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Section 13 Monopoly

The troubles brought by Liu Daoyuan only plagued Zhao Guodong for a short time. He felt more and more that the huge opportunities he brought to him by working in the Development and Reform Commission. The things he had to come into contact with were unimaginable in the local area. This training experience can be said to be the most precious wealth in his future life.

"Ouyang, what are the arrangements after ten o'clock?" Zhao Guodong asked with his pen put down his hand and raised his voice.

Ouyang Jinhua walked in quickly, "Fifteen minutes later, Director Zeng and you will meet with Zhu Yumin, President of China Unicom Oil Group, Gao Jinchuan, Executive Vice President of Guoquan Energy Mining Investment Group, Wu Youde, President of Tianhua Group, and Huang Jinsheng, Senior President of Bami Resources, and his party to listen to their reports on the Indonesian Donggu Natural Gas Project."

"Oh? I almost forgot." Zhao Guodong patted his head, and he forgot a little.

Fangziquan called and said that this time he would not meet him in his official capacity. He has been in Indonesia for a while and cannot escape and is busy working for the Dongji-Sanoro LNG project.

The final battle has come to an end in December. Guoquan Energy and Mining Investment Group joined forces with five corporate consortiums, including Indonesian Bami Resources, China United Oil, Indonesian Petroleum Corporation and Tianhua Group, to defeat the consortium formed by Mitsubishi Commercial and Indonesian Meko, and obtained the Sanoro LNG project in Dongji. The five companies will invest US$2.1 billion to establish an annual liquefied natural gas plant on Sulawesi Island.

The key to winning is to bring Indonesian National Petroleum Corporation in. In this way, Indonesian National Petroleum Corporation and Bami Resources Corporation have added to the domestic influence and increased dramatically. In addition, China's China United Oil Corporation is one of the four domestic oil giants, while Guoquan Energy Mining Investment Group is the most influential private energy mining group in China, and Tianhua Group is a strong private oil and gas wholesale and retail enterprise in China. Several companies joined forces to finally win this project from the powerful Mitsubishi Commercial, Meike Energy.

This project is regarded as a perfect victory for China and *** in the Indonesian energy market, which greatly encouraged the confidence of the domestic energy industry to go global.

The five enterprise consortium fully demonstrated their respective advantages to the Indonesian Ministry of Energy. Indonesian State Oil Company represents Indonesia's state-owned capital, while Bami Resources Company is one of the most powerful energy companies in Indonesia. Zoomlion is one of the four giants in China's domestic energy industry, with rich overseas investment and exploration and mining experience. Guoquan Energy has long been involved in Indonesia's domestic coal mining industry. It has a wide range of commercial resources and financing channels in Indonesia, mainland China and Hong Kong, China. Tianhua Group is the largest private oil and natural gas comprehensive enterprise in China. Last year, it acquired a large-scale local refining and chemical enterprise in Anyuan Province in Tongcheng, Anyuan, and invested in the expansion of the oil terminal, actively preparing for a large-scale entry into the wholesale and retail of refined oil in the Yangtze River Basin.

The talks went smoothly. China Unicom introduced the basic situation of the Dongji-Sanoro project and the content of the draft agreement. The proportion of the five companies in this project is not consistent. The proportion of the two Indonesian companies reached 39%, China Unicom accounted for 25%, Guoquan Energy accounted for 12%, and Tianhua Group accounted for 24%, and the five parties contributed proportionally. The sales were mainly managed by China Unicom and Tianhua Group. Tianhua Group intends to import liquefied gas into Hubei Province and Anyuan, while China Unicom mainly sold its shares to Guangdong and Fujian provinces.

After the talks ended, Zhao Guodong took his group to the elevator door on behalf of Zeng Quanjun. Zhao Guodong noticed that Wu Youde, the boss of Tianhua Group, seemed to be a little frowning, and he wanted to speak but stopped when entering the elevator.

Zhao Guodong thought about something.

"Director Zhao, just now, President Wu, the CEO of Tianhua Group, hoped that I would leave one of your phone number for him." Ouyang Jinhua followed Zhao Guodong into the office and said carefully.

"Oh?" Zhao Guodong refused to comment, "Did you give it to him?"

"I gave him your office phone number." Ouyang Jinhua replied carefully: "I feel like he has something to worry about and may look for you."

"Well, I understand." Zhao Guodong nodded. Wu Youde was the first private enterprise in the energy field. It was not that his assets were amazing, but that he was the first private enterprise to dare to question the monopoly position of the four giants of domestic petrochemical. As early as two years ago, Tianhua Group joined forces with many private refining and refined oil management companies in various places to establish a private petrochemical industry association, and he served as the president.

