Rebirth of England.

Chapter 941 Development
At the end of August, Kolo President Thomas Kaboré visited Nigeria again. In Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria, Kaboré signed a package of cooperation agreements with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.

Accompanying Cabore on this trip is Ramesh Serrano, CEO of West Africa Group. In this cooperation agreement, West Africa Group will also make large-scale investments in Nigeria.

After all, Nigeria is the largest market in West Africa and even in Africa, with the largest population, and is extremely attractive to West African groups.

As early as the beginning of this year, West Africa United Energy Company, a joint venture established by West Africa Group and United Energy Group in West Africa, has taken over the oil shares in Nigeria from oil companies including Total and ENI. Due to the increasingly chaotic situation in the Niger Delta region, these oil companies are entangled in the resulting reduction in oil production in Nigerian oil fields, and have begun to plan to withdraw from the oil extraction market here.

Now, through the cooperation between West African United Energy Company, Nigerian National Petroleum Company and Shell Oil, efforts will be made to rectify the situation in the Niger Delta.

After all, the Nigerian government itself does not want to see such chaos continue, otherwise it will not only affect local oil production, but will also lead to a sharp drop in the Nigerian government's revenue - at present, oil exports are still Nigeria's main source of income.

Therefore, they will try to solve the situation in the Niger Delta from two aspects.

First of all, the Nigerian government will once again launch the largest amnesty operation for local anti-government forces - the government will increase its share of local oil revenues, provide jobs for anti-government members who lay down their arms, and compensate for confiscated weapons.

In addition, after the amnesty, the Nigerian government will cooperate with relevant military companies (Protector Military Services Company) to intensify the crackdown on the small number of still stubborn anti-government armed forces, and strive to completely restore the local peaceful atmosphere.

To this end, the Protector Military Services Company has expanded its "security base" in the Niger Delta region, and in addition to the original security personnel, more than 500 armed personnel with rich combat experience have arrived here.

In addition to cooperation in the oil sector, the West African Group's investment in Nigeria this time will also involve agriculture, electricity, telecommunications, finance, processing and manufacturing, Internet technology and other fields. The total scale of investment will exceed 1000 billion KSh (about 100 billion US dollars).

If we add in other Kolo state-owned and private capital investments in Nigeria, including the Kolo Industrial Investment Fund, the total scale will be as high as 2000 billion Kolo shillings.

Of course, these investments will not be made immediately. After all, even if the agreement is signed, whether Nigeria can maintain stable cooperation still needs to be continuously observed. The entire cooperation will be implemented in the next five years.

Compared with his predecessor Jammeh Bongo, Thomas Kaboré needs to solve the export problem of Kolo products during his tenure.

It can be said that Jammeh Bongo laid the foundation for the development of the new government of Kolo. With the development over the past decade, Kolo's domestic manufacturing industry has also laid some foundation. It has evolved from the initial simple processing of raw materials to the further production and assembly of more complex products.

Kolo's continued investment in education has also made it possible to expand the scale of their "high-quality" workers (relative to the entire African region). Currently, the scale of Kolo's domestic manufacturing plants has increased dozens or hundreds of times compared to ten years ago - some chemical products and technological products can also be assembled and processed in Kolo.

If Kolo wants to maintain the continued development of its economy and avoid being like Nigeria, where most of the country's income comes from oil exports, then Kolo will inevitably need to expand into more overseas markets.

Of course, other places are difficult, but West Africa is the region they need to develop first, especially a populous country like Nigeria. …

"Yes, the second phase of the Media City project is about to begin. After the completion of the first phase, many media companies have moved in, and now there is a lot of popularity there..."

Earl Bute finally returned to London from Asia. What he talked about with Barron was the Media City built in Manchester by the BBC and SEM Group and supported by the British government.

Currently, the first phase of Media City has been completed. The BBC is still in the process of relocating some of its production operations to Media City, but SEM Group's Summit Studio and some of ITV's post-production departments have already completed the move to Media City.

It can be said that the Media City project is the largest construction project undertaken by Argent Real Estate Group in the UK after the King's Cross renewal project. Naturally, Earl Bute attaches great importance to it.

As a support, in addition to SEM Group, companies including DailyVedio and YouTube have built their post-production centers in Media City to support their own video production and that of some professional users.

Barron has also spoken to cabinet members including Cameron and Joe Harriman about developments in London.

After all, London is the economic center of the UK. It can be said that the world's attention is more focused on London in the UK.

But under such development, Britain has already shown an unbalanced trend, and London's high house prices and rents are not friendly to the innovative development of some industries.

Therefore, according to their plan, they hope to transfer some of London's industries to the surrounding areas, so as to expand London's radiation range and form London's one-hour economic circle.

This is also the reason why the British government attaches so much importance to the High-Speed ​​Rail Line 2. After all, with this high-speed railway line, the scope of the "London 1-hour economic circle" can be greatly expanded, thus providing a broader blueprint for their development.

In this way, people don't have to always focus on London and crowd into such a central location - if commuting can be completed in 1 hour, then the relocation of some industries can be accepted.

However, even though Barron has greatly advanced the progress of High-Speed ​​Rail Line 2 compared to the original time and space, it will take more than three to five years to complete the full operation of this high-speed rail line...

Of course, looking at the bright side, if the London-Birmingham line, which has the fastest project progress, can be completed and put into operation within three years, then the planning of some functional "satellite towns" around London can already begin...

(End of this chapter)