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Just after Fan Heng inspected the offshore drilling project. When he returned to land in a carrier-based helicopter, he noticed that there was a large group of people making a fuss below, and it seemed that there were police cars and police officers working on the scene, so he ordered the pilot to lower the helicopter a little more to see what was going on.

Wu Fukuan, the governor of Donghai Province, said with some concern, "Chief, it is not safe to lower the flight altitude. ”

Fan Heng replied, "It's okay, I often fly at low altitude when I am in the rock, and the advantage of a helicopter is that it is convenient, and you can check the situation on the ground at any time, but a special plane will not be." ”

The driver lowered the height according to Fan Heng's request, and then saw the situation clearly, it turned out that it was near a private gas station, and there were about two or three hundred people gathered, holding sticks and confronting each other, while about 50 police officers drove more than a dozen police cars in the middle to avoid violent clashes between the two sides.

"Let's find out what's going on?" Wu Fukuan felt a little unbearable on his face.

Fan Heng finally came to Donghai Province to inspect once, but this kind of thing happened, Wu Fukuan's heart was naturally very uncomfortable, so he asked people to contact the following. See what the hell is going on.

The co-pilot immediately contacted the following through the radio, and soon figured out the situation, it turned out that there was an incident at a private gas station on the highway between Linzhou City and Haicheng City in Donghai Province, and the two groups of people started to work below.

"What is the reason?" Fan Heng asked.

"I heard it's because of the quality of the oil." The co-pilot replied.

Fan Heng nodded, and he understood something in his heart.

Looking at the situation in the world, the collapse of the NASDAQ has not had a great impact on the actual economy of China, but has given the country a chance to perform in a unique way.

This year is a good year for China's economy, and under the favorable impetus of the upcoming accession to TO, the macroeconomic sentiment index has risen significantly since the beginning of the year, and the GDP will almost exceed 9 trillion yuan, an increase of 8 percentage points over the previous year, and the economic efficiency of enterprises has improved.

The most surprising and exciting scene is that the state-owned enterprises, which have always been sluggish, have actually performed the most eye-catching, and their numbers have been greatly reduced, but their efficiency has increased by leaps and bounds, and they have achieved a total profit of more than 200 billion yuan for the whole year, an increase of 140 percent year-on-year, setting a record for the highest level of profitability since the 90s.

All this, of course, is brought about by the strategic adjustment of "retreating from the country and advancing the people."

The reform, which began more than two years ago, has been carried out in a firm and hectic manner, and since the central government has not yet issued a concrete plan for the reform of clarifying property rights, the privatization experiments in various regions have shown their own powers.

In those areas where state-owned assets are monopolized, changes are also underway, but in a different way.

In general, there are roughly three changes, one is a large-scale overall overseas listing, China Telecom, China Unicom, PetroChina, etc. have decided to list in New York or Hong Kong successively. The collective entry of state-owned companies into the sea by the traditionally conservative is by no means just an ordinary issue of overseas financing, which involves a great determination and painful choice to take the initiative to change.

Second, based on the large-span split and reorganization to break the monopoly and enhance competition, the oligarchs quietly raised the scalpel to themselves amid the accusations of the world against the telecommunications and other industries. China Telecom will be divided into five, China Petroleum and Petrochemical will be reseparated, China's civil aviation will be reorganized, China's nonferrous metals group will be dissolved on the spot, China's five major military industrial groups will be divided into ten, and almost all old state-owned companies are splitting up.

Third, the group of entrepreneurs of state-owned companies has surfaced, showing their true colors as entrepreneurs. As the direct operators of the two major changes of listing and restructuring, this group that has always been low-key and stable has been pushed to the forefront, and their entrepreneurial potential has been stimulated and displayed like never before.

The international media has also observed this change, with the Asian Wall Street Journal arguing in a review that the new actions of these monopolies are a sign that China's economic model is undergoing a major change.

Among these events, the changes in the petroleum and petrochemical industry are the best example of the above judgment.

At the beginning of this year, the most sought-after commodity in the country was gas stations, and in some places, its price has skyrocketed three or four times. Gas stations are in demand. Not because it's particularly profitable, but because someone is robbing.

