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    Qi Yiming defines the past few years from 6l as a "strategic lull period". There have been too many big things done in the past few years, which have attracted a lot of attention. The banner of pretending to be pigs and eating tigers can no longer be fought. In addition,  Even the superiors felt that they had taken advantage of it, so it was time to take a break to digest and absorb what they had gained.  After all, the country's supreme spirit now centers on economic construction, reform and opening up, and it is really annoying to constantly send troops abroad.

    One of the greatest results of the foreign war is to completely stabilize the situation in the South China Sea and form a situation of cooperation and checks and balances with the United States.  At this time, the understanding of oil in the South China Sea by countries around the world is not clear enough, and the United States is basically considering geostrategic considerations. Although it was previously dissatisfied with China's practice of supporting its puppets in Southeast Asia, after the establishment of the Nanyang Republic, the United States' actions in the South China Sea became more proactive.

    According to the previous secret agreement with the United States, the U.S. fleet can enter any port in the Nanyang Republic for replenishment and rest after temporary notification and permission. The United States also wants to force China and Nanyang to open a naval base, but the high-level officials are determined to do so.  Damn it, I will never let go of this.

    Vietnam is completely blocked outside the nine-dash line by the navy. Any move closer to Nansha and Xisha will be met with strong backlash. The state of war between China and Vietnam has not been lifted, so there is nothing to say.  Due to the strong pressure from the United States and the lessons learned from Vietnam, the Philippines finally withdrew its troops from the eight occupied islands and reefs at the end of 1987. The Marine Corps built an outpost on Thitu Island among them and took advantage of the airport built by the Philippines.  and other facilities.  After the collapse of the Taiwan authorities, Taiping Island was successfully taken over, and the Navy's original plan to continue using sea fortresses to set up beaches on the Nansha Islands was no longer necessary.  This is already the country's sphere of influence. Surveillance and patrols can be taken care of at any time. Even if someone provokes someone without opening their eyes, they can be blocked in minutes. Not to mention that the Philippines and Vietnam may not have the courage. What are Malaysia and Indonesia like now?  , everyone has eyes.

    This is actually a matter of power and national strength. For example, the United States also has many scattered small islands in the Pacific, and there are naturally other countries nearby. However, no one dares to touch the islands and reefs of the United States. Why?  It's just a big move.  China is now the most powerful country in the South China Sea. It has all-weather corvettes and law enforcement ships patrolling, and its military power is so prosperous. Even if its neighbors are coveting it, they will never go up to it unless their brains are broken.  China got a beating.

    Qi Yiming couldn't help but think of the era before he time traveled. At that time, the disputes in the South China Sea were turbulent, and many angry young people wanted to teach those monkey countries a lesson. Qi Yiming sometimes did not calm down, but although the opinions of high-level officials lacked enthusiasm,  But it definitely lacks wisdom. If China is powerful enough to compete with the United States in the region, then who would dare to cause trouble?  It's just a big move.

    The easy retaking of the South China Sea in this dimension also has several conditions that are different from those in another timeline. One is the international environment. China and the United States are de facto allies. Even if China's actions are a bit big, the United States remains within the scope of understanding;  One is a period of strategic opportunities. The late Cold War is probably the last period left for other countries to eat meat.

    The oil and gas resources under the South China Sea are almost equivalent to half of the Middle East. Although most of them are in deep seas, extraction is difficult and the technical threshold is high, but it is not a problem for the base's technology reserve.  After receiving the bid, CNOOC began digging wells and exploring according to the data in the database. Xisha, Dongsha, and Nansha are all rich oil reserves. Although it was preliminary exploitation, CNOOC's manager issued a military order to reach a daily production of one million barrels within a year.

    ¡° If we add in the output of traditional domestic oil fields such as Daqing, Shengli, Liaohe, and Karamay that have undergone two rounds of technological transformation, the supply of crude oil is even surplus based on China¡¯s current economic aggregate.

    Qi Yiming wrote a letter suggesting that even if there is a surplus of crude oil, exports should not be carried out in the short term. The country's main export force is now industrial products, and there is no need to focus on selling resources.  This year's national economic policy has suspended encouraging the export of raw material products, and has fully entered the world market with high value-added products.

    In fact, China is not originally a resource-rich country. Although the reserves are relatively large, the per capita holdings are insufficient. In addition, the exploitation of resources will inevitably lead to environmental damage, so we must be cautious.  Rare earth mines, which later accounted for 3% of the world's total exports, are now stuck at the source. The United States and Russia have larger rare earth reserves than China, but the United States has long closed 87 large rare earth mines.  Instead, they kept scolding the EU for not exporting to China.  In this era, the demand for industrial vitamins, which were mainly used in the 3 electronics industry, was not as terrifying as in later generations. Even because the leader of the electronics industry at this time was not the United States, but a rising star, China, so domestic consumption required a small amount of imports due to insufficient mining.  Among the various strategic resources listed by the country, rare earths are among them. This has created a situation where rare earth exports are likely to not occur in the future.

