Geografie 1978, 83, 1-8
Industry as a Source of the Economic Potency of the Regions
Thirty years ago, the process of nationalization in the ČSSR has been finished as a consequence of the transition of the national and democratic revolution in a socialistic revolution; its culmination was the victory of the working people in February in the year 1948. Owing to the changes in property, the possibility of a planned economy and socialistic development of economy has arisen, which has been formed by the economic and social programme of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The main aim of this policy was to equalize the differences between the non-industrial and industrial areas, or industrialization of economically less developed areas. Tho socialistic Czechoslovakia is a significant industrial state with the contribution 1,6 % of the whole of the world production. The industry is the main source of the national product (67,4 %) and national income (64,1 %). The industrial production and employment is, therefore, the main source of the wealth of the people. In this article, the points of view of the industrialization of the districts are analysed according to the contribution to the industrial production and the employment as a whole. We examine the influence and composition of the employment from the point of view of the industry in the single districts and the effect of industry as a factor causing migration of the people seeking employment in the prefered centres. But, on the other hand, it has also a function of a stabilisator of the inhabitants; this is important with the respect to the equal settlement and utilization of the potency of the regions, districts. The differences in industrialization of regions, districts may be seen on maps. A certain degree is reached, when the main centres of industry do not grow in their centres as far as the number of manpower is concerned, but a shift to the benefit of the tertiary sphere may be perceived. This article is a contribution to the problems of the structural changes in industry which are regularly realized as a consequence of the scientific and technical revolution and internal and external integration, especially in the frame of the Council of mutual economic help.