The oil industry is the backbone of the national economy, and according to the rules of the TO, once China joins the organization, it will reduce the import tariff on refined oil products to six percent within one or two years, retail sales within three years, and wholesale within five years.

In order to cope with this inevitable competitive situation, since the beginning of the previous year, China's petroleum and petrochemical industry, which has been in the exclusive monopoly, has carried out a major reorganization, and established two major group companies, PetroChina and Sinopec.

According to the plan at that time, the two major enterprises divided the country's oilfield resources and the assets of oil refining enterprises, and implemented the division of the Yangtze River as the boundary in their business.

This scheme seems to not only form an enterprise pattern of upstream and downstream integration, but also avoid face-to-face business competition.

After the formation of the two major oil groups, the competition for gas stations immediately began. In the eyes of their decision-makers, as long as they can get all the gas stations in their pockets before the multinational oil majors break into China, it will naturally form a Maginot line, at least in the future.

At the beginning of this year, Sinopec took the lead in announcing that it would spend 25 billion yuan on the acquisition of gas stations within five years, and PetroChina immediately proposed a completely similar acquisition plan, but in practice, the actual investment greatly exceeded this budget.

According to the principle of dividing the river and ruling the country, the two major enterprises should buy on their own turf, but this agreement was soon broken, and gas stations across the country suddenly became the object of robbery.

At present, the cost of building a gas station in an economically developed coastal city ranges from about 600,000 yuan to 1 million yuan, but in the takeover war, the sale price has risen due to the bidding of the two giants. Some popular sites have tripled or quadrupled in a year.

According to Southern Weekly, the two companies' grabbing for whatever costs has raised the cost of the price. In Sichuan, the cost of buying a gas station ranges from about 2 million to 8 million yuan, while in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, it is generally around 10 million to 15 million yuan.

In Shishi, Fujian province, Sinopec and PetroChina fought for more than a dozen rounds for a strategically located medium-sized gas station.

According to the data recently announced by Sinopec, more than 9,000 new gas stations will be added nationwide this year, which means that nearly 30 will be acquired every day, bringing the total number of gas stations in the entire group to more than 25,000. PetroChina confidently said that more than 4,500 new gas stations will be added this year, bringing the total number of gas stations to more than 11,000.

At present, there are about more than 80,000 gas stations in the country, including a lot of private gas stations, these private gas stations have become the target of the two major companies, under the guidance of various almost harsh industry policies, private gas stations are facing an existential crisis, coupled with the existence of various uncertainties, so the acquisition of the two major oil companies, in fact, has become their most rare opportunity, so in a short period of time, the private capital of gas stations has almost all withdrawn.

In addition to pocketing existing gas stations, PetroChina and Sinopec have also implemented two monopolistic strategies in the name of national interests. First, it has obtained the monopoly qualification for new gas stations, and the State Economic and Trade Commission and other three ministries and commissions have issued the "Notice on Strictly Controlling the Issue of New Gas Stations". It is clearly stipulated that in the future, the new gas stations in various places will be unified by the two major groups of Sinopec and PetroChina.

Twenty days after the notice, Jiaxing City in Zhejiang Province issued a government approval approving the construction of 24 new gas stations, 18 of which were to be built by investors other than the two groups.

The approval of this place immediately caused a backlash from the oil authorities, causing a small quarrel.

The media's analysis hit the nail on the head: before the notice of the Economic and Trade Commission, all localities had the authority to build gas stations, but after the "strict control", the tax revenue mainly went to the central government, and the local government lost a piece of financial resources, so there will naturally be a rebound.

The second is to carry out large-scale and compulsory co-optation and exclusion of private oil fields.

In the mid-to-late nineties. Private capital has penetrated into the field of oil exploitation, and in Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Jilin and other places, private owners are engaged in oil extraction through joint operation and contract development.

These oilfields are small, low-scale wells with high production costs, and some are even abandoned wells abandoned by state-owned oil fields. The existence of these wells has seriously threatened the profitability of the two major oil companies, and the existence of these private owners is considered to be the source of disrupting the oil market and creating environmental pollution. As a result, the co-ordination and consolidation of these privately owned oil wells has become a strategic measure.

