The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 1026 Strategic Petroleum Reserve
After Liu Tao developed the anti-stealth radar, he left the radar factory.

After returning to Panshan Group, Liu Tao formed a joint inspection team and went out to inspect the strategic reserve oil depot of China National Petroleum Corporation.

After so many years of construction, the strategic reserve oil depots of China National Petroleum Corporation can store a total of 15 billion barrels of oil, equivalent to 2.05 million tons, which can be activated to balance oil prices when necessary and to respond to emergencies.

Strategic Petroleum Reserves, which are a means of responding to short-term oil supply shocks.

This system originated in the 70s, during the Middle East War. OPEC oil-producing countries were dissatisfied with the support of Western developed countries for Israel and began an oil embargo, which caused panic in developed countries. So they joined forces to establish the International Energy Agency to respond to the crisis through oil reserves.

The International Energy Agency requires its member countries to stockpile more than 90 days of oil.

Of course, there are not many countries that can meet this standard.

Strategic oil reserves serve the country's energy security, ensuring an uninterrupted supply of national oil in times of war or natural disasters, and at the same time can help stabilize abnormal fluctuations in domestic oil prices.

In the past, the United States had the richest strategic petroleum reserves.

But now, it is China.

In the 80s, China was still an oil exporter and did not have a strong sense of crisis about shortages or interruptions in oil supply. The proposal to establish a strategic oil reserve was not taken seriously.

It took Panshan Group a lot of money for China Petroleum Group to establish a strategic oil reserve. After more than ten years of uninterrupted construction, the strategic oil reserves of China Petroleum Group Corporation have reached 15 billion barrels.

In recent years, China National Petroleum Corporation has continuously imported oil from the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. In addition to its own oil, the rest goes into the strategic oil reserves.

Prior to this, China National Petroleum Corporation inspected its strategic oil reserves every two years.

As the storm is about to come, Liu Tao will strengthen the inspection of strategic oil reserves.

Even now, he never speculates on the evil of human nature with the greatest malice.

Since ancient times, whenever the granary was inspected, it would catch fire.

If he had not attached importance to the inspection of strategic oil reserves from the beginning, a fire might have occurred when the strategic oil reserves were inspected.

For this kind of thing, the most stringent measures must be taken from the very beginning and a high-pressure attitude must be adopted. Once a problem occurs, severe punishment must be imposed, or even execution. Even their families will be implicated, which will truly deter people.

Otherwise, blindly lenient policies will only lead to a large number of rats. After all, one person will bear the blame for the crime and benefit three generations, so many people will take risks.

Things like grain reserves and oil reserves are too easy to breed gray interest chains!

In addition to the severe punishment mechanism, when Liu Tao established the national oil reserve, he used modern electronic technology to develop a system with functions such as real-time detection of changes in oil conditions during oil storage, analysis and prediction of oil condition data, and early warning and forecast of abnormal oil conditions, thereby providing technical guarantees and scientific basis for scientific and safe oil storage.

But even so, inspection teams still need to be formed regularly to check one by one.

Even so, every year there are still people who take risks and fall for huge profits.

Hundreds of people were sentenced to heavy penalties and hundreds were shot. Even the management of China Petroleum Group was organized to personally go to the scene of the shooting, and the video of the shooting was also reported within Panshan Group to deter people.

As time entered 2001, Liu Tao had already begun to make some preparations.

Strategic reserves of petroleum, strategic reserves of edible oil, strategic reserves of grain, etc. are all being inspected.

Liu Tao even went to the Red River Delta and Cambodia in person to inspect these areas, as these are major granaries and are related to food security.

The rice bowl must always be firmly in the hands of the people, and we must ensure that even in the most unfavorable circumstances, China can be self-sufficient in food.

The largest source of China's grain imports is Southeast Asia, followed by the United States, Brazil, Argentina, and then there are Da Mao and Er Mao!
A large amount of grain is imported every year to improve the food on the Chinese people's tables.

With the implementation of a series of water conservancy projects on the Red River, Mekong River, Chao Phraya River, Salween River and Irrawaddy River, not only have shipping conditions improved, but irrigation conditions have also improved, flood control and waterlogging resistance have been enhanced, and the development and utilization of water resources have been strengthened. As hydropower can be supplied outside of Southeast Asia, the grain production here has also increased significantly, and a large amount of grain can be exported every year.

Part of the grain exports from Southeast Asia are exported to China, and part are exported to the Middle East.

Thailand, Cambodia and other countries are major grain producing countries, and are also major grain exporters.

In addition to grain, China is also a major fruit exporter. Large quantities of fruits are exported all over the world, especially to China.

Take durian for example. It is very popular among Chinese people. Tens of millions of durian are imported every year. Chinese people eat 91% of the world's durian. Durian can also be made into durian pizza, durian cake, etc. China is changing durian with the attitude of a foodie empire.

Durian is just one of the representative fruits. There are also a large number of other tropical fruits, such as bananas, coconuts, mangosteens, mangoes, etc., which are exported to China in large quantities.

In the future, such imports will only increase and not decrease.

Just as Liu Tao was carrying out his inspection, a major event occurred. The International Space Station welcomed the first group of long-term astronauts, marking the official operation of the space station.

When talking about the International Space Station, we have to talk about China's pain. China has thought about joining the construction of the International Space Station, but even if China wanted to join with money, it was rejected because they did not want China to learn space station-related technologies.

This also shattered the naive ideas of many people and forced China to rely on its own efforts to carry out space station research.

Liu Tao felt complicated as he watched the news. The International Space Station represents the highest level of world science and technology and is the crystallization of human wisdom. No matter how it is evaluated, it is not an exaggeration.

Unfortunately, due to the selfishness of a certain country, the International Space Station has been tainted with political atmosphere from the very beginning, and this political atmosphere will become more and more serious in the future.

But some will regret it in the future, because facts will prove that China can carry out space exploration on its own, and not only can it do it, but it can also do it better.

The Chinese people are always unyielding in their bones. The more you want to suppress the Chinese people, the more obvious their unyielding nature becomes.

Soon, China's space feast will begin.

China will have manned space flight, space station, lunar exploration and even manned lunar landing, and will realize them one by one.

After so many years of accumulation, China has accumulated enough national strength!
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