.7 inspected the drilling of Zong on the offshore drilling at Fan Xin. Cheng took a carrier-based helicopter and returned late... Ganglan, there was a large number of people making trouble below. It seemed that there were police cars and police working on the scene, so he ordered the driver to lower the helicopter and see what happened.

Wu Fukuan, the governor of Donghai Province, said with some concern, "It is not safe to reduce the flight altitude for a long time."

Fan Heng replied, "It's okay, I often fly low altitude when I was on the rock. The advantage of helicopters is that they are convenient. You can check the on-site situation at any time, but the special plane will not be able to do it."

The driver lowered the altitude according to Fan Heng's request, and then he saw clearly the situation here. It turned out that there were about two or three hundred people gathered near a private gas station, holding sticks, and about fifty policemen drove more than a dozen police cars to block the middle to avoid the two sides' violent conflict.

"Go and find out what's going on?" Wu Fukuan felt a little embarrassed.

Fan Heng finally came to Donghai Province for inspection, but ended up having such a thing. Wu Fukuan felt very uncomfortable, so he asked someone to contact him and see what was going on.

Lei Kaisheng Lixuan contacted the lower house via radio and quickly figured out the situation. It turned out that something happened to a private gas station on the highway between Linzhou City and Haicheng City in Donghai Province, and two groups of people started fighting below.

"What exactly is the reason?" Fan Xin asked.

"I heard it was because of the oil quality problem." The co-pilot replied.

Fan Heng nodded. He understood something in his heart. Looking at the world situation, the collapse of Nasdaq has little impact on the actual impact of China's economy. Instead, it has given the country a clear and unique performance opportunity.

This year is a good east view for China's economy. Driven by the positive news of the upcoming...ization, the macroeconomic prosperity index has risen significantly since the beginning of the year, and the GDP will almost exceed 9 trillion yuan. An increase of eight percentage points over the previous year, and the economic benefits of enterprises have improved.

The most surprising and exciting scene is that the state-owned enterprises, which have always been sluggish, performed the most eye-catching. Their number has been greatly reduced, but their efficiency has increased rapidly. The profits of more than 200 billion yuan have increased slightly year-on-year by 140%, setting a record for profits since the 1990s.

All of this is of course brought about by the strategic adjustment of "national retreat and private advancement".

This reform, which began more than two years ago, has been underway in a firm and chaotic state. Since the central government has not issued a specific plan for clear property rights reform, the privatization experiments in various places have shown their own magical powers.

In those areas where state-owned assets monopoly, changes are also in progress, but the ways they are shown are different.

Overall, there are roughly three changes. First, the large-scale overall maritime component listing. China Telecom, China Unicom, China Petroleum and others have decided to list in New York or Hong Kong one after another. The always conservative state-owned companies are collectively entering the market. It is not only an ordinary overseas financing issue, but also a huge determination and painful choice for active change.

The second is to break the monopoly and strengthen the competition to split and reorganize. Amid the accusations of the world against telecommunications and other industries, the oligarchs quietly raised their scalpels to themselves. China Telecom will be divided into five, China Petroleum and Petrochemical will be separated again, China Civil Aviation plans to reorganize, China 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.

Third, the entrepreneurial group of state-owned companies has surfaced and has begun to show its true nature. As the direct operator of the two major changes in listing and restructuring, this group that has always been low-key and stable is pushed to the forefront, and their entrepreneurial potential has been stimulated and demonstrated unprecedentedly.

International media have also observed this change, and the Asia Wall Street Journal believes in a review that these new actions to disrupt enterprises indicate that China's economic model is undergoing major changes.

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

At the beginning of this year, the most popular product in the country was gas stations. In some places, its prices have soared by three or four times. Gas stations are popular not because they are particularly profitable, but because someone is robbing them.

The oil industry is a pillar industry of the national economy. According to the rules of...Mainland, once China joins the organization, it will reduce the import tariffs on refined oil to 6% within one or two years, and open retail within three years. The bulk is liberalized within five years.

