Vietnamese Economic Projects
1)Program Name: Reconstruction de Saïgon
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: It is intended that Saigon will be rebuilt as a model Buddhist city, with a street model incorporating a Buddhist chakra, important developments of monasteries and temples, and an aesthetic grandeur to represent the greatness of Vietnam. These plans forsee a Seat of the General Secretary will be established to house the executive, that a People's National Assembly building created, headquarters for the Party and for national Buddhist organizations created, and other buildings for the central administration constructed or reconstructed as they previously existed when the French used them. We will also need new hotels and other buildings for the reception of foreign dignitaries. Cultural infrastructure will also be important, such as theaters, concert halls, libraries art galleries, museums, monuments, but much of this will have to wait. They will however, be incorporated into plans. The restoration of industrial infrastructure will take greater priority, fitting into economic reforms to socialize and nationalize the economy, although to a lesser extent than at Hanoi since industrial infrastructure is much more lacking. It is intended that a large radio tower will be constructed to provide for national and international communications.
Public works are the most important part which will proceed first, focusing on providing provisions of water, roads, public transport (with hopes for the installation of tram lines), and some degree of electricity infrastructure. The port infrastructure here will be improved to enable exports to be increased. Sanitation infrastructure will be improved alongside this. Medical and educational infrastructure will follow immediately thereafter, including the reconstruction or rebuilding of collèges and lycées which were destroyed, and the additional of new technical colleges and schools. Security infrastructure is not a building, but the re-establishment of effective security forces is a necessary step. The establishment of effective ward administration and popular mobilization, marching in tandem with efforts at the village level in the countryside, is vital for development and for meeting the needs of welfare and social cohesion. Of course this will march in lockstep with Buddhist authorities. Assistance will be tendered to refugees returning to the city.
There are also defensive parts of the project. It is envisioned that there will be substantial allotments of air raid shelters and civil defense infrastructure. Plans will be drawn up for the evacuation of the city in war time. Coastal forts will be constructed to bar the waterways, as well as defensive anti-aircraft batteries and infrastructure.
Through these measures, the first city of Vietnam will be restored to its appropriate level to serve as a fitting capital for the nation, and to enable economic and political development to proceed apace.
2)Program Name: Reconstruction de Hanoï
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Hanoi was not destroyed directly by the French, but it too was almost leveled during the war, under the constant pounding of artillery and vicious urban fighting. However, unlike Saigon enough of Hanoi remains intact that we do not feel that it is necessary to entirely remake the street plan of the city. Therefor the project focuses above all else upon reconstructing the city, although it also means that we can replace infirm and poor housing with better quality modern material which is less resistant to fires and provides better housing quality for the people. Furthermore some things will not be rebuilt, such as brothels and to a lesser extent French colonial housing, and churches will be replaced with Buddhist temples and monasteries. Cultural infrastructure will also be important, such as theaters, concert halls, libraries art galleries, museums, monuments, but much of this will have to wait. They will however, be incorporated into plans. The restoration of industrial infrastructure will take greater priority, fitting into economic reforms to socialize and nationalize the economy.
Public works are the most important part which will proceed first, focusing on providing provisions of water, roads, public transport (with hopes for the installation of tram lines), and some degree of electricity infrastructure.Reconstruction of bridges is important in Hanoi as it is built with many rivers in the region. Sanitation infrastructure will be improved alongside this. Medical and educational infrastructure will follow immediately thereafter, including the reconstruction or rebuilding of collèges and lycées which were destroyed, and the addition of new technical colleges or schools. Security infrastructure is not a building, but the re-establishment of effective security forces is a necessary step. The establishment of effective ward administration and popular mobilization, marching in tandem with efforts at the village level in the countryside, is vital for development and for meeting the needs of welfare and social cohesion. Of course this will march in lockstep with Buddhist authorities. Assistance will be tendered to refugees returning to the city.
