Chapter 600 Revisits the Anda Line

Just when the wealthy people in Pingchuan County are concerned about the leasing of residential areas in the ancient city, at a meeting of the Pingchuan County Government, Liu Zhi, deputy county magistrate, made a proposal to "rectify the order of rental cars in Pingchuan County", in view of the increasing demand for rental cars among residents in Pingchuan County, and the rental car market is currently a little disorganized because it has not been adequately managed. On the one hand, the people's demand for cars is not satisfied; on the other hand, a large number of black cars have appeared, which has not only further disrupted the market order, but also brought about many negative impacts, causing dissatisfaction among many residents. Liu Zhi sorted out some information about the police station, the industrial and commercial bureau, and the consumer association since he arrived in Pingchuan County, and distributed them to the others present at the meeting, which made his proposal even more substantial.

Liu Zhi pointed out that in order to rectify the order of the taxi market in Pingchuan County, and also to further promote the standardized development of rental cars in Pingchuan County, he plans to introduce capital in the near future and set up two regular taxi companies in Pingchuan County to standardize the taxi market in Pingchuan County, and at the same time intensify efforts to crack down on non-standard black cars in the market and ensure the legitimate rights and interests of the residents of Pingchuan County. At the meeting, because Liu Zhi's matter was said suddenly, these officials of the county government still needed time to ponder the matter, so no resolution was reached, but Liu Zhi's goal had actually been achieved.

Because the county magistrate Lu Liang was a little indifferent to Liu Zhi's move, he neither gave a positive evaluation nor spoke out against it. Many people also believed that this represented Lu Liang's acquiescence to Liu Zhi's behavior, and then, these businessmen from Tianhan City went around to win over and persuade the leaders of various departments in all aspects, and secretly promised countless benefits in exchange for their support. For a time, under the calm and waveless water surface of Pingchuan County, dark waves surged.

Li Dongxing stood in front of his office window, smoking a cigarette, looking at the scorching sun outside, but his heart was not as calm as he appeared.

Regarding Liu Zhi's arrival, to be honest, Li Dongxing has long been mentally prepared, this kind of thing is too commonplace in officialdom, and being able to let himself stay until Pingchuan County is transferred to Fengyuan City is already a great way to save face. Of course, this is also the result of the tacit understanding between Li Dongxing and the Fang family over the years. The result of the Fang family, and the allies of the Fang family, secretly exerting their strength.

Li Dongxing is not attached to the position of secretary of the county party committee of Pingchuan County, he has been in Pingchuan County for many years, he has long been eager to be able to show his talent on a bigger stage, and he is not worried, he will not adapt to the new position, he believes in his own ability, and believes that with the support of the Fang family's financial resources, his ability will inevitably stand out.

But...... This does not mean that he can unconditionally tolerate Liu Zhi starting to expand his influence now, and can indulge him to change the status quo in Pingchuan County.

Regarding Liu Zhi's proposal to "rectify the order of rental cars in Pingchuan County", he read it more than once. Moreover, he also sent a special person to understand the situation of the rectification of the economic order of the taxi industry in Tianhan City, but the conclusion he came to made him feel quite dissatisfied. If it is said that the taxi market in Pingchuan County will be rectified according to the plan proposed by Tianhan City and Liu Zhi in "Rectifying the Order of Taxi Cars in Pingchuan County", then there will only be one result, that is, the future development of the taxi industry in Pingchuan County will completely fall into the hands of these two taxi companies.

Although for the time being, he still can't see any particularly obvious and intolerable drawbacks, but Li Dongxing is keenly aware that if he really rectifies the order of the taxi industry according to this plan, it is very likely that there will be trouble in the future -- taxi licenses can only be issued to companies, and individuals can only apply from the company, and these two companies are both businessmen from Tianhan City.

