This means that under the framework of regional energy cooperation in Central Asia, all parties involved will be able to share energy security and economic development.
Experts from the Asian Development Bank said that many areas of independent Central Asian countries after the disintegration of the Soviet Union lacked safe and reliable power services, and the power grid system of the Soviet era will be reactivated to obtain more effective power supply. Yao Xianbin, deputy director of the Asian Development Bank's West Asia and Central Asia Bureau, said: "With the cooperation framework platform, countries will communicate more smoothly for common interests."
In essence, energy security includes energy diversification and energy supply diversification. At present, eight countries in the Central Asian regional economic cooperation mechanism are implementing a series of projects around this goal.
The cooperation framework needs to strengthen trust and communication. Hu Hongping, an associate researcher at the Central Asian Institute of Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, said that the economies of Kazakhstan and other countries are highly dependent on energy and related industries. On the one hand, Central Asian countries will strengthen regional energy cooperation with their neighbors; On the other hand, we will also consider diversified energy export channels, actively develop non-energy industries and spread economic risks.
Energy cooperation contains huge business opportunities.
Observers believe that with the development of regional energy cooperation in Central Asia, geological exploration, engineering exploration and exploration of potential oil, natural gas and coal reserves in this region will become the top priority of regional economic cooperation in Central Asia.
The report of the Asian Development Bank pointed out: "All countries have put forward some new energy projects that may be launched." Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Organization has potential new energy sources.
The report believes that many reforms in energy industry and institutional capacity building will bring preferential treatment to more private investment.
A 42-page list of energy projects funded by international financial institutions in Central Asia is listed in the progress report of cooperation projects provided by the Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation Energy Industry Coordination Committee to this ministerial meeting. Yao Xianbin said that the support of international financial institutions for basic projects is more to "pave the way" for the private sector. The private sector will soon become the most important participant in energy projects.
2。 In the past two months, important news about Northeast China has emerged in an endless stream, the most striking of which is that "Northeast China has begun to build an' energy strategic community'". "This is an important step in the strategy of revitalizing Northeast China," said Xu Yongsheng, deputy director of the Energy Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission. "In the future, the state will give more consideration to the energy development and construction layout in Northeast China." This is mainly due to geographical factors. Northeast China has a strong correlation and integration, which is suitable for forming a "chess game".
Of course, there is another important reason: although the northeast is rich in energy, especially coal and oil occupy an important position in the country. But there are structural problems such as fragmentation and industrial convergence. For example, the accumulated proven geological reserves of oil in Heilongjiang Province are 5.67 billion tons, accounting for about a quarter of the whole country, and the remaining recoverable reserves are 568 million tons, accounting for about 23% of the whole country. However, the industrial level is not high, the intensive mining level is low, and the layout is not ideal. Another example is the coal industry in Liaoning, where there are few deep processing projects, the variety resources in some areas are gradually shrinking, and the dependence on foreign countries is constantly improving, which restricts the economic development in Northeast China.
Obviously, all parties hope that through the start of the "Energy Strategic Community", many problems existing in the past energy development in this region can be solved from the macro-control level, and the fetters can be eliminated, so as to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
In fact, the establishment of an "energy strategic community" between regions is not a groundbreaking move in Northeast China. In recent years, due to the rapid economic development and the increasing shortage of energy, some regions have begun to build energy cooperation platforms. According to professionals, at present, the energy regional planning of the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei is also in the pipeline. Wang Yongming, vice governor of Zhejiang Province, recently replied in a related report that "it is suggested to formulate the Yangtze River Delta energy platform as soon as possible". Obviously, energy cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta will be a problem. As early as June this year, the road map for energy cooperation in the Pan-Pearl River Delta has been released. In the 11th Five-Year Plan for Regional Energy Cooperation in Pan-Pearl River Delta, the goal of energy cooperation in Pan-Pearl River Delta is clear: by 20 10, the scale of power transmission from west to east will reach 22.38-24.38 million kilowatts, and that of power transmission from west to east in Guangxi will reach 3.44 million kilowatts. Cooperation in coal production and marketing should also be further strengthened, and the coal production capacity in Guizhou will reach 30-40 million tons; A refined oil transportation network connecting most provinces and regions in the region has been initially formed, and the transportation capacity of the southwest refined oil pipeline has reached about 6.5438+million tons; Power, coal, oil, natural gas and other energy cooperation projects 17.
Whether the Northeast is planning an energy community, or the Yangtze River Delta energy cooperation will be broken, and the earlier "Pan-Pearl River Delta" energy cooperation road map is released, all these prove the fact that the regionalization of energy cooperation has become a trend, and people can vaguely see that a new China energy strategy is emerging on the background map of accelerating energy cooperation in various regions.
A few years ago, people realized the importance of international energy cooperation. The 2004 Boao Forum for Asia Energy Roundtable predicted that the energy demand in Asia would increase by 8- 10% in the first 30 years of the 20th century. Strengthening regional energy cooperation is of great significance to the sustained and rapid development of Asian economy, so China-Japan-ROK energy cooperation has been put on the agenda. In Africa and Latin America, almost all the new ideas for some developing countries to explore energy development are to develop energy cooperation within and between regions. Experience shows that regional energy cooperation can not only adjust the surplus and shortage of energy supply between countries, but also carry out regional energy reserves to ensure the sustainability of energy supply. Today, it remains to be seen how effective the adjustment of Africa's energy strategy is and whether the Latin American energy integration strategy can be realized. However, with the rapid growth of energy demand, there is no doubt about the general trend of regional energy cooperation.
Recently, however, the international energy cooperation system has encountered new challenges. In the turbulent situation in the Middle East, on August 6th, BP announced that it would stop crude oil production in an oil field in Alaska, USA, which led to a sharp rise in crude oil prices in the international market on August 7th. September crude oil futures on the London International Petroleum Exchange reached $77.68 a barrel. Obviously, this geopolitical turmoil and contingency factors will continue to appear.