There are also defensive parts of the project. It is envisioned that there will be substantial allotments of air raid shelters and civil defense infrastructure. Defensive anti-aircraft batteries will join the picture. Plans for evacuation of the city will be drawn up for war time. On the side of military discussions, it is also intended that Hanoi will boast an important monument to the battle and to the Indochina war in general, including our tomb of the unknown soldier. But details of this will be expressed later.
Hanoi's reconstruction is absolutely vital to gain access to the concentration of industry which it had possessed pre-war, and to serve as an administration center for northern Vietnamese industry. The second city of Vietnam will be restored in its grandeur.
3)Program Name: Expansion houillère
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: North Vietnam is home to very extensive reserves of coal, comparable in size to those of Japan or Czechoslovakia. Some effort has already been made by French imperialist capitalism to extract them,leading to the employment of scores of thousands of workers who constitute a very important part of the industrial labor force, but this is not enough. If Vietnam is to be able to provide for industry, transport, and export potential for valuable foreign exchange currency, then it will be necessary to expand coal production. Coal reserves stand at at least 20 billion tons of high quality anthracite coal, and smaller reserves of perhaps 19 million tons of bituminous coal and lignite. Given that fuel wood sources are deployed these are of vital necessity for providing for the national economy. To improve our production of coal in the Hongay coal mines in the North, plans call for the deployment of Russian advisors who know about coal mining, the purchase of international coal mining machinery, the improvement of transport infrastructure in the north (both in regards to railroads to ship it out, and the actual ports), and simply the deployment of more labor. The objective is 2 million tons. South Vietnam's reserves of coal are significantly smaller, but the mine of Nong Son is nevertheless to be expanded itself with the objective of achieving heightened production levels of at least 150.000 tons per year.
Of course, a lack of effort on improving worker conditions is either Imperialist propaganda or a result of the desperate need to expand production and rebuild the nation.
4)Program Name: Mines de fer et d'autres minérals
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Northern Vietnam possesses substantial deposits of iron ore, at around 150 million metric tons. Although this is not a huge number by international standards, for South East Asia it is still quite large. If we are to one day develop an important heavy industrial sector, it is vital that we enable this iron ore to be put to productive usage. Our plan calls for expanding iron ore production to 100.000 tons. We will also seek to expand chromite, phosphate, and tin production as well, and apatite in particular among phosphates.
5)Program Name: Aménegement des terres
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Vietnam's land distribution has been dominated by wealthy capitalists, absentee landlords who hide away in the cities while the peasants toil in misery in the countryside. This society is entirely antithetical to that of the eight-fold path. Our project visualizes a redistribution of land to provide a more even, although not completely egalitarian, distribution of land, providing for small, medium, and large plots, depending upon the effectiveness of farmers to farm these lands and hence to encourage productivity. These farms will have the aim of 75% low-level collectivization as part of the initial stage (these are not yet high-level Soviet-style collective farms), which will enable the production of food surpluses for either export or increased internal consumption by a larger industrial laboring force. This distribution of farmers will also enable new farming methods to be deployed (we will also make particular efforts to expand the irrigation system) and a better and more rational usage of lands provided, by more rationally spreading farmers around the nations and encouraging land productivity in densely populated regions. Collective efforts will happen in cooperation between the state and monastery and temple authorities. This project must also take into account peasant wishes due to our support base being principally in the countryside. These projects will hopefully enable rice exports to take off again, with objectives of more than a million tons of rice to be exported per year - vital for economic growth.
6)Program Name: Formation technique
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Only a vanishingly small proportion of the Vietnamese population is skilled. As compared to the USSR, in population proportional terms, Vietnam has perhaps a hundredth as many skilled workers, and a fiftieth as many semiskilled workers. Engineering and advanced technology are both extremely lacking. Furthermore, tens of thousand of French administrative, managerial, and technical positions in municipalities, utilities, industries, and transportation services were operated by the French, who are now in the overwhelming majority leaving, often taking their trained staffs with them. We thus need to replace upwards of perhaps 30.000 to 40.000 trained technical personnel. In order to build Socialism with Buddhist characteristics, we must dramatically expand the educational level of our people. We envision the temporary deployment of technicians and advisers from the USSR to train our own workers. Our main project however, is establishment of technical schools, apprenticeship programs, development of training facilities, and enhancement of information infrastructure to enable a significant development of technical training within Vietnam.