Although it is said that when Pingchuan County is merged into Fengyuan City, Li Dongxing will be transferred to other posts, and Li Dongxing has long been mentally prepared for this, but Pingchuan County can be said to be where he really started, and it is here that he has become the secretary of the county party committee step by step from a small acting county magistrate, and has become the secretary of the county party committee of the county party committee, which is the economic development of the whole province. It can even be said that Pingchuan County is the work he has created with great effort over the years, although it is a common practice in Chinese officialdom to say that people go to politics, he still does not hope that after he leaves, the current development momentum of Pingchuan County will change. Especially Lu Liang is likely to follow him and leave, which makes Li Dongxing even more uneasy. Therefore, how to beat Liu Zhi is a question that Li Dongxing has pondered repeatedly in the past few days.

Fang Mingyuan was surprised at the news he had just gotten at this time.

Aso sent back news from Russia that some people from Russia's Yuhansk Oil Company were lobbying the government to propose to the Huaxia government to build an oil pipeline from the Siberian oil fields through Mongolia to Huaxia in order to expand oil exports to China. Yugansk Petroleum Company may sound strange to everyone, but its parent company, Yukosky Oil Company, believes that many of them are not unfamiliar.

In the previous life, the three countries of China, Russia and Japan quarreled over the Ontara Line or the Anna Line, or the Tanner Line. The Russian company that supported the Ontario line was the Yukosky Oil Company, but later under the blow of the President of the General Assembly, the owner of the Yukosky Oil Company, Khodorkovsky, was imprisoned, and the Yukosky Oil Company was leaderless, and the Anda Line was naturally powerless to compete with the Anna Line and the Tana Line without the support of Russia. As a result, the fall of the Anda Line, which Huaxia had been preparing for more than ten years, made the Chinese people sigh for it.

Fang Mingyuan immediately investigated the current situation of Yukosky Oil Company, which in its previous life was a giant in the Russian oil industry, ranking second in Russia and fourth in Shijie, and a company that was completely privately held. The company has nearly 200,000 employees, produces 1.7 million barrels of crude oil per day, and exports 1.1 million barrels of crude oil per day, accounting for 10% and 18% of Russia's total crude oil production and exports, respectively. In contrast, Russia had become a major player in the global oil supply. Russia was then the third largest oil producer after Saudi Arabia and the United States, and the second largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia. One can imagine how important the position of Yukosky Oil Company was at that time.

But today, in '93, the Yukoski Oil Company has not yet fallen into the hands of Khodorkovsky, and the Menajep Bank, controlled by Khodorkovsky, will not be able to acquire a controlling stake in the Yukoski Oil Company until two years later. But Yukosky Petroleum already has a large area of oil and gas resources in the Siberian region.

To tell the truth, when Fang Mingyuan asked Aso Kazuki to buy various mineral resources in the Soviet Union, he didn't expect to buy Yukosky Oil Company together. But the Russian government said that it would not transfer anything, and in the end Aso Kazuki could only give up the acquisition, which made Fang Mingyuan feel very regretful. However, he has not forgotten about this company, so let Aso Kazuki always pay attention to its movements and wait for the opportunity.

In Fang Mingyuan's view, the battle for the Ontario line is not only a struggle between China and Japan for energy supply security, but also has a more profound significance.

When the Ontario line was proposed, the price of Shijie oil was relatively stable, and it did not reach the point where it was staggering later, and the amount of crude oil imported by Huaxia at that time was also limited, so it was not very enthusiastic about this proposal. As a result, nearly 10 years after the Ontario line was proposed, the economic research work on the "Ontario line" by the relevant departments of Russia and China was nearing completion, and it was only necessary to wait for the approval of the governments of the two countries. But it was at this time that the Japanese government stepped in.

Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi flew to Moscow to sign the "Russia-Japan Energy Cooperation Jihua" with President Putin. Koizumi submitted to Russia a proposal to build an oil pipeline to allow crude oil to flow to Japan on the basis of the "Cooperation Jihua." In his proposal, Koizumi also promised that after the pipeline is completed and put into operation, Japan will import no less than one million barrels of oil from Russia every day, and is also prepared to provide the Russian Government with a construction loan of $5 billion to assist Russia in developing oil fields and building oil pipelines. At the same time, the South Korean government also came to make trouble, expressing great interest in the "Anna Line" led by Koizumi, and suggesting that Russia accept South Korean financial assistance in order to speed up the implementation of the "Anna Line" oil pipeline plan.

