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[SIZE=3]French Four-Year Plan for Indochina[/SIZE]
French Indochina will hold an election on the first Sunday of September (September 7th) to elect a Governor-General for Indochina. The results of this vote will need to be approved by the French Parliament. The Governor-General will serve for five years but may be dismissed through either a vote of censure (no-confidence) either by the French Parliament or the Indochina Governing Council. The Governor-General will be responsible for setting up the Indochina plebiscite (which will likely take place sometime in 1945).

Aims of the Plan
The French government's overriding principle is to create a situation whereby Indochinese people have the education and opportunity to be successful: it is described as "The opportunity to take opportunities." As such, France is largely funding education, health, and public-sector infrastructure rather than directly subsidizing potential employers. (However, some few exceptions exist.)

Education
The French administration is concentrating on two different branches of education, aimed at giving the Indochinese people sufficient education to be prepared for work in a modern society. The system attempts to provide results on the basis of merit rather than affluence or race. At the end of primary education, a student is provided with the option to continue in one of the two main tracks, either attending an agricultural or technical school, or attending a secondary school offering university preparatory work. Only Primary Education is required, but if a student demonstrates interest in continuing to secondary or post-secondary education, and passes a performance exam, then he or she will be able to continue as far as they are able.

- Primary Education: eight grades, teaching reading, mathematics, languages, civics.
- Agricultural and Technical Schools: generally two to four years, offers training in technical subjects including agriculture, electrical and mechanical work, commercial subjects such as finance, etc. There are technical schools which specialize in the training of nurses, civil servants, and primary-level teachers.
- Secondary Education: optional four-year education aimed at preparing students for university.
- University / Post-secondary: Advanced education.

Health
Although the best health care facilities are mainly found in the larger cities, efforts are underway to expand the coverage available. A large minority of hospitals in Indochina are operated by Catholic religious orders, sometimes operated as tax-free institutions and other times as for-profit institutions. Other hospitals are operated by the government. The colonial administration is working to provide a standard to prevent medical malpractice and ensure quality health care, and they certify doctors and hospitals which meet standards (which may be stripped of their certification). One of the current short-term solutions for the medical coverage issue is the Corps sanitaire, composed of a number of regional mobile hospitals which travel by truck to remote areas to set up field clinics for several weeks, treating local patients and offering further training to local doctors.

Public-Sector Infrastructure
The colonial administration deals with three main types of public-sector infrastructure: roads, water, and wastewater. (Electricity and telephone/telegraph is currently deemed private-sector.) Roads are generally concentrated in the vicinity of the larger cities, and some highways connect the cities, though many of these are unpaved, with the heaviest traffic falling on the railways or on riverine transport. The administration is in the process of renovating major city roads as well as inter-city highways, and in the process are addressing drainage issues. The development of new water and wastewater systems is likewise centered in the large cities, though this is where the problems are most acute and the changes being carried out have the greatest level of effects, particularly where sanitation is a major concern of health officials.

Special Programs
The company Atelier Industriel de l'Aéronautique d'Indochine (AIAI) is established in Saigon for the purposes of repairing and building aircraft for the Armee de l'Aire in the Indochina region. Although the facilities were built and are owned by the French government, it is managed and operated by Loire-Nieuport under a six-year contract due to expire 1946. Direction des constructions navales additionally operates, on behalf of the French Marine Nationale, a shipyard in Saigon.

As part of the development, the French colonial government strongly encourages the participation of religious and private charity organizations.

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Originally posted by BruceDuncan
"The investments in basic services, health and education that you have outlined far exceed the efforts put forth by many powers for the betterment of conditions in their colonies. The reliance you have placed upon the private sector for job creation is reassuring in a time of clamor for increased state intervention. But I would respectfully inquire whether France would allow, or even permit, the investment by non-French firms in private sector commercial or industrial ventures in Indochina?"

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Part Six. Signage
- A. Uniform signage shall be used across the extent of the motorway system, according to designs prepared by the Chief of Signage and approved by the Committee of Engineers.
- B. Signs shall be placed a minimum of thirty meters apart from each other to permit time for motorists to read and understand the signs.
- C. Signs shall be visible and readily identifiable at no less than two hundred meters.
- D. Signage shall be constructed with high-visibility materials to permit recognition in darkness or inclement weather conditions.
- E. Signs shall be manufactured using the language and alphabet appropriate to the country.
- F. Each country will maintain at the border stations a kiosk containing a map of the motorway system, a summary of applicable motoring laws (if any), and a guide to understand any special signs in the country.
- G. All distance signs shall be marked in meters and kilometers.
- H. Distance markers shall be placed every kilometer.
- I. Standardized signs will include (but not be limited to) the following: maximum and minimum speed limits (if applicable),