China's foreign energy cooperation is getting better

This reporter Jinwei bustling about China and Russia, Kazakhstan and other countries to better energy cooperation.　　As China-Kazakhstan crude oil pipeline and Central Asia gas pipeline play a role, crude oil, natural gas, refined oil and other energy products have become the import of Xinjiang port "main force" for the Urumqi customs in the first three quarters of the net tax revenue breakthrough 8.6 billion yuan under the "contribution". Reporter recently learned from Urumqi customs, the first three quarters of this year, Urumqi customs revenue net warehousing 8.608 billion yuan, an increase of 62.66%, a record high, more than last year's total tax revenue, the annual tax revenue is expected to reach 10 billion yuan.　　Among them, customs net warehousing 271 million yuan, an increase of 6.42%, import tax net warehousing 8.337 billion yuan