The Rise Of Australasia

Chapter 660 - 502: Surpass France in Four Years, Catch Up with Britain in Eight Years (Asking for Monthly Tickets!)

Medical care construction is similar to education, with the government heavily investing in building large and medium-sized formal hospitals, ensuring that every major city has one or more hospitals to meet the medical needs of Australasians, especially for more serious illnesses.

At the same time, various small clinics are also greatly encouraged by the private sector, which, like technical schools in education, can also alleviate some of the medical pressure.

After all, for some minor symptoms, there is no need to go to a hospital, and some small and medium-sized clinics can fully address these issues.

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

Although Australasia encourages the establishment of more small clinics, this does not mean that individuals can open a clinic on their own.

Anyone who wants to open a clinic must pass the medical qualification exams organized by the official Australasian institutions and obtain a medical qualification certificate to open a clinic.

Although a small medical qualification certificate may force some non-Western medicine practitioners to lose their qualifications as doctors or increase the difficulty of opening their clinics.

But for the country as a whole, stricter medical qualification exams can ensure that those who open clinics have sufficient experience and qualifications. After all, there is no small matter in medical care, and the basic health of the Australasian people must be taken care of.

There are currently about 27 large hospitals founded by the Australasian Government, with an average of two large hospitals per state.

In more populous states like New South Wales and Victoria, there are even more than three large hospitals.

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

After entering peacetime, Prime Minister Kent’s expectation for Australia’s economy is an annual growth rate of about 9%, which means that by the end of the Four-Year Plan, Australasia’s GNP is expected to reach 3.445 billion US dollars, ranking seventh in the world before the war but already in the top five afterward.

In summary, if this Four-Year Plan can be successfully implemented, Australasia will become one of the top five in the world in terms of industry, economy, and military scale in four years, sitting at fifth place among the Powers, competing for third place, and having the strength to fight any country other than Britain and France.

Of course, this does not mean that there is no strength to fight against Britain and France. However, Britain and France can rely on their numerous colonies to recuperate, and facing these two countries, Australasia has no hope of victory for the time being and absolutely no need to compete with them.

French interests lie mainly in Africa and Europe, which are also the areas of interest for Australasia.

Although the British have interests in all oceans, they currently regard France and the United States as their competitors, and Britain also needs Australasia to share pressure from the United States.

In addition to the major items in the Four-Year Plan, there are some minor ones that have not been highlighted, such as highway and railway construction.

For a country, the mileage of highways and railways is crucial, as it not only promotes economic exchanges between each other but also enhances control over various regions.

Since there has already been a plan for railway and highway construction, it is not mentioned in this Four-Year Plan, but the original railway and highway construction plans must still be vigorously implemented.

In addition to these, in the next step of the country’s development, the construction of large reservoirs and hydroelectric power stations are also crucial, even no less important than industrial development.