    Naturally, China will not export any resources and minerals. For example, China accounts for 40% of the world's antimony ore and tungsten ore, which is four times the total reserves of other countries in the world. It must export some.  In addition, it is the coal mine with the largest reserves in the world. Domestic thermal power was suppressed by Qi Yiming.Later, except for the highly clean Allied thermal power plants that still burned coal, other thermal power plants were closed.  Coal mines are now mainly used for coal chemical industry and metallurgy, and are no longer used for power generation.

    ¡°However, there are still many other countries that burn coal. For example, China¡¯s two neighbors, Japan and South Korea, are important coal importers in the world.  In particular, Japan implemented a tax-free coal import policy in the 1980s. After negotiating with Japan, China established a large-scale coal export trade.

    ¡° Coal mining can naturally easily damage the environment, but it would be a pity not to mine it. We can only set up high-standard environmental protection policies and strengthen supervision and protection.  Countries such as the United States, Canada, and Australia are also coal exporters, but their mining areas have not been devastated. It is nothing more than rough mining by some Chinese coal bosses and no awareness of environmental protection.  At a time when domestic demand for coal has dropped sharply, the country really cannot blindly open up private capital to the coal mining industry. This is not a matter of competing for profits with the people. State-owned mining companies are powerful and can be controlled, but a bunch of coal bosses are scattered in various provinces. How can  It can't be caught either.

    In the past, during the process of reform and opening up, large state-owned companies would subcontract some small mining areas and small oil wells that were inconvenient or too costly to concentrate on mining, such as coal, oil and other resources, to private owners. The private owners would then lease the equipment of the state-owned company and then carry out the extraction.  , For projects that are not cost-effective for large state-owned enterprises, they immediately explode after a year or two. I don¡¯t know how many people accumulated their original capital in this way.

    In an era when the whole country is fighting for the economy and the country is fighting for GDP, this is naturally a way to optimize the allocation of resources. The country obtains resources, private individuals obtain banknotes, and workers obtain jobs, and everyone is happy.  But is everyone really happy? Because of inadequate supervision and insufficient awareness of protection, the mining areas mined by these private owners often cause huge damage to geology, water resources and vegetation. These are hidden costs that are difficult to recover and are passed down from generation to generation.  generation, directly destroying the living environment of our descendants.

    Qi Yiming naturally understands that in an era when the country needs rapid development and people need a higher standard of living, this is a last resort choice, either starvation or smog, which is sad.  At this time, because of his strong intervention, the country had a new choice. He naturally hoped to take a flatter and wider road and leave his unbroken homeland to future generations.

    Another major construction project in the energy field is the construction of national natural gas supply pipelines led by PetroChina and participated by Qi Yiming.  In Qi Yiming's impression, the construction of natural gas civil pipelines in his parents' hometown began 26 years later. When he was a child, he also carried gas tanks for his family.  Some cities near oil fields may have used it earlier.

    Natural gas is obviously a necessity in the daily life of urban residents, and the cost of large-scale supply is much cheaper than canned gas and liquefied petroleum gas. In the 1980s, natural gas was as cheap as oil, and because of the difficulty of transportation, so  It is very difficult to sell, which makes many Middle Eastern countries extremely worried.  In fact, this situation did not last for a few years. After entering the 1990s, as LN profile technology continued to mature and the international environment changed, natural gas became a huge hot commodity.

    Under such favorable conditions, Qi Yiming established the Fuhua Gas Supply Pipeline Company in the name of his girlfriend Jiang Huayan, and took over large projects from the Middle East oil-producing countries such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait with extremely cheap underwriting contracts.  Pen of gas.  Using his excess funds, he is manufacturing large-scale LN at Red Alert Shipyard (the tonnage license for building civilian ships will increase), placing orders with domestic shipyards that have digested LN technology, and importing liquefied natural gas from the Middle East and other places on a large scale.

    Domestically, in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, major coastal provincial capitals, and economically developed cities, Qi Yiming has begun extensive civil pipeline construction work. Although the investment seems huge, Qi Yiming knows that the future returns will be huge.  Rich.  Even if the natural gas that arrived in advance cannot be supplied before the pipeline is completed, Qi Yiming can still have a base to convert the natural gas into a base to use funds to produce equipment and so on. After all, it is not a big loss. On the contrary, things like US dollars are not worth it to him.  The value is minimal.

    In addition to imported natural gas from abroad, there is actually a large amount of natural gas waiting to be developed in some domestic oil fields.  In the past, the country's technology was weak and the utilization rate of natural gas was very low. For example, when building a house in a city near the Shengli Oilfield, a gas well was accidentally drilled while laying the foundation. Since there was no way to collect it, a fire was set to let the gas well burn, and it just burned.  It actually burned for several years, and it was just a small gas well.

    By improving the equipment and technology of the oil fields and letting them supply gas nearby, the oil fields will also have income and their own costs will be reduced, and everyone will be happy.
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