On The Development Of Modern Petroleum Resource In Northwest China

The northwest area stretches widely .which is the birthplace of the petroleum industryand the important place of oil resource of our country .The three main oil field-Yumen oilfield, Yanchang oil field and Dushanzi oil field all lied in the area.The working people in northwest, in their hard productive practice , early discovered oil field scattered in such area as the plateau north of Shanxi province ,north foot of Qilian Mount, Talimu Basan in Xinjiang Vigur Autonomous Region, about this .historian and scholars through the history have made important recordings. When times goes to 20th century , due to special political and military requirements, the northwest oil industry embrace two opportunities for development, and embarked on it career of modernization, leaving it gradually to be oil production base of our country .One of the two opportunities is at New deal in the end of Qing Dynasty and another in the War of Resistance against Japanese Invasion, in the wave of the development of the northwest area, the petroleum industry greeted its second climax of development and became the base of modern petroleum industry of our country.To be confined to backward economy, the process of oil exploitation went slowly. From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the year 1949,northwest petroleum industry, though experience the weather of development and declination, is still backward and need to be further developed, Even in 1930s and 1940s it was still the case. It behaved as such: the scale is small, equipment is simple, Yielding power is weak, and productive force is small, technique is poor, mechanization is low and modernization is not high.The petroleum industry is the pillar of modern heavy industry, from its birth, it was enshrined with mark of modernization. Modern northwest petroleum industry had a hard and slow development and the case is the decided by the characters of Chinese modernization of its early stage.Meanwhile, the development of northwest petroleum industry is just to meet an urgent need of the war especially in the period of the war of Resistance against Japanese Invasion and therefore it had some limitations.Petroleum is an important source of energy. Since 20th century, with the development of world economy and science and technology. Oil gradually cane to be an important energy. Petroleum industry gained speedy development and plays a decisive role in the world economy. In recent years, seeing worldwide energy crisis, it is predicted that oil in China would be used up in fifty years.. The author, however, holds an opposite idea against to the idea mentioned above. The paper tends to put the development of northwest petroleum industry in the whole special environment of modern northwest at the angle of the trace of petroleum industry's development in northwest, deeply analyzing the bondage of its development, finding out of problems, discovering laws, getting apocalypse and hereto explore the new way of development of northwest oil industry.