You Wangang and Zhong Guangbiao were both quite shocked.

On the one hand, the firm statement about Sha Zhengyang will become the mainstream of imported natural gas in China. Now China is connecting the Central Asian gas pipeline with Central Asia, especially Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. It can be said that the general framework has been basically finalized. In the future, China's domestic lack of natural gas should mainly come from the central government, and the subsequent potential is also great. Why did Sha Zhengyang propose that LNG will become the mainstream of imported natural gas, and also mentioned various matters of laying out LNG as soon as possible?

On the other hand, they also have a clear understanding of the prospects of Sha Zhengyang, although he has left the energy industry and has worked locally, but he is still very clear about the prospects of the energy sector, and even some of the strategies he proposed are still very forward-looking.

"Zhengyang, LNG, you are so optimistic. You have to know that although our country's demand for natural gas is a process of continuous increase, on the one hand, the natural gas production in our northwest region is not small, and you also mentioned that shale gas is also being explored and developed. More importantly, Russia and Central Asia have determined that it is the main source of natural gas in our future. From a geographical point of view, the natural gas in these places will basically be imported into China through pipelines, and the source of LNG can only be sea transportation. So in which direction do you think we need to layout? Myanmar, Indonesia, Australia, or the Middle East?"

You Wangang is of course very familiar with the situation in the natural gas field, so he asked the key point directly: "Do you think these overseas regions are the direction of our natural gas field in the future?"

At present, there are no problems with LNG technology and transportation of liquefied natural gas. The key lies in the linkage between cost and crude oil and coal prices, as well as the tendency and support of international and domestic environmental protection policies.

But Sha Zhengyang is very clear that as domestic environmental protection pressure increases day by day in the future, the demand for clean energy will rapidly increase, making liquefied natural gas LNG a must-have quickly, and it has entered the market and will soon become an indispensable part, and its scale and share will also expand rapidly.

This product, which was originally regarded by many as exclusive to developed countries, quickly became a major demand in China during the second decade of the 21st century, and its growth momentum was even dumbfounded by other developed countries.

"Mr. You, Mr. Zhong, it is not something that I, as an outsider, can know, but it is obvious that domestic economic development and people's living needs, especially the demand for clean energy of large and medium-sized cities, will quickly squeeze the foundation of domestic natural gas supply. Even the natural gas supply in Central Asia will be difficult to support in the future. We often underestimate China's domestic economic development needs. Just like when China changed from a crude oil exporter to an importer in 1993, everyone never expected that China's dependence on crude oil demand would grow in such a rapid attitude, and the demand for natural gas in the future will be the same, even more powerful!"

Sha Zhengyang's attitude is very certain, "At present, the liquefied natural gas extraction and exports in the Middle East and North Africa are relatively mature, but there is still a lot of room for development in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Brunei. These regions are also the main source of China's liquefied natural gas LNG in the future. If we can make the first arrangement and seek cooperation opportunities, just like what Changhe Group did in Kazakhstan before, I believe that this will bring extremely generous returns to enterprises in the future and will also bring great support to the country to alleviate the pressure on energy imports."

That's all.

Sha Zhengyang Energy can only talk about this step. He is not an energy expert. His only reliance is memory in his previous life. Even in his previous life, he did not have much in-depth research on the LNG industry. He can only provide some suggestions based on his own vague memory.

But he didn't expect that over the past few years, including the suggestions he made at Changhe Group and the great achievements he had made, did give You Wangang and Zhong Guangbiao great confidence.

Although they will not draw conclusions just because of Sha Zhengyang's words, it is not difficult to conduct targeted special research based on Sinopec and Changhe Group's information network resources. It is actually not difficult to find enough reasons to prove it under the preset results.

Of course, this inference itself is in line with future development trends, so there is no problem.

In short, I even ate this simple dinner for three people for more than two hours, which was very delicious.

The wild fish banquet is of course good, but it tastes more delicious. Not everyone can attend the dinner at this level.

Sha Zhengyang was even very proud. He was able to sit in a big way between the two major energy giants in China and drink and talk about each other without any disadvantage. This special encounter and this honor really requires a few people to compare.

*******

The dinner arranged by Ye Hetai and Guo Yeshan really made Sha Zhengyang dare not accept it. After pushing it for a long time, Sha Zhengyang finally arranged it.

