Qi Yiming defined the time from 88-91 as a "strategic shutdown period", there were too many big things done in the past few years, which has attracted a lot of attention, and the banner of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger is almost unbearable, plus the top also feels that it is much cheaper, it is time to stop digesting and absorbing the things. After all, the supreme spirit of the country is now centered on economic construction, reform and opening up, and it is really annoying to constantly send troops abroad.

One of the greatest achievements of foreign wars is that it has completely stabilized the situation in the South China Sea and formed a posture of cooperation and balance with the United States. At this time, the understanding of the South China Sea oil in the world is not clear enough, and the United States is basically based on geostrategic considerations, although it was previously dissatisfied with China's practice of supporting the puppet in Southeast Asia, but after the establishment of the Nanyang Republic, the United States has acted more favorably in the South China Sea.

According to the agreement secretly reached with the US side, the US fleet can enter any port of the Nanyang Republic for replenishment and rest after being notified and approved at the first time.

Vietnam was completely blocked by the navy outside the nine-dash line, and any move towards the Spratly and Paracel would be met with a strong backlash, and the state of war between China and Vietnam was still unresolved, so there was nothing to say. Due to the strong pressure of the United States and the experience of Vietnam, the Philippines finally withdrew its troops from the eight islands and reefs it occupied at the end of 87, and the Marines built a post on Thitu Island and made use of the airfields and other facilities built by the Philippines. After the collapse of the Taiwan authorities, Taiping Island was also smoothly taken over, and there was no need to continue the navy's plan of constantly using sea fortresses to sit on the beach in Nansha. This is already all within the range of the country's potential, monitoring and cruising can be taken care of at any time, even if someone provokes without opening their eyes, they can block back in minutes, not to mention that the Philippines and Vietnam may not have the courage to do this, what Malaysia and Indonesia look like now, everyone has eyes.

For example, the United States also has many small islands in the Pacific Ocean, and there are naturally other countries nearby, but no one dares to touch the islands and reefs of the United States. It's just a big deal. Now China is the most powerful in the South China Sea, with all-weather corvettes and law enforcement ships patrolling, and the military is so prosperous, even if neighboring countries covet it, unless their brains are broken, they will definitely not stupidly go up and let China be beaten.

Qi Yiming couldn't help but think of the era before he traveled from here, when the South China Sea was full of turmoil, and many angry young people wanted to teach those monkey countries a hard lesson, Qi Yiming was also sometimes not calm, but although the high-level view lacked blood, it was by no means lacking in wisdom, if China was strong enough to compete with the United States in the region, then who would dare to come to find trouble? It's just a big deal.

There are several conditions that are different from those in another timeline for the easy recapture of the South China Sea, one is the international environment, China and the United States are essentially allies, even if China's actions are a bit big, but the United States also maintains the scope of understanding; The other is the period of strategic opportunity, and the late Cold War period is about the last period of meat that can be left for other countries.

The oil and gas resources under the South China Sea are almost half of the Middle East, although most of them are in the deep sea, the exploitation is relatively difficult, and the threshold for technology is also high, but it is not a problem for the base technology reserve. After CNOOC received the bid, it began to drill wells and explore according to the information in the database, and Xisha, Dongsha and Nansha are all oil-rich storage areas, although it is a preliminary exploitation, but the manager of CNOOC issued a military order, and the daily output will reach one million barrels per day within a year.

If we add in the production of traditional oil fields such as Daqing, Shengli, Liaohe, and Karamay, which have undergone two rounds of technological transformation, the supply of crude oil is even surplus in China's current economic aggregate.

Qi Yiming suggested in the book that even if there is a surplus of crude oil, do not export in the short term, and the country's main export force is now industrial manufactured products, and there is no need to sell resources. This year, the national economic policy has suspended the encouragement of the export of raw material products, and comprehensively entered the world market with high value-added products.

In fact, China is not a big resource country, although the reserves are relatively large, but the per capita holdings are insufficient, and the exploitation of resources will inevitably lead to environmental damage, so we must be cautious. The rare earth minerals that accounted for 96% of the world's total exports in later generations are now about to be stuck from the source, and the rare earth reserves of the United States and Russia are larger than China's, but the United States closed down 87 large-scale rare earth mines very early, but instead scolded China with the European Union for not exporting. In this era, the demand for industrial vitamins that should be mainly used in the 3C electronics industry is not as terrible as that of later generations, and even because the leader of the electronics industry is not the United States, it is a rising star of China, so the consumption of the country needs a small amount of imports because of insufficient mining. Among the many strategic resources listed by the state, rare earths are listed among them, which also forms a situation where rare earth exports are likely not to appear in the future.

