Even if it's just to make them self-sufficient, they could live much better lives.
In some backward areas with large populations, where everyone is destitute, they could entirely establish their own industrial chains to ensure improvements in food, clothing, shelter, and transportation for themselves.
This requires massive amounts of money to be invested into them.
If mineral resources could be found in backward areas, that would be even better; they'd be sure to develop.
Nowadays, Ma Lin pays close attention—whenever a medium or large mine is discovered in a backward region, he must figure out ways to excavate it so the area can be developed.
Efforts in education are also crucial.
Technological advancements and improving the quality of the population are the main means to achieve higher living standards.
The question is, what can one accomplish?
He understands that waiting for him are endless tasks of intense labor.