The statements made by the Japanese and South Korean governments immediately caused the Russian government to become half-hearted. The Russian government has always been worried that after the completion and operation of the "Ontario Line", because the export of oil pipelines is completely in China, Russia will lose its dominant position in terms of oil prices and oil supply. If the "Anna Line" can be implemented as soon as possible, not only will the problem of industrial oil in Russia's own Far East be solved, but the oil pipeline will be exported to Nakhodka, from where it will export crude oil to China, Japan, and South Korea, and Russia's political and economic interests will be taken into account.

In fact, it is not difficult to guess the purpose of the Japanese government and the South Korean government. Japan is a major oil importer, and more than 780 percent of its oil comes from the Middle East, which has always been in turmoil, which makes the Japanese feel very uneasy. Russia is the third largest oil producer and the second largest oil exporter, and ensuring a stable supply of oil from Russia is a strategic requirement for Japan's "energy diversification".

The most important of these is that Japan does not want China to control the oil initiative in Northeast Asia alone. In the view of the Japanese government, if the spread of the Chinese shili to the Far East cannot be effectively contained, Japan's economic and political interests in Northeast Asia will be directly threatened. Therefore, the struggle for the oil initiative in the Far East has become an indisputable and important measure to maintain Japan's position in the entire Asian region.

For the governments of Japan and South Korea, the establishment of the Anna Line can ensure the implementation of their strategic goal of diversifying oil imports, and at the same time, it can curb the development of China, increase the cost of China's oil imports, and delay the pace of China's becoming stronger as much as possible.

Of course, some people believe that this is because the governments of Japan and South Korea deliberately did so in order to prevent China from getting too close to Russia. After the Second Shijie War, due to the natural political and military shortcomings of the two countries, it was fundamentally difficult for them to compete with China and Russia, so they could only get rid of the control of China and Russia by alliing with the United States. Therefore, the close relationship between China and Russia is the result that the Japanese and South Korean governments are most unwilling to see, so they should increase their support for the Anna Line and use monetary interests to create new contradictions between China and Russia, thereby increasing the contradictions, conflicts, and distrust between China and Russia.

Regardless of the mentality of the Japanese and Koreans who intervened in this matter, the final results showed that the Japanese and Koreans succeeded. After several years of back and forth, the Russian government finally chose the Tana line, and then built a branch line to the northeast of China.

According to the original Jihua, the first phase of the Ontario line pipeline project will be completed in 2005 and the second phase will be completed in 2010, which will transport a total of 700 million tons of crude oil to China within 25 years, worth about 150 billion US dollars. If Jihua can be successfully turned into a reality, Russia's annual oil exports to China will soar by 20 times to 30 million tons, thus completely changing the situation that Russian crude oil exports to China are all transported by train. The result of the revision is that the 15 million tons per year, 20-year Sino-Russian crude oil pipeline transportation contract, compared with the original Jihua oil supply is almost half of the oil supply, and its construction value is greatly reduced. And until Fang Mingyuan passed away, he did not hear any news about the completion of the Sino-Russian oil export pipeline.

For Fang Mingyuan, who is familiar with the future development direction of Huaxia, he will naturally not let go of this rare opportunity to ensure the diversification of Huaxia's oil supply and avoid the blockade and embargo because of its reliance on shipping. If you look at the Ontario line again, that is the real sadness.

But to take down the Yukosky Oil Company, there is a lot of resistance from non-Russians, and Fang Mingyuan is indeed scratching his head. Could it be that you really have to join forces with Khodorkovsky to take down the Yukosky oil company, and then actively promote the crude oil pipeline Jihua, and get this done before the Japanese and South Koreans react?

Fang Mingyuan had a feeling that if he really wanted to promote this matter, then he had to start from now, and if he dragged it out, he would probably repeat the mistakes of the past