7)Program Name: Colonisation des nouvelles terres
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: While North Vietnam has insufficient land available, in South Vietnam there is significant amounts of territory which currently is uncolonized and which can be settled to increase agricultural production, estimated at well in excess of 1 million hectares. The government's program calls for the relief of the excessive numbers of northern peasants who have insufficient land available (beyond the natural deleterious effects of the capitalist-feudal system upon them which has reduced them to paupers) by the movement of large numbers to the south to newly reclaimed and colonized land. This will also be of help for providing for a broader array of new crops to be grown, important for industrial developments. Cash crops such as sugarcane, cotton, jute, oilseeds, tobacco, tea, and coffee are all projects which the government envisions expanding production of. Our unique location in the subtropical zone shall enable us to export coffee, tea, and tropical fruits to the Soviet Union.
8)Program Name: Reseau ferroviaire
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project:500.000
Description of the undertaking: Vietnam's economy is divided into two distinct zones, with an agriculturally productive south, and an industrially productive north. It is necessary to have the two connected, if there is to be a productive and growing economy. Furthermore, there are obvious reasons of national defense, communication, and national unity which lie behind the creation of an established railroad network. The 100 kilometer Hanoi-Haiphong railroad will be vital to be repaired for coal exported, south Vietnamese railroads improved to bring in rice and passenger travel, the railroads to Chinese worked upon to ease commerce to the Soviet Union through passage through China and better support logistics in this region. In effect all current railroads will be returned to operational status. But the main project that we envision is connecting the North and South of Vietnam through linking together Hanoi and Saigon. Currently there are two major gaps on this line. The first, in the South between Da Nang and Nha Trang, the other between Vinh and Don Ha. Both will be connected. Staff work will be conducted for the need to construct railroads to new mining and industrial centers.
The locomotives, heavy rolling stock, rails, and vehicles for this will almost all have to be imported, preferably from the Soviet Union, and if not from another nation. The Soviet Union presumably will provide technical advisors for such a project. Such is life.
9)Program Name: Amélioration de la production du caoutchouc
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Vietnam had three major exports under the French: coal, rice, and rubber. Rubber is something which desperately needs to be increased again, as our ally the Soviet Union has no source for rubber itself, and it is something which can generate very large economic production for the nation. We aim to increase production to over at least 30.000 tons, which will go principally for export, through the expansion of lands, increased intensity, and scientific practices.
10)Program Name: Programme d'alphabétisation de masse
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: See here
11)Program Name: Industrie légère
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Although in the long run heavy industry will be the most important project for Vietnam, necessary for defense and for the movement beyond a backwards and marginalized economy, at the current time we must move to build up what industry we can as well. Thus the government's investment plans foresee investment into light industry first, to provide for the internal market and for exports. This will consist of textiles, glassware, plastics, rubber goods, tea factories (a necessary import for the USSR which currently has no fellow socialist state which produces tea), fish canneries, and pharmaceuticals being developed, and added to expansions of rice milling (over a score of new rice mills), sugar refining, beer and soft drink manufacture, and cigarette making. In addition we see the restoration of previously damaged and destroyed light industrial capacity. This project also visualizes aiming to enable us to produce our own rifles, and eventually other weapons such as machine guns, mortars, and grenades, which can be manufactured by light industry.