Naturally, China will not export any resources and minerals, such as antimony ore China accounts for 40% of the world's reserves, and tungsten ore is four times the total reserves of other countries in the world, so it will definitely have to export some. In addition, the coal mine with the largest reserves in the world, after the domestic thermal power was suppressed by Qi Yiming, except for the high-clean Allied thermal power plants, which are still burning coal, other thermal power plants have been shut down. Coal mines are now also mainly used for coal chemical and metallurgy, and are no longer used for power generation.

However, there are many other countries that burn coal, such as China's two neighbors, Japan and South Korea, which are important importers of coal in the world. In particular, Japan also implemented a policy of duty-free coal imports in the 80s, and China established a large coal export trade after negotiations with it.

Coal mining is naturally easy to damage the environment, but it is a pity not to dig it, so we can only set up high-standard environmental protection policies and strengthen supervision and protection. For example, the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries are also coal exporters, but they have not seen their mining areas full of devastation, which is nothing more than the result of some Chinese coal bosses who have no awareness of environmental protection. At the moment when domestic demand for coal is plummeting, the state really can't so blindly open up private capital into the coal mining industry, this is not a matter of competing with the people for profit, the state-owned mining companies are powerful and can control them, but a bunch of coal bosses are scattered in the provinces, how can not be caught.

In the past, in the process of reform and opening up, such as coal, oil and other resources, large state-owned companies would subcontract some small mining areas and small oil wells that were inconvenient to concentrate on mining or too expensive to private bosses, and the private bosses would lease the equipment of state-owned companies and then carry out mining.

In the era when the whole people fight for the economy and the whole country fights for GDP, this is naturally a way to optimize the distribution of resources, the state gets resources, private individuals get money, workers get jobs, and everyone is happy. But is it really a joy for everyone, because of the lack of supervision and lack of awareness of protection, the mining areas mined by these private owners often cause huge damage to geology, water resources and vegetation, which are hidden costs that are difficult to recover, and they are passed down from generation to generation, directly destroying the living environment of our children and grandchildren.

Qi Yiming naturally understands that in the era when the country needs rapid development and the people need a higher standard of living, this is a last resort, either starvation or haze, which is sad. At this time, because of his strong intervention, the country has a new choice, and he naturally hopes to take a flatter and wider road, leaving the undestroyed homeland to future generations.

Another major construction in the energy field is the construction of a national natural gas supply pipeline led by PetroChina and participated by Qi Yiming. In Qi Yiming's impression, his parents' hometown only began to build natural gas pipelines after 2000, and he also carried gas tanks for his family when he was a child. Some cities near the 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 fact, such a situation did not support a few years, after entering the 90s, with the continuous maturity of LNG ship technology and the change of the international environment, natural gas has also become a huge sweetheart.

Under such a favorable situation, Qi Yiming established the Fuhua Gas Supply Pipeline Company in the name of his little girlfriend Jiang Huayan, and took over a large amount of natural gas from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and other countries in the Middle East with extremely cheap underwriting contracts. Wielding his surplus funds, he made large LNG ships from the Red Police Shipyard (the tonnage of civilian ships will increase), and on the other hand, he placed orders for domestic shipyards that digested LNG technology to import LNG from the Middle East and other places on a large scale.

On the domestic side, such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, major coastal provincial capitals, and economically developed cities, Qi Yiming has started a mighty civil pipeline construction work, although the investment seems huge, but Qi Yiming knows that the future returns are rich. Even if the natural gas that arrives in advance cannot be supplied before the pipeline is completed, Qi Yiming can also have a base to convert natural gas into a base and use funds to produce equipment or something, and it is not a loss to calculate, but things like US dollars are of the least value to him.

In addition to imported natural gas, some domestic oil fields actually have a large amount of natural gas waiting to be developed. In the past, the country's technology was weak, and the utilization rate of natural gas was very low, such as building a house in a city near the Shengli Oilfield, and accidentally drilled a well when laying the foundation, because there was no way to collect it, so it was lit to let the gas well dry burn, and it burned for several years, which is just a small gas well.

Improve the equipment and technology of the oil fields, so that they can supply gas nearby, and the oil fields will also have income, and their own costs will also be reduced, and everyone is happy.