In order to cope with this inevitable competitive situation, China Petroleum and Petrochemical Industry, which has been exclusively discontinued since the previous year, has undergone a major restructuring and established two major group companies, China Petroleum and Sinopec.

According to the plan at that time, the two major enterprises divided the total oil field resources and the assets of the refining enterprise, and implemented a river-drawing and governance based on the Yangtze River as the boundary.

This solution seems to have formed an integrated upstream and downstream enterprise structure and avoids face-to-face business competition.

After the two major oil groups were formed, they immediately started a competition for gas stations. In the eyes of their decision-makers, as long as they can take all gas stations into their pockets before the multinational oil giants break into China, they will naturally form a Maginot line of defense, at least in the future, with no room for negotiations.

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At the beginning of this year, Sinopec was the first to announce that it would spend 25 billion yuan to acquire gas stations within five years. CNPC immediately proposed a completely similar acquisition plan, but in actual operations, the actual investment exceeded this budget.

According to the principle of Jiang Erzhu, the two major enterprises should acquire them on their respective territories, but this agreement was quickly broken, and gas stations across the country suddenly became the targets of looting.

At present, the cost of building a gas station in coastal cities with economical strength ranges from about 600,000 to 1 million yuan. However, in the acquisition war, the sale price has risen due to the bidding of the two giants, and some popular sites have risen three to four times within a year.

According to the Southern Weekend, the two companies snatched up prices at any cost. In Sichuan, the cost of acquiring a gas station ranges from about 2 million to 8 million yuan, while in deeper terms, Guangzhou generally ranges from 10 million to 15 million yuan.

In Shishi City, Fujian Province, Sinopec and PetroChina competed for more than a dozen rounds for a medium-sized gas station with a superior geographical location.

Genji Sinopec recently announced data that more than 9,000 new gas stations will be added nationwide this year, which means that nearly 30 are acquired every day, bringing the total number of gas stations of the entire group to more than 25,000. CNPC said with confidence that more than 1,500 new gas stations will be added this year. The total number of gas stations will reach more than 1,100.

There are currently about 80,000 gas stations nationwide, of which there are quite a few private gas stations. These private gas stations have become the hunting targets of the two major companies. Guided by various almost mysterious industry policies, private gas stations are facing a survival crisis, and with the existence of various uncertainties, so this acquisition of the two major oil companies has actually become their most rare opportunity. Therefore, in a short period of time, almost all private capital in gas stations has withdrawn.

In addition to taking the existing gas stations into account, CNPC and Sinopec have also implemented two major monopoly strategies in the name of national interests. First, they have obtained the monopoly qualification for new stations. The "Notice on Strictly Controlling the Issues of New Gas Stations" issued by the State Economic and Trade Commission and three other ministries and commissions, which clearly stipulate that in the future, the newly built gas stations in various places will be unified by Sinopec and Sinopec.

This strict control policy also aroused dissatisfaction among local governments. Just twenty days after the notice, Jiaxing City, Xijiang Province issued a government approval to approve the construction of 24 new gas stations in the local area, of which 18 were built by investors outside the two major groups.

This local approval immediately caused a rebound from the oil authorities, causing a quarrel of no small matter.

The media's analysis was a sharp idea: before the notice from the Economic and Trade Commission, all regions had the authority to build gas stations, and after "strict control", tax revenue mainly belonged to the central government, and local governments lacked a piece of financial resources, so there would naturally be a rebound.

The second is to carry out large-scale and mandatory inclusion and exclusion of private oil fields.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, small private capital had penetrated into the oil extraction field. In Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Jilin and other places, private owners engaged in the oil extraction industry through joint operations and contracting.

These oil fields are small oil wells with high cost and small scale, and some are even abandoned oil wells that are abandoned but not produced by state-owned oil fields. The existence of these oil wells has seriously threatened the profits of the two major oil companies. The existence of these private owners is considered to be the source of disrupting the order of the oil market and producing environmental pollution. Therefore, the inclusion and rectification of these private oil wells has become a strategic measure.

