1. Part 4 Industry

2. Manufacturing Centers in Eastern Europe and Russia

3. Major Manufacturing Regions of Russia

4. The Former Soviet Union
• Moscow developed light industry in the last days of the
Tsars and St. Petersburg focused on machinery, optics,
medical equipment, shipbuilding, chemicals & textiles
• Soviets emphasized heavy industry-established Nizhni
Novgorod (southeast of Moscow) as the “Detroit of the
Soviet Union”
• WW II Soviets shifted industries east to protect them from
the German advance-Volga area & Urals
• Ural Mountains provided metallic ores:copper, iron, nickel,
chromite, bauxite, etc.
• Siberia coal and iron remained important
• Kuzbas, Krasnoyarsk and Lake Baykal region served by
Trans-Siberian Railroad-impressive coal, timber & water
resources

5. Major Manufacturing Regions of East Asia
Shanghai Steel
Mill

6. • Japan built steel mills in Eastern Asia-China
Dongbei (Manchuria)
during its occupation in
WW II
• From 1949 until 1969
Soviet planners helped
the China industrialize
• Tonghua Iron & Steel is
subsidized and operated
by the Communist
Party.
• Built in 1958, it employs
29,000 workers-China
produces 30% of the
world’s steel

8. Eastern Asia-China
• Shanghai recently beat out
Rotterdam as the busiest
port in the world.
• China has many jobs that or
outsourced or moved
offshore.
• Northeast is China’s rust
belt with many state-run
inefficient factories.
• Dalian, Shanghai, Zhuhai,
Xiamen & Shenzhen- smog-
choked cities jammed with
people-rapidly changing
with new construction &
renewal

9. • Shenyang on the Liao Eastern Asia-China
River became the
“Chinese Pittsburgh”
with machine-making
and steel production.
• Shanghai & Chang River
district is the 2nd largest
industrial region of
China-rail cars, ships,
books, food & chemicals
• Enormous labor force,
low daily wages, few
restrictions have
attracted foreign
companies to China’s
Special Economic Zones
(SEZs) Coal=65% of China’s energy &
Consumption could double in 20 years

10. Shoe factories in Guangdong Province China

11. A Dormitory for Workers in Dongguan, China

12. • ½ the US population, size of Eastern Asia-Japan
California, limited resources,
yet remarkable industrial
growth-Meiji Restoration
1860s
• Kanto Plain includes Tokyo-
Yokohama-Kawasaki metro
areas=2nd biggest
megalopolis on earth-
produces 20% of Japan’s total
goods
• Kansai District, Kobe-Kyoto-
Osaka triangle is the 2nd area-
The Imperial Palace in
steel, chemicals, autos,
Tokyo
shipbuilding & textiles

13. After WW II, Japanese industry
recovered quickly due to its
large supply of cheap, highly
skilled labor

14. • Japan rapidly
industrialized in
the late 19th cent.
• Due to a lack of
resource, Japan
acquired colonies
on the Asian
mainland at the
expense of China.
• In the 1930s
militarists
dominated the
government &
began a policy of
further expansion.

15. At left-Kamikaze pilots
bow before the
Emperor
• Right-the
ruined
Japanese
landscape
after
WWII