12)Program Name: Industrie lourde
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Heavy industry is needed to provide the capital goods for the economy which will enable us to be independent, strong, and capable of our necessary internal growth. The government's investment programs see both the restoration of whatever heavy industry capacity is available - very little - but more importantly the construction of new capacity. This will include new electrical power, machine building (with the goal to produce a plant capable of building light metalcutting machine tools, mechanical irrigation pumps, reaping and sowing machines, threshing machines, concrete mixers, small size electical motors, and conveyors), cement, food processing, chemicals (aiming to enable production of chemical fertilizers, insecticides, and industrial chemicals), shipbuilding, rubber, and textile industries. Concrete production is to be expanded as well, although thankfully North Vietnam already has very significant concrete production levels and with the development of an improved transport infrastructure this should be available to the entire nation. In fact concrete production levels are enough that their export to China may be considered. Experimental steel works are also to be set up and staff work commenced for the construction of larger steel works in the long run. Staff work will also be undertaken towards the construction of railroad tracks and trains in the long run.
13)Program Name: L'électrification, voilà le communisme !
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: To provide for modern industry it is absolutely vital to have electricity. We foresee the creation of a number of dams, all of small to moderate size, to provide for increased electrical power, as well as enhancements of thermal electrical generating capacity. As a current objective we plan for at least 100 million kilowatt hours per year of production to be available. Only with electrification can true socialism be achieved.
14.Program Name: Soigner la nation
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 200.000
Vietnam suffers from certain crippling problems in regards to healthcare, mortality, and health. There is an astoundingly small number of physicians, only around 2 per 100,000 people, lower than even surrounding colonial regimes like the Philippines, much less developed nations. It will take much in the way of resources to attempt to counter this, and a full medical nation to reach that of the "civilized" countries is prohibitively expensive. However, we will deploy medical assistants with sufficient training to teach basic healthcare and solve basic problems around the nation, to function as rural doctors and to help educate the people in modern medicine. Clinics will established, with a particular focus on pre-natal and natal care to reduce the infant mortality rate. Work will be put on the distribution of mosquito nets and the eradication of stagnant water sources. Homes will be rendered less unsanity and more modern and healthy, as older structures with insufficient light and air are converted to new buildings which are more salubrious. New schools will be founded for doctors and nurses, and advisers from the Soviet Union brought in. Bacteriological institutes will be established, and new hospitals created.
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: It is intended that Saigon will be rebuilt as a model Buddhist city, with a street model incorporating a Buddhist chakra, important developments of monasteries and temples, and an aesthetic grandeur to represent the greatness of Vietnam. These plans forsee a Seat of the General Secretary will be established to house the executive, that a People's National Assembly building created, headquarters for the Party and for national Buddhist organizations created, and other buildings for the central administration constructed or reconstructed as they previously existed when the French used them. We will also need new hotels and other buildings for the reception of foreign dignitaries. Cultural infrastructure will also be important, such as theaters, concert halls, libraries art galleries, museums, monuments, but much of this will have to wait. They will however, be incorporated into plans. The restoration of industrial infrastructure will take greater priority, fitting into economic reforms to socialize and nationalize the economy, although to a lesser extent than at Hanoi since industrial infrastructure is much more lacking. It is intended that a large radio tower will be constructed to provide for national and international communications.
Public works are the most important part which will proceed first, focusing on providing provisions of water, roads, public transport (with hopes for the installation of tram lines), and some degree of electricity infrastructure. The port infrastructure here will be improved to enable exports to be increased. Sanitation infrastructure will be improved alongside this. Medical and educational infrastructure will follow immediately thereafter, including the reconstruction or rebuilding of collèges and lycées which were destroyed, and the additional of new technical colleges and schools. Security infrastructure is not a building, but the re-establishment of effective security forces is a necessary step. The establishment of effective ward administration and popular mobilization, marching in tandem with efforts at the village level in the countryside, is vital for development and for meeting the needs of welfare and social cohesion. Of course this will march in lockstep with Buddhist authorities. Assistance will be tendered to refugees returning to the city.
There are also defensive parts of the project. It is envisioned that there will be substantial allotments of air raid shelters and civil defense infrastructure. Plans will be drawn up for the evacuation of the city in war time. Coastal forts will be constructed to bar the waterways, as well as defensive anti-aircraft batteries and infrastructure.
