A Research On China's Petroleum Security

Petroleum is a critical resource to nation's economy and people's livelihood as well as to the national security. With the high-speed development of national economy, the domestic petroleum resource can't meet the need of the internal market; therefore the amount of imported petroleum is rising. The enhancing independence rises people's stress on the safety of petroleum importation, which has already become a newly-aroused risk affecting China's sustaining development. This thesis studies the security problem of petroleum from the angle of international politics and economics. It starts with security theory on petroleum and analyses China's current situation of petroleum security. It also makes suggestions according to the situation and challenge that China is facing. The details are as followed:This thesis is composed of introduction, main body, conclusion, and reaches to approximately 40,000 words.The first part introduces significant motivation of the paper, the current internal research, framework of study, research method and the creative point of the thesis.Part I of main body is supported by the theory. It illustrates fundamental security theory on petroleum in the aspects of "amounts" and "price". This part serves as the theoretical base of the whole thesis.In the light of the theory, Part II analyses the current security situation of China petroleum, respectively in the aspects of "amounts" and "price". It details the "amount" of China's petroleum reserving, producing, consumption, importing and the importing price; what's more, it probes the relation between these factors and the petroleum security. Based on the analysis, it points out the current problems and challenges.Part III stresses the solutions to the above-mentioned problems. It brings about the suggestion of how to guarantee the "amounts" supply of China's petroleum. On the one hand, we should extend the origins of importation, and carry out the external energy diplomacy actively. At the same time, we try to involve ourselves in a multilateral co-operation; on the other hand, we should activate ourselves to set up the strategic petroleum reservation and make great efforts to build transnational Chinese Petroleum Company as well as to strength the navy force. Of course, it's of the same importance that we should participate in the oil market competition and spare no effort to build a finance strategy system which will support the petroleum marketplace so as to guarantee the "price" security.In the last part, this thesis draws a conclusion that the real security of China's petroleum is the "double security" of amount and price.