Both of them are their former leaders. No matter how hard Sha Zhengyang can't do such a rude thing, otherwise he would have really broken the rules and lost his character.

"It's impossible to compare. The projects you guys can always invest tens of millions of dollars in every project you can bring in. We are in a miserable situation. If you try our best to get a project worth millions, you have to ask God to worship Buddha and recite Amitabha Buddha." Ye Hetai shook his head repeatedly, picked up the chopsticks in his hand and put them down.

"Teacher Ye, don't belittle yourself. As far as I know, there are many scenic spots from Laifeng to Baoling, right? The conditions in Zizhugou are relatively mature. If they can be developed, I think at least there is still a lot of potential in driving the development of the entire tourism industry."

Sha Zhengyang also knew very well that Wuling could not be compared with Han, which was cruel, but the differences in the situation in different places were there. No matter how great you have, it was impossible for Huawei or UT Starkang to invest and build factories in Wuling. In the short term, the traffic bottleneck in Wuling area cannot be opened up, and infrastructure construction will be difficult to make earth-shaking changes. Therefore, the objective existence of this gap will be long-term, which also determines that the development of Wuling area can only follow their own path.

Perhaps it will take until the Hanyi Expressway is fully completed and the entire expressway from Anxiang through Puchi to Wuling and Yichang is fully completed. This shortcoming that has plagued Wuling area can be filled and the development environment of Wuling area can achieve a qualitative leap.

Before this, the Wuling area could only use local specialties and resources to develop as much as possible based on local reality. Of course, the development of industries like this would also be subject to the improvement of transportation conditions, but it was relatively better.

The tourism industry should be the most suitable direction. Considering that the development of Zizhugou Scenic Area will take time, if it can maintain the same frequency as the construction of Hanyi Expressway, it may attract some powerful companies to invest.

Ye Hetai and Guo Yeshan once also hoped that Dongfanghong Group would take the lead in developing the scenic area resources of Zizhugou, but Sha Zhengyang did not agree too much. Of course, he could not express his opposition openly. In the end, Ning Yuechan and the others even quashed the proposal.

Not entering industries that are not in the main business has become a principle of Oriental Hong Holding Group. Of course, Oriental Hong Investment is not included in this category, but Oriental Hong Investment Company is now mainly based on Internet information and emerging industries, and will not enter industries that are obviously heavy in assets such as tourism resources.

Ye Hetai and Guo Yeshan were both disappointed, but they could understand that after all, companies could not act according to the government's baton. Wuling now lacks sufficient attractiveness to the outside world's capital.

"Zhengyang, you don't need to comfort us. We know our own actual situation. Many of our investment promotion and work can only compare with the progress of the Hanyi Expressway. Every time we go out to attract investment, no matter how much, people just ask one question, is it going to open to the expressway? When will the Hanyi Expressway be opened? Now how much time will it take to get from Wuling to Handu or Yichang, we can only speak silently."

Guo Yeshan was very calm and chewed with the vegetables in his hands: "For the Hanyi Expressway, Commissioner Ye basically goes to the Transportation Department every month. For the number of up and down station entrances of several expressways in our area, it is also a quarrel with the Transportation Department. This is related to the development prospects of a place in the next ten or twenty years. One up and down station entrance can radiate to a development within a radius of dozens of kilometers, but the owner unit has to consider economic benefits. This contradiction exists objectively, and how to convince the other party is also a worrying thing."

"Well, this requires all parties to make the owners realize the development potential of the future region. They may lose money in the early stage, but this loss is worth it. They must see real prospects..." Sha Zhengyang also understood that it is so difficult to be poor and backward in places, and it is even more difficult to start. Ye Hetai is a very experienced leading cadre, but working in a place like Wuling is probably unforgettable for him.

"Zhengyang, people don't say secret words. Today's dinner is just a story, but we have to say something. We think the scale of the fun orchard project of interesting drinks can be considered appropriately expanded, and the progress can be increased. You know that every county in Wuling area is very difficult, especially the people in mountainous areas have few channels to increase their income. Even if there are more than a few townships that can be included in the fun orchard project, it can also drive thousands of people to take this opportunity to find a channel to increase their income at their doorstep. But that little boy, Xiao Ning, is very difficult to talk to."
Chapter completed!