There is a very illustrative example in the media.

Located in Kuqa County, Xinjiang, the Yiqi Creek Oilfield is China's first abandoned oilfield, and after nearly 30 years of exploitation since 1958, nearly 300 wells have been drilled, producing more than 900,000 tons of crude oil. Due to the gradual decrease in the crude oil production of the oilfield and the fact that it is close to depletion, it is recognized by PetroChina Tarim Oilfield Branch as having no industrial exploitation value and is classified as a waste oil well.

The year before last, PetroChina withdrew from the Yiqi Creek oil field, and soon, a private enterprise called Jinhe entered the oil field, and it reached a cooperation intention with the local government to extract oil from nearly 300 abandoned oil wells, which can produce about 40,000 tons of oil per year.

The Tarim Oilfield Branch repeatedly reported to the autonomous regional government that the cooperation between the Kuqa County Government and Jinhe Company was an act of ultra vires in the development of oil and gas resources, which violated the Mineral Resources Law and infringed on PetroChina's prospecting rights.

As in the case of the construction of a gas station in Jiaxing, the monopoly of oil companies on the oil fields has also caused a backlash from local interests.

Not long ago, PetroChina also submitted a report to the State Economic and Trade Commission, opposing the Lingxi Provincial Government's plan to reorganize the private oil fields in Lingxi Province within the province. According to the report, private and county-level drilling and production companies in Lingxi have indiscriminately engaged in indiscriminate mining and have joined hands with private oil bosses to seize more than 10,000 square kilometers of oil fields owned by PetroChina, and the two sides have had many disputes over the years, triggering more than 150 group clashes and resulting in many casualties.

The Lingxi Provincial Economic and Trade Commission also submitted a report to the State Economic and Trade Commission, arguing that local oil development has embarked on a scientific, standardized, and orderly track, and that local oil companies, with local oil companies as the main body, have the ability to rationally develop oil fields.

The report also said that PetroChina took advantage of the national resource management mechanism and its own convenience to preemptively register most of the oil resources in Lingxi, and even registered some oil fields originally developed in the province under its own name, resulting in idle resources. And no substantial development has been carried out.

The report also said that without oil, the local finances in the northwestern part of Lingnan will be in trouble again, and the people's will will be unstable.

It is precisely because PetroChina and Sinopec not only rob each other of resources, but also grab resources from private enterprises, and use the dominant position of policy to dump private enterprises and local enterprises, which has triggered a lot of backlash in various places.

Fan Heng observed the situation below on the plane, the geographical location of this gas station is really very good, and the scale is relatively large, coupled with the private identity, it is strange not to be regarded as a thorn in the flesh by others!

It is conceivable that among the two sides of the conflict below, there may not be people from the two major oil companies who are instigating behind their backs.

"The appearance of the two major oil companies is too ugly!" Fan Heng said casually.

"Oil prices have risen sharply recently, and if the two major oil companies completely monopolize the market, I'm afraid we won't even be able to drive a car." Wu Fukuan also complained about the market encroachment of the two major oil companies, and when he heard the rumors, he had to make a small report to express his dissatisfaction.

After all, because of the market expansion behavior of the two major oil companies, it has caused a large loss of local tax revenue in Donghai Province, which makes Wu Fukuan feel very distressed, and it is impossible not to complain.

Fan Heng nodded and said, "Dividing the river and ruling is just wishful thinking, in fact, when it comes to the market, everything is up to others, even if they are like brothers, there are times when they look at the wall, not to mention the opponents with conflicting interests?" It's just that the market competition is so noisy that I really don't know who went wrong? ”

After Fan Heng saw the situation here, he had already decided that after going back, he must cool down the leaders of the two major oil companies, at least let them know that they should be restrained a little, and if they continue to make trouble like this, even if they monopolize the market, they will become what Qianfu is referring to.

Coercive monopolies formed by executive orders, such as PetroChina and Sinopec, are obviously more hated than natural monopolies formed by relying on R&D capabilities and market share, as Microsoft.

The fire of buying a gas station really needs to be operated under control, and the fire must not be allowed to burn itself.

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