The Oil & Gas Cooperation Between China And Central- Asia Based On The Character Of Xinjiang's Industry-structure

Currently, in the rapid development of economy in China, the demand for resources such as oil and gas is increasing greatly. After China became the net oil importer in 1993 and net raw oil importer in 1996, with the increasing consumption of oil domestically, the conflict between slow domestic oil exploration and highly enhanced demand for oil is emerging. In natural oil, although the conflict is not apparent in the short time, with the fastening pace of industrialization and substitution of resources used militarily, the gap between the demand for and supply of natural gas is expanding gradually. Meanwhile, 70% of oil import in China, where oil trade dependent ration is over 50%, comes from Middle East and Africa, where there is of great security concern in oil production and transportation, sounding an alarming bell for China oil security strategy. Therefore, the well-known Middle East-Inner Ocean (里海)-----the second P Bay(波斯湾), with their abundant oil and gas reserve, relatively stable political economy and its proximity with Xinjiang, may become the important import substitution area of oil and gas resources.With above background, this paper, from the perspective of industrial structure of Xinjiang, analyzes the issue of cooperation between China and Middle East in oil and gas resources, including five sections: the first chapter, mainly introducing the background and meaning of this paper, summarizing research results of relative fields both home and broad, meanwhile fixing research target and content and elaborating research logic and method and so forth; the second chapter, after analysis on structural issues such as the widening gap between the demand for and supply of oil, single channel for importing oil from foreign countries, too high oil import dependent ratio, combined with resource strategies in China, problems of resource security faced by China are proposed, and based on this, by the introduction of oil and gas resource reserve in Middle East and its relevant policies, with the present project cooperation between China and Middle East in oil and gas as samples, the significant role of Middle East in China's energy resource security adjustment is demonstrated; the third chapter, based on analysis on Xinjiang's geographical advantages, principal component analysis adopted to analyze competitiveness of 36 industries in Xinjiang, we learn that industries in Xinjiang are labor and resource intensive ones, leaning obviously towards heavy chemical industries, and that oil and chemical industries have an obvious industrial competitive advantage, and with this basis, gray correlation analysis is used to analyze the correlation between Xinjiang's oil and chemical industries and other industries, we obtain the conclusion that through adjusting the function of Xinjiang as the single supply of raw materials for Eastern areas into that of the transmission of energy resource security, the cooperation with Middle East should be made to help adjust national energy security strategy and deepen the function of Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and that with the features of Xinjiang's industrial structure, by developing advantageous industries and their upstream and downstream industries, economy in Xinjiang should be developed and become a new economic pole of China through resource industries, the analysis on the necessity of energy cooperation being translated from traditional win-win national and regional organizations into reciprocally all-win national, local and regional organizations; the fourth chapter, from three factors of international competition, domestic strength and local security, analyzing such issues as the game among big nations faced by China and Middle East in the cooperation, level of domestic government's support, deficiencies in domestic enterprise competitiveness, terrorism in Middle East and so on. The fifth chapter, combined with the conclusions from chapter three and four, to realize reciprocal all-win national, local and regional organizations, proposing the strategic suggestion that nations cooperation with provincial governments, large-size state-owned enterprises go hand in hand with local advantageous enterprises.The meaning of this research lies in that it analyzes, from a new perspective of features of industrial structure in Xinjiang, the cooperation of international energy resources, where we should recognize features of local industrial structure, this not only relieving national security issue to a certain extent, but also promoting effectively local economic growth. In the process of analysis, principal component analysis and gray correlation analysis are combined to more comprehensively and accurately analyze the features of industrial structure in Xinjiang, and according to this, how to maximize national and local benefits in the oil and gas resources cooperation between China and Middle East is proposed: the traditional positioning that is oriented towards passive cooperation based on national energy resource strategic adjustment and Shanghai Cooperation Organization, by altering the past single supple of raw materials for Eastern areas without harming the traditional basis, should be integrated into one that is oriented towards active cooperation based on oil and gas resources cooperation between China and Middle East in order to optimize its industrial structure, reaching the result of reciprocal all-win national, local and regional organizations.