Chapter 256: Cover for you
By the time we want to buy oil, the world's oil resources have been carved up by the Western bloc.
The Middle East became the focus of contention between the United States and the Soviet Union.
China is powerless and does not dare to participate in this resource war, and can only base itself on its own oil resource exploration.
Daqing, Shengli, and large oil fields have been explored for oil, and they have taken off the hat of our oil-poor country at once.
In the early days, it strongly supported the domestic industrial modernization.
However, although the reserves of these oil fields are not small, they are very small compared to the world's oil reserves.
In the late eighties, early nineties, we were still an oil exporter, and we still had the ability to export oil.
However, this situation did not last long, and the market changed dramatically.
With the deepening of the opening up of the domestic economy, a large number of foreign-funded companies have come to Huaxia to set up factories, and domestic private enterprises have also flourished, and soon our power supply will be in short supply.
And this gap is also expanding rapidly!
In one fell swoop, we went from being an oil exporter to an oil importer.
In the 21st century, due to the unprecedented economic prosperity of the world, the domestic industry is fully engaged to meet the demand for goods from all over the world.
Huaxia, the "world's factory", is running at full power and supplying orders from all over the world.
Thousands of new factories open every day, and more than 70,000 new jobs are created every day!
The power gap suddenly appeared.
The most developed domestic export industry is the southern coastal area, but there is also a large-scale power shortage.
Every day, the residential area will be shut down and curtailed, and it is not until the evening that the industrial electricity consumption is greatly reduced, and the power supply is gradually restored.
New hydropower and thermal power stations are put into operation every month, but they are still unable to cope with the increasing demand for electricity.
Wait until it's summer.
Hydropower supplies are particularly strained due to the reduction in water volumes.
The power deficit in the entire South has reached 30 billion kilowatt hours, which has seriously affected our ability to share more profits when the world economy is on the fast track.
While vigorously developing the hinterland, China is also racking its brains to consider how to increase the supply of electricity.
Although at this time, we have obtained a lot of benefits through a series of interest exchanges, so that Chinese goods can freely enter and leave the United States.
It has promoted further economic development.
But the United States is not a good stubble, in order to maintain its position, in oil, computers, they will not let go, but on the surface they say very politely:
"We are based on the common development of the world, and if Huaxia needs to buy oil fields, we will provide help within our ability."
At first glance, it feels quite sincere.
But in fact, when Huaxia Petroleum was ready to buy American Oil Company, it was immediately blocked from all sides.
A vigorous acquisition, in the end, had to be put to rest.
We can only admit that it is almost impossible to buy the right to develop an oil field from the Western bloc led by the United States!
Although the hypocrisy of the United States has once again been seen through by the world, the fact that China lacks energy has not changed at all!
In this case.
A large number of Western energy companies began to gather in Beijing.
They lobbied the energy sector to open energy companies in the country.
Of course, Chen Weidong also saw this opportunity, but he did not plunge into it.
As a "person who has come over", he knows very well that it is absolutely impossible for the above to put the control of energy in the hands of foreign companies.
Not to mention foreign companies, even domestic ones, it is impossible to hand them over to private companies.
This is the main reason why he has this ability, but he has not entered the field of energy supply for a long time.
Domestically, don't want to have your own energy company.
Abroad, energy suppliers are a whole interest, and without the protection from above, if they touch the interests of Western energy groups without authorization, they will be jointly attacked by the other side.
It is even possible to lose all your money!
But the profits of this industry are so great, and the risks are so high!
Chen Weidong wants to make Infinity Company stand at the top of the world's capital, how can it not be involved in the energy industry.
And if he wants to do it, he must also take the lion's lead.
It is impossible to make a wedding dress for someone else.
That's what Chen Weidong thinks.
But in May this year, Chen Weidong saw a new signal, a familiar signal: "Private individuals can invest in the construction of small hydropower, thermal power stations and other businesses, and the electricity produced will be purchased by the government." ”
This means that the above-mentioned energy construction field has been opened to the people to a limited extent in the case of dispatching power distribution.
He is not the only one who sees this signal, but also countless businessmen in China who are looking for investment opportunities.
In the south, taking advantage of abundant hydropower resources, a large number of small hydropower stations began to be built.
Thermal power stations in the north and wind power stations in the outer grasslands have set off a wave of construction of small and medium-sized power stations across the country.
What is the most profitable in the twenty-first century?
It has to be energy!
Everyone saw this, and there was no opening for this before.
But now, now that private investment in the construction of power stations has been allowed, will it be far from becoming the Rockefeller of the future?
In this case, Lin Zeju knocked on the door of his office and placed the stack of resources he had collected on Chen Wei's desk.
"Ah Wei, I think the technology that the optoelectronic laboratory has prepared for so long can be taken out!"
"This field is completely accessible to us, and it can be entered, and it must be entered, you should know better than me, mastering energy is equivalent to mastering everything!"
Chen Weidong silently looked at the pile of information brought to him by Lin Zeju, but did not speak.
He hesitated.
Infinity's current energy technology should be said to have achieved a similar level of development as abroad.
The products made in the laboratory may be slightly improved due to the use of automated assembly lines.
But this industry has formed an intertwined global interest group.
Infinity's products are not conventional energy sources, but new energy sources.
This inevitably leads to a fierce collision with established energy suppliers.
The interests are related, and no one will show mercy.
Once a scramble breaks out, it will inevitably end with the complete fall of the other side.
He spent an afternoon reading the relevant materials brought by Lin Zeju.
Subsequently, he picked up the opinion report written by Lin Zeju himself, and looked at it line by line.
They Yellow River Group, with more than 500 subordinate companies, has rich experience in the layout of the energy field.
Even, the energy sector has always been one of the focuses of Lin Jiacheng's investment.
They not only acquired "Xiangjiang Electric Lamp", whose main business is coal power generation.
In the mid-80s, when oil prices plummeted, he invested 3.2 billion Hong Kong dollars in the Canadian energy company, Husky Petroleum Company, and obtained a 52% stake.
The following year, another Canadian oil company was acquired for C$375 million.
Since then, Lin Jiacheng has incorporated the upstream and downstream businesses of natural gas and oil into his energy empire.
Chen Weidong has to admire, this old man's vision is too vicious, and he knows that energy is something that human beings can't live without, even far more than real estate.
Moreover, he also knows that when the real estate was gradually sluggish in later generations, Lin Jiacheng had already replaced a large number of assets a few years in advance and laid out European energy, infrastructure and other projects.
At that time, many people in China laughed at him, saying that Lin Jiacheng had lost a lot.
As a result, after the energy crisis in Europe, the prices of natural gas and electricity skyrocketed several times, and they made a lot of money!