His Tianhua Group is the largest private enterprise in Tongcheng, engaged in four major industries: coal mining, fine chemical industry, agricultural product processing and refined oil management. It is also the largest shareholder and controlling party of Modern Agricultural Science, the first listed enterprise in Tongcheng City.

Zhao Guodong is aware of some of Wu Youde's concerns. According to the WTO agreement, the country will open up its wholesale rights for crude oil and refined oil. Foreign multinational energy companies have begun to enter the country in large quantities. Tianhua Group has had a bad relationship with Sinopec and Sinopec in the past one or two years, and has been greatly curbed in the channels for obtaining oil products. At present, it is only relying on some channels of CNOOC to survive. The reason why it has broken its boats and joined the army led by CNOOC to go overseas is not because it has the intention to closer relations with CNOOC.

However, he still underestimated the power of the two major oil giants who belonged to the same mother-in-law, the Ministry of Energy. It is still hard to say whether he can take this opportunity to get closer to China Unicom. At least as far as Zhao Guodong knows, the Ministry of Energy and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission have already put pressure on the Ministry of Commerce to tighten the domestic operating rights and import rights of crude oil and refined oil. Although it may not be targeted at Tianhua Group, Tianhua Group is definitely one of the thorns in the side.

On this issue, Zhao Guodong was also hesitant. Fangziquan mentioned this matter to himself, but this is not the jurisdiction of the National Development and Reform Commission, but it belongs to the Ministry of Commerce. Just like the negotiation on iron ore imports, it belongs to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Commerce. Although the National Development and Reform Commission is an affiliated party, the opinions of the National Development and Reform Commission are only used as reference for the Ministry of Commerce and cannot play a decisive role.

Ouyang Jinhua noticed that Zhao Guodong's eyes were gloomy and looked far outside the window, but his face was gloomy and sunny. He knew that his boss must be considering an important thing, so he didn't dare to say anything and wanted to withdraw quietly, but Zhao Guodong stopped him: "Ouyang, don't leave quickly."

Ouyang Jinhua was also a little surprised to see that Zhao Guodong seemed to want to make a decision, but he was unable to make up his mind. He had been following this boss for almost a year. Although Zhao Guodong was young, he never delayed his work. Once he made up his mind, he did not hesitate and acted vigorously. For example, on the issue of fertilizer import rights, it caused countless criticisms in the domestic fertilizer industry, and even some situations were directly reflected to the State Council. However, Zhao Guodong was not at all confused and still arranged his work in an orderly manner. Once the pilot was pushed out, the results were immediately effective. The domestic potassium fertilizer price fell in response to the news, and the agricultural departments of all provinces breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ouyang, do you say that the energy industry is completely monopolized in the hands of the country. Is it really because of the needs of national economic security? Does the needs of national economic security require that the energy industry must be firmly grasped in the hands of the country?"

Zhao Guodong suddenly asked this question without any end.

In fact, Ouyang Jinhua also vaguely guessed why Zhao Guodong was hesitating. There was no chance for him to speak about this kind of question, but since Zhao Guodong asked him, he was not good at not answering it.

"Director Zhao, I think it is necessary to take control in the hands of the country. After all, the petrochemical industry is related to the national economy and people's livelihood. If the country loses control over this industry, it will definitely be quite dangerous. The question is whether the control of this country must be achieved through the monopoly of state-owned enterprises. I think this is worth exploring. Moreover, according to the provisions of WTO, my country actually needs to open up to foreign capital on this issue. According to the provisions of the "Guidelines for Refined Oil Business Enterprises", some barrier conditions that are insurmountable for private capital business enterprises are a piece of cake for state-owned giants and multinational enterprises. This is actually a suspicion of suppressing private enterprises." Ouyang Jinhua said slowly.

In fact, Zhao Guodong and Ouyang Jinhua have discussed this issue many times, but they are not as thorough as they are today.

"The Ministry of Commerce has not made any statement on Shell's merger, Unified Petrochemical, which seems to be a dilemma. The domestic people reacted fiercely and had a strong opposition to foreign investment mergers, especially the merger of brand enterprises with certain influence in our country. In fact, I think what we should call for is not the issue of foreign investment mergers and acquisitions of our companies, but also the opportunity for a fair competition environment for foreign investment, private capital and even state-owned assets. On this point, I think we are far from doing enough."

Ouyang Jinhua's words were quite in line with Zhao Guodong's appetite. Regardless of whether the other party intends to please him or not, it is not easy to summarize such a view. Zhao Guodong nodded, "On these issues, the Commission should not be confined to the opinions of the public and keep silent. I think some attitude is better."

Ouyang Jinhua is not easy to talk about this. After all, the topic is too big and the height is too high, so he cannot express his opinions. He asked tentatively: "Then if Mr. Wu calls to see you, you can see..."
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