Through these measures, the first city of Vietnam will be restored to its appropriate level to serve as a fitting capital for the nation, and to enable economic and political development to proceed apace.
2)Program Name: Reconstruction de Hanoï
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Hanoi was not destroyed directly by the French, but it too was almost leveled during the war, under the constant pounding of artillery and vicious urban fighting. However, unlike Saigon enough of Hanoi remains intact that we do not feel that it is necessary to entirely remake the street plan of the city. Therefor the project focuses above all else upon reconstructing the city, although it also means that we can replace infirm and poor housing with better quality modern material which is less resistant to fires and provides better housing quality for the people. Furthermore some things will not be rebuilt, such as brothels and to a lesser extent French colonial housing, and churches will be replaced with Buddhist temples and monasteries. Cultural infrastructure will also be important, such as theaters, concert halls, libraries art galleries, museums, monuments, but much of this will have to wait. They will however, be incorporated into plans. The restoration of industrial infrastructure will take greater priority, fitting into economic reforms to socialize and nationalize the economy.
Public works are the most important part which will proceed first, focusing on providing provisions of water, roads, public transport (with hopes for the installation of tram lines), and some degree of electricity infrastructure.Reconstruction of bridges is important in Hanoi as it is built with many rivers in the region. Sanitation infrastructure will be improved alongside this. Medical and educational infrastructure will follow immediately thereafter, including the reconstruction or rebuilding of collèges and lycées which were destroyed, and the addition of new technical colleges or schools. Security infrastructure is not a building, but the re-establishment of effective security forces is a necessary step. The establishment of effective ward administration and popular mobilization, marching in tandem with efforts at the village level in the countryside, is vital for development and for meeting the needs of welfare and social cohesion. Of course this will march in lockstep with Buddhist authorities. Assistance will be tendered to refugees returning to the city.
There are also defensive parts of the project. It is envisioned that there will be substantial allotments of air raid shelters and civil defense infrastructure. Defensive anti-aircraft batteries will join the picture. Plans for evacuation of the city will be drawn up for war time. On the side of military discussions, it is also intended that Hanoi will boast an important monument to the battle and to the Indochina war in general, including our tomb of the unknown soldier. But details of this will be expressed later.
Hanoi's reconstruction is absolutely vital to gain access to the concentration of industry which it had possessed pre-war, and to serve as an administration center for northern Vietnamese industry. The second city of Vietnam will be restored in its grandeur.
3)Program Name: Expansion houillère
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: North Vietnam is home to very extensive reserves of coal, comparable in size to those of Japan or Czechoslovakia. Some effort has already been made by French imperialist capitalism to extract them,leading to the employment of scores of thousands of workers who constitute a very important part of the industrial labor force, but this is not enough. If Vietnam is to be able to provide for industry, transport, and export potential for valuable foreign exchange currency, then it will be necessary to expand coal production. Coal reserves stand at at least 20 billion tons of high quality anthracite coal, and smaller reserves of perhaps 19 million tons of bituminous coal and lignite. Given that fuel wood sources are deployed these are of vital necessity for providing for the national economy. To improve our production of coal in the Hongay coal mines in the North, plans call for the deployment of Russian advisors who know about coal mining, the purchase of international coal mining machinery, the improvement of transport infrastructure in the north (both in regards to railroads to ship it out, and the actual ports), and simply the deployment of more labor. The objective is 2 million tons. South Vietnam's reserves of coal are significantly smaller, but the mine of Nong Son is nevertheless to be expanded itself with the objective of achieving heightened production levels of at least 150.000 tons per year.
Of course, a lack of effort on improving worker conditions is either Imperialist propaganda or a result of the desperate need to expand production and rebuild the nation.
4)Program Name: Mines de fer et d'autres minérals
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Northern Vietnam possesses substantial deposits of iron ore, at around 150 million metric tons. Although this is not a huge number by international standards, for South East Asia it is still quite large. If we are to one day develop an important heavy industrial sector, it is vital that we enable this iron ore to be put to productive usage. Our plan calls for expanding iron ore production to 100.000 tons. We will also seek to expand chromite, phosphate, and tin production as well, and apatite in particular among phosphates.
