a little proud. He was a "historical person" and knew the various difficulties encountered in the urbanization of China in another time and space. Until the second decade of the 21st century, he still had not found a path to urbanization that suits China's national conditions. In this time and space, in just 1936, he, the Chinese Prime Minister, had already found a way to urbanize.

"The urbanization method is to focus on developing megacities. It helps rather than preventing farmers from entering megacities to find employment. It also requires people, including farmers and workers, to settle homes in megacities, and farmers settle homes in cities, and the matter of farmers settle homes in cities will greatly boost the development of my country's real estate industry."

When everyone heard the word "real estate industry", they were stunned at the same time. At the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held now, everyone here, except Chang Ruiqing, who knows how big the real estate business can be, and they dare not imagine the land finance in the future...

Everyone didn't understand it very much. Chang Ruiqing then began to describe the spring of China's real estate. "Comrades, since everyone believes that it is inevitable that large agriculture will replace small agriculture, then you should also know that large agriculture requires far less labor than small agriculture. If the eastern region eventually develops into agricultural cooperatives and the northwest region develops into American-style farms, how many farmers are needed in the country? I'm afraid 150 million is enough, right? How many farmers do we have now? Nearly 500 million! This means that in the next 20 years or even 15 years, at least 350 million people will enter the city. Well, this number is definitely more than that, because our population is still increasing at a faster rate. It may reach 1.3 billion in 20 years!"

Speaking of the number 1.3 billion, Chang Ruiqing frowned slightly, but the other middle-aged and senior executives present were smiling. It seemed that no one thought that 1.3 billion or even more of the population would become a problem. After all, the Greater China Federation is truly a big country.

But Chang Ruiqing, who has experience in later generations, knew that population growth is certainly an important driving force for economic development, but excessive population will also increase the pressure on resources and land. Although the land and resources of the Greater China Federation in this time and space seem to be the world's number one, but if the 680 million population is averaged, it is far from comparable to the people of the United States, Germany and Britain. Moreover, since China's urbanization rate is low now, the population birth rate is much higher than that of the United States, Britain and Germany and other countries. If the urbanization rate cannot be increased as soon as possible, it is possible that China's peak population exceeds 2 billion in the future!

Chang Ruiqing said aloud and continued: "If the total population of our country reaches 1.3 billion in 20 years and the rural population remains at 150 million, our urban population will reach 1.15 billion. And 60% to 70% of them will live in urban agglomerations with the eight metropolis as the core."

"What? 70% of 1.15 billion is 805 million people! So many people live in 8 metropolises? That is to say, each metropolis has 100 million residents!?" Zhou Elai calculated with his fingers and raised his objection first. "Prime Minister, looking at the East and West countries, when did there have been cities with more than 10 million residents? Isn't it an international joke to make a city of 100 million residents?"

Chang Ruiqing smiled and said, "I don't agree with Xiang Yu's words. How many people in our eight metropolis are not about the size of the cities in the East and West countries, but about the size of the eight metropolis. At present, the sum of available land areas in the eight metropolis is about 35,000 square kilometers. This number does not include waters and mountains, which means that they can be built into urban areas."

"Then you can't accommodate 800 million people!" Mao zd also echoed: "Even if all 35,000 square kilometers are built into urban areas, how many people can be placed per square kilometer? It won't exceed 10,000, right? It's a big deal to put 400 million people."

Chang Ruiqing nodded, then said: "President, I mean that in the future, there will be 700 million to 800 million people living in urban agglomerations centered on the eight metropolises. At that time, between Shanghai and Nanjing, between Guangzhou and Hong Kong, between Beijing and Tianjin, around the three towns of Wuhan, and most of the Liaodong Peninsula will be filled with cities with concentrated populations. The total area of ​​these urban agglomerations will definitely be several times or even ten times that of the eight metropolises, and it is more than enough to accommodate 700 million to 800 million people. Of course, there is a process for population agglomeration, and it is impossible.

It will be completed overnight. Even if we use the second land reform to promote it, it will probably take 10 to 20 years to complete this process. During this period, a large number of industries related to urban infrastructure and real estate will flourish and generate hundreds of millions of employment opportunities. In the future, the original agricultural population that enters the eight major metropolis in the future will be active in urban housing with the help of the government's second land reform policy, and on the other hand, we will find work from related industries of housing and urban construction. This will be a virtuous cycle."

"The housing prices in the eight cities now seem to be not cheap, right? Farmers may be able to afford it?" Chen Duxiu shook his head and expressed his doubts. He was very clear about the financial resources of ordinary farmers. However, it is not easy to maintain food and clothing after working hard for a year. Even if you enter the city, you are empty-handed. How can you afford the high housing prices in the eight cities?

"Mr. Zhongfu, the housing prices in the eight cities are very cheap!" Chang Ruiqing shook his head helplessly. It is indeed tiring to discuss real estate with these GCD people who have no business knowledge. This house that Chen Duxiu said was not cheap must be the garden villa where he lived, and it is not the unit room needed by farmers and workers.

Then he sighed and began to describe in detail the beautiful prospects for the future development of China's real estate industry to everyone here - the prospects are of course bright. In the future, more than 1 billion people will enter urban life. If calculated based on a family of four, 250 million houses are needed. Of course, the actual demand will definitely exceed 250 million, and maybe 300 million units or even 400 million units - Greater China Federation will not impose any real estate purchase restrictions. The land of more than 30 million square kilometers is placed there, but it cannot satisfy the people's love for real estate? Moreover, local governments also need the real estate tax paid by real estate holders to carry out construction!

Therefore, Chang Ruiqing's real estate policy is actually to relax the purchase and construction, and there is no red line of arable land. Not to mention Central Asia, Siberia has so much land to farm. Just say that after concentrating the population in big cities, wouldn't rural housing be pushed down and farmed? Will the population occupy a larger housing area in big cities than in rural areas?

In the future, a large number of residential demands will be included in the construction of urban commerce, industry, office properties, urban infrastructure construction, and urban transportation. The construction demand and real estate demand brought by urbanization will not be less than 10 trillion yuan! The economic growth brought about by the great development of steel, building materials and construction industries driven by these demands is also an astronomical figure.

Therefore, the modernization of the Greater China Federation is actually urbanization. As long as a series of urban agglomerations centered on the eight metropolises are built, the Greater China Federation is a veritable developed country.
Chapter completed!