Beiyang reactionaries

The secret competition between China and the Soviet Union in European and American countries was very fierce, and even loan projects began to compete.Duan Xun pays attention to the Soviet Union all the time.

The Soviet Union was very ambitious in 1930, but in the end the situation was very unfavorable.The Soviet Union's original plan was to import $1930 million in machinery and equipment in 6.But in the end, the cost of importing machinery and equipment was less than US$5 million due to insufficient foreign exchange.Moreover, the price of machinery and equipment is much higher than they estimated.The result was that in 1930 the USSR imported a quarter less machinery than they had planned.

After entering 1931, this situation became even more obvious.

The foreign exchange of the Soviet Union was seriously insufficient.For foreign exchange, the Soviet Union continued to increase their food exports and increase their gold mining to make up for the lack of foreign exchange.

"This time we signed a loan agreement with the five-nation bank consortium, and the Soviet Union only signed a loan agreement with the British Dutch Bank for a total of 1500 million pounds."

"kindness."

Duan Xun was overjoyed.

Duan Xun is happy to suppress the Soviet Union's First Five-Year Plan vigorously, even if it is a bit "harmful to others but not to himself".Because in the short term, China also has some economic losses.But in other respects, suppressing the Soviet Union was of great benefit to China.

Originally, China was only planning to lend about 13 billion U.S. dollars in the Second Five-Year Plan, but in order to suppress Soviet loans, China increased the loan amount instead.

In the Second Five-Year Plan, about US$20 billion to US$25 billion in loans will be prepared.In this way, if the Soviet Union wants to borrow money, their financing costs will increase greatly.

"What's next?"

"It's a report from the Petroleum Corps."

"It's a report from the Petroleum Corps."

Liang Huankui continued to report.

The Petroleum Corps is subordinate to the Construction Corps in terms of organizational system, and its organizational relationship is also in the Construction Corps.But because of the particularity of the Petroleum Corps, he also accepts business guidance from the Ministry of Energy Industry and the Ministry of Chemical Industry.Just like the Agricultural Construction Corps, although they belong to the Construction Corps, they also accept the guidance of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Food Bureau.Therefore, the situation of the Petroleum Corps will be reported to the Construction Corps and the Ministry of Industry at the same time.

Petroleum has gradually become one of the main energy sources in the world.

Of course, so far, the world's main energy source is still coal.In the world's energy structure, coal still accounts for about 70%.

This is even more so in China.

In China's current energy structure, coal accounts for more than 90%.Coal has contributed a lot to the development of China's industry.Not to mention now, even in the next 50 years, coal will still be China's largest energy source.Of course, this is the case now, but with the importance of oil, the world's energy structure has begun to change.The importance of oil was slowly revealed.

Therefore, the Petroleum Corps has become very special.

"The oil field discovered in the Tacheng area of ​​the Jungar Basin had a trial production of more than 1.7 tons of crude oil last year. And after two years of exploration, it was initially determined that this is a large oil field with oil reserves of more than [-] million tons. Among the oilfields in China, it is second only to Daqing Oilfield. The Petroleum Corps is planning to mobilize a large number of equipment to enter here and build an oil base here."

"Oil base?"

"Yes. From the reports we have received, the oil reserves here are astonishing, and the oil fields here are not difficult to exploit, and there are no technical problems. The biggest problem in this place is that the traffic conditions are not very good. To build an oil field The base needs to improve the local transportation. If the local transportation can be improved quickly, then there will be no difficulty in building an oil base."

Duan Xun nodded slightly.

In recent years, in addition to focusing on the construction of Daqing Oilfield, Yumen Oilfield, and Yanchang Oilfield, the Petroleum Corps has also formed exploration teams to conduct exploration across the country.However, the number of exploration teams is limited, so they can only carry out key exploration.As with the previous plan, it was mainly to explore those basins.

The two most important places here are the Sichuan Basin and the Xinjiang Basin.

However, since the cooperation with Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, exploration in the Sichuan Basin has been temporarily suspended.The energy of the oil exploration team is mainly focused on the Xinjiang Basin.Among the Xinjiang basins, the Jungar Basin is the top priority.

Exploration in the Zhungeer Basin was established a few years ago. When the Petroleum Corps was established, there was a dedicated oil exploration team in the Zhungeer Basin.If it weren't for the major oil battles in the past few years, it would have been mainly launched in the Songliao Basin, mainly for the construction of the Daqing Oilfield.Otherwise, the main exploration place of the Petroleum Corps will be in Xinjiang.

Because many basins there are very consistent with the "marine oil generation" theory.Although the Daqing Oilfield was discovered, the theory of "marine oil generation" is still the mainstream in the world at present, and the basins in Xinjiang are very consistent with this theory.Compared with "terrestrial oil generation", "marine oil generation" is more perfect in theory.

Therefore, there has always been an exploration team from the Petroleum Corps in the Jungar Basin.And not only because it conforms to the main features of the "marine oil generation" theory, but more importantly, there have been records about oil here long ago.Because of the limited number of exploration teams, it was not until the end of 1929 that the exploration team discovered oil here.It took a full two years.

After the discovery of oil, a large number of personnel from the Petroleum Corps entered here last year, and a large number of oil extraction equipment also entered to start trial production.Last year's annual output was 1.7 tons.