5)Program Name: Aménegement des terres
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Vietnam's land distribution has been dominated by wealthy capitalists, absentee landlords who hide away in the cities while the peasants toil in misery in the countryside. This society is entirely antithetical to that of the eight-fold path. Our project visualizes a redistribution of land to provide a more even, although not completely egalitarian, distribution of land, providing for small, medium, and large plots, depending upon the effectiveness of farmers to farm these lands and hence to encourage productivity. These farms will have the aim of 75% low-level collectivization as part of the initial stage (these are not yet high-level Soviet-style collective farms), which will enable the production of food surpluses for either export or increased internal consumption by a larger industrial laboring force. This distribution of farmers will also enable new farming methods to be deployed (we will also make particular efforts to expand the irrigation system) and a better and more rational usage of lands provided, by more rationally spreading farmers around the nations and encouraging land productivity in densely populated regions. Collective efforts will happen in cooperation between the state and monastery and temple authorities. This project must also take into account peasant wishes due to our support base being principally in the countryside. These projects will hopefully enable rice exports to take off again, with objectives of more than a million tons of rice to be exported per year - vital for economic growth.
6)Program Name: Formation technique
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Only a vanishingly small proportion of the Vietnamese population is skilled. As compared to the USSR, in population proportional terms, Vietnam has perhaps a hundredth as many skilled workers, and a fiftieth as many semiskilled workers. Engineering and advanced technology are both extremely lacking. Furthermore, tens of thousand of French administrative, managerial, and technical positions in municipalities, utilities, industries, and transportation services were operated by the French, who are now in the overwhelming majority leaving, often taking their trained staffs with them. We thus need to replace upwards of perhaps 30.000 to 40.000 trained technical personnel. In order to build Socialism with Buddhist characteristics, we must dramatically expand the educational level of our people. We envision the temporary deployment of technicians and advisers from the USSR to train our own workers. Our main project however, is establishment of technical schools, apprenticeship programs, development of training facilities, and enhancement of information infrastructure to enable a significant development of technical training within Vietnam.
7)Program Name: Colonisation des nouvelles terres
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: While North Vietnam has insufficient land available, in South Vietnam there is significant amounts of territory which currently is uncolonized and which can be settled to increase agricultural production, estimated at well in excess of 1 million hectares. The government's program calls for the relief of the excessive numbers of northern peasants who have insufficient land available (beyond the natural deleterious effects of the capitalist-feudal system upon them which has reduced them to paupers) by the movement of large numbers to the south to newly reclaimed and colonized land. This will also be of help for providing for a broader array of new crops to be grown, important for industrial developments. Cash crops such as sugarcane, cotton, jute, oilseeds, tobacco, tea, and coffee are all projects which the government envisions expanding production of. Our unique location in the subtropical zone shall enable us to export coffee, tea, and tropical fruits to the Soviet Union.
8)Program Name: Reseau ferroviaire
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project:500.000
Description of the undertaking: Vietnam's economy is divided into two distinct zones, with an agriculturally productive south, and an industrially productive north. It is necessary to have the two connected, if there is to be a productive and growing economy. Furthermore, there are obvious reasons of national defense, communication, and national unity which lie behind the creation of an established railroad network. The 100 kilometer Hanoi-Haiphong railroad will be vital to be repaired for coal exported, south Vietnamese railroads improved to bring in rice and passenger travel, the railroads to Chinese worked upon to ease commerce to the Soviet Union through passage through China and better support logistics in this region. In effect all current railroads will be returned to operational status. But the main project that we envision is connecting the North and South of Vietnam through linking together Hanoi and Saigon. Currently there are two major gaps on this line. The first, in the South between Da Nang and Nha Trang, the other between Vinh and Don Ha. Both will be connected. Staff work will be conducted for the need to construct railroads to new mining and industrial centers.
