In simple terms, rural areas with good development potential and relatively superior conditions will definitely receive focused attention, so that limited resources can be utilized to their fullest.
During the first and second five-year plans, although East Africa emphasized balanced development, it was inevitable that cities, especially large ones, had a significant advantage in industrialization, with development speeds noticeably faster than other regions.
This issue was also faced by the Soviet Union in the previous life, where despite the initial city development policies emphasizing control over large city growth, decades proved that almost no significant impact was achieved.
Ernst once considered the development of East Africa according to the German city model, but decades of practice have proven this is not feasible.