Of course, the more important thing is that there is abundant oil here.It has been almost two years since the exploration team discovered oil, and they have made their own estimates of the oil reserves here.

As a result, the oil reserves here exceed [-] million tons.

Therefore, the Petroleum Corps decided to build an oil base here, which would be second only to the Daqing Oilfield.But it is not so easy to build an oil base.A large number of drilling equipment, oil production equipment, and oil refining equipment are required to enter here.Just like many coal cities in China, after the discovery of oil, it will become an oil city.

A real big oil field, the oil corps is very happy to find such a big oil field.However, Duan Xun knew that the reserves of the oil field discovered in the Jungar Basin should far exceed the current exploration data.Because Duan Xun understands that after entering the 21st century, Xinjiang is still a major energy province in China.Xinjiang provides the country with a large amount of energy, including a large amount of oil and natural gas.Therefore, although Duan Xun does not know the specific situation, there should be oil reserves exceeding one billion tons in the Jungar Basin.

"What does the Oil Corps mean?"

"They hope that the Economic and Development Commission will make the construction of an oil base in Xinjiang a key construction project in the Second Five-Year Plan."

"How does the Economic and Development Commission think about it?"

Duan Xun understood what the Petroleum Corps meant.

If only relying on the strength of the Petroleum Corps, it would be difficult or impossible to build an oil base in Xinjiang.After all, the Petroleum Corps was established not long ago, even with the support of the Construction Corps behind it, it will still be short of money and people.

Because the construction of an oil base does not cost a little money.Especially the traffic in Xinjiang is not good. If you want to build a large-scale oil base, you must first catch up with the traffic.Only in this way can a large number of equipment be able to enter, and the extracted oil can be shipped out.

But transportation construction costs the same as the construction of oil bases.The construction of railways and roads requires a huge amount of funds.Just the Construction Corps, they have other tasks, it is impossible to independently build an oil base.

So for now, it can only be done with the full support of the government.

Once approved as a key construction project of the Second Five-Year Plan, the construction of an oil base in the Jungar Basin will receive a large amount of government funding.As well as the support of various government departments and local governments.

"Prime Minister, the Economic and Development Commission thinks it should be agreed. Last year, the annual crude oil output of Daqing Oilfield was 342 million tons, that of Yanchang Oilfield was 27 tons, and that of Yumen Oilfield was 79 tons. Last year, my country's annual output of crude oil was around 14 million tons."

A big oil field is a big oil field, and it is not comparable to some small oil fields.

Although we worked very hard before, the production rate of Yumen Oilfield and Yanchang Oilfield was very slow.The reserves of Yumen Oilfield are not bad, but after ten years of construction, the current output has not exceeded one million tons.

But the big oil fields are completely different.

In other words, when large oil fields are exploited, the output is gradually increasing.It has been less than two years since the Daqing Oilfield was mined.But crude oil production has already exceeded 300 million tons.And now a large number of machinery and equipment are still pouring into Daqing Oilfield, including oil production equipment, oil refining equipment, and oil transportation pipelines are all under construction.The plan of the Petroleum Corps is to make the crude oil production of Daqing Oilfield exceed [-] million tons within five years.

Since the discovery of the Daqing oil field, China's crude oil production has also surged. In 1930, China's crude oil production had already exceeded 400 million tons, which was a leap forward.

"However, these production volumes are only enough to meet our country's needs. Especially starting this year, according to the newly signed trade agreement, my country needs to provide Japan with about 170 million tons of crude oil. In addition, my country's demand for trucks has greatly increased. And the demand for oil products is also increasing, which makes my country's demand for oil higher and higher. Therefore, we need more oil fields and exploit more oil. According to the calculation of the Economic and Development Commission, my country's demand for oil will exceed one thousand in five years [-] tons. Therefore, my country cannot only rely on Daqing Oilfield, Yanchang Oilfield, and Yumen Oilfield.”

With its own oil, China will vigorously develop the automobile industry without any worries.

Especially after China's large investment and construction, the demand for large trucks has increased rapidly.At present, large cities across the country are undergoing large-scale construction, and China's industrial leap forward requires a large amount of raw materials and produces a large amount of industrial products.And these things need to be transported, and there is a great demand for transportation.And this kind of demand forced the government to develop railways and roads, which also required a large number of trucks.According to data from the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, the current economic situation and construction situation in China require more than 40 large trucks nationwide.And this kind of big truck consumes a lot of fuel a year.

Coupled with the development of cars and the future development of China's agricultural machinery industry, China's automobile industry alone will consume more than 600 million tons of oil.In addition to military oil and oil needed by the petrochemical industry, it is certain that the demand for oil will exceed [-] million tons within five years.

And China and Japan signed a trade agreement.

All oil imported by Japan will be provided by China.According to the oil imported by Japan last year, China needs to provide Japan with about 170 million tons of oil this year.Of course, if Japanese industry becomes active, Japan's demand for oil may further increase.When World War II broke out in history, Japan imported nearly 500 million tons of oil every year.Calculated in this way, China's future demand for oil will be very high.

Therefore, for China, oil is still not a surplus energy source.

"Have you made careful calculations? Will it not delay other plans?"

It's easy to say.

But the construction of an oil base is very difficult to do.There are many things to invest in.The Second Five-Year Plan is more chaotic than the First Five-Year Plan.