A very telling example was disclosed in the media.

Yiqicrek Oilfield, located in Kuqa County, Xinjiang, is an abandoned whole-installed oil field in China. Since 1958, after nearly 30 years of mining, nearly 300 wells have been drilled, and a total of more than 900,000 tons of crude oil has been produced. Due to the gradual decrease in crude oil production in the oil field and it is almost exhausted, it was determined by the Tarim Oilfield Branch of the PetroChina Tarim Oilfield and classified as a waste oil well. The year before last, PetroChina withdrew from Yiqicrek Oilfield. Soon, a private enterprise named Jinhe entered the oil field. It reached a cooperation intention with the local government. It can produce about 40,000 tons of oil every year after the production of oil in nearly 300 waste oil wells.

Jinhe produced oil in the waste oil well, which made CNPC quite unhappy. The Tarim Oilfield Branch repeatedly reported to the autonomous region government that it sued the Kuche County Government and Jinhe Company for the cooperation of the oil and gas resource development acts beyond its authority, which violated the Mineral Resources Law and infringed on the prospecting rights of CNPC.

Like the gas station construction incident in Jiaxing, the oil company's monopoly on oil fields also caused a rebound in local interests.

Not long ago, PetroChina also submitted a report to the State Economic and Trade Commission, opposing the plan proposed by the Lingxi Provincial Government to reorganize the private oil fields in Lingxi Province within the province. The report said that private and county-level drilling and mining companies in Lingxi were randomly engaged in mining, and they colluded with private oil bosses to seize the oil fields under PetroChina with a mining area of ​​more than 10,000 square kilometers. The two sides have had many disputes over the years, causing more than 150 group conflicts, 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 local oil companies with local oil companies as the main body have the ability to reasonably open oil fields.

The report of Lingxi Province also stated that CNPC used the national resource management mechanism and its own convenient conditions to register most of the oil resources in Lingxi area first, and even registered some of the original oil fields in the province to its own name, resulting in idle resources and no substantial opening.

The report also said that without oil, local finances in the northwest of the Ridge will be in trouble again and the people will be unstable.

It is precisely because CNPC and Sinopec not only seized resources between each other, but also seized resources for private enterprises and used their advantage in policy to fight against private enterprises and local enterprises, which has caused a lot of rebounds in various places. The competition scenes seen by Fan Heng and Wu Fukuan on the helicopter today are actually just a strategy to suppress the gas station using the quality of oil products as an excuse.

Fan Heng observed the situation below on the plane. The geographical location of this gas station is indeed very good and has a relatively large scale. In addition, it is not considered a thorn in the eyes by others!

It can be imagined that among the two parties below, there may not be no one from the two major oil companies instigating behind the scenes.

"The food quality of the two major oil companies is really ugly!" Fan Heng said casually.

"The oil prices have risen sharply recently. If the two major oil companies completely cut off the market, we may not even be able to drive cars." Wu Fukuan complained about the embezzlement of the two major oil companies. He had to report a small report to express his dissatisfaction after hearing this.

After all, the market expansion behavior of the two major oil companies has caused a large loss of local tax revenue in Donghai Province, which makes Wu Fukuan feel very distressed and it is impossible for him to have no complaints.

Fan Heng nodded and said, "The river is just a wishful thinking. In fact, when it comes to the market, everything is uncontrollable. Even if you are as close as a brother, you will still look down on the wall, let alone the opponents of disputes of interests? However, the market competition has become agitated, and I really don't know who is wrong?"

After seeing the situation here, Fan Heng decided that after going back, he must cool down the leaders of the two major oil companies, at least let them know to restrain themselves. If this continues, even if the market is monopolized, it will become a big threat.

Forced monopolies formed by administrative orders like PetroChina and Sinopec are obviously more hated than natural monopolies formed by relying on research capabilities and market share like Microsoft.
Chapter completed!