The locomotives, heavy rolling stock, rails, and vehicles for this will almost all have to be imported, preferably from the Soviet Union, and if not from another nation. The Soviet Union presumably will provide technical advisors for such a project. Such is life.
9)Program Name: Amélioration de la production du caoutchouc
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Vietnam had three major exports under the French: coal, rice, and rubber. Rubber is something which desperately needs to be increased again, as our ally the Soviet Union has no source for rubber itself, and it is something which can generate very large economic production for the nation. We aim to increase production to over at least 30.000 tons, which will go principally for export, through the expansion of lands, increased intensity, and scientific practices.
10)Program Name: Programme d'alphabétisation de masse
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: See here
11)Program Name: Industrie légère
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Although in the long run heavy industry will be the most important project for Vietnam, necessary for defense and for the movement beyond a backwards and marginalized economy, at the current time we must move to build up what industry we can as well. Thus the government's investment plans foresee investment into light industry first, to provide for the internal market and for exports. This will consist of textiles, glassware, plastics, rubber goods, tea factories (a necessary import for the USSR which currently has no fellow socialist state which produces tea), fish canneries, and pharmaceuticals being developed, and added to expansions of rice milling (over a score of new rice mills), sugar refining, beer and soft drink manufacture, and cigarette making. In addition we see the restoration of previously damaged and destroyed light industrial capacity. This project also visualizes aiming to enable us to produce our own rifles, and eventually other weapons such as machine guns, mortars, and grenades, which can be manufactured by light industry.
12)Program Name: Industrie lourde
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: Heavy industry is needed to provide the capital goods for the economy which will enable us to be independent, strong, and capable of our necessary internal growth. The government's investment programs see both the restoration of whatever heavy industry capacity is available - very little - but more importantly the construction of new capacity. This will include new electrical power, machine building (with the goal to produce a plant capable of building light metalcutting machine tools, mechanical irrigation pumps, reaping and sowing machines, threshing machines, concrete mixers, small size electical motors, and conveyors), cement, food processing, chemicals (aiming to enable production of chemical fertilizers, insecticides, and industrial chemicals), shipbuilding, rubber, and textile industries. Concrete production is to be expanded as well, although thankfully North Vietnam already has very significant concrete production levels and with the development of an improved transport infrastructure this should be available to the entire nation. In fact concrete production levels are enough that their export to China may be considered. Experimental steel works are also to be set up and staff work commenced for the construction of larger steel works in the long run. Staff work will also be undertaken towards the construction of railroad tracks and trains in the long run.
13)Program Name: L'électrification, voilà le communisme !
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 500.000
Description of the undertaking: To provide for modern industry it is absolutely vital to have electricity. We foresee the creation of a number of dams, all of small to moderate size, to provide for increased electrical power, as well as enhancements of thermal electrical generating capacity. As a current objective we plan for at least 100 million kilowatt hours per year of production to be available. Only with electrification can true socialism be achieved.
14.Program Name: Soigner la nation
Estimated time of investment or period: 2 years
Size of investment or budget for project: 200.000
Vietnam suffers from certain crippling problems in regards to healthcare, mortality, and health. There is an astoundingly small number of physicians, only around 2 per 100,000 people, lower than even surrounding colonial regimes like the Philippines, much less developed nations. It will take much in the way of resources to attempt to counter this, and a full medical nation to reach that of the "civilized" countries is prohibitively expensive. However, we will deploy medical assistants with sufficient training to teach basic healthcare and solve basic problems around the nation, to function as rural doctors and to help educate the people in modern medicine. Clinics will established, with a particular focus on pre-natal and natal care to reduce the infant mortality rate. Work will be put on the distribution of mosquito nets and the eradication of stagnant water sources. Homes will be rendered less unsanity and more modern and healthy, as older structures with insufficient light and air are converted to new buildings which are more salubrious. New schools will be founded for doctors and nurses, and advisers from the Soviet Union brought in. Bacteriological institutes will be established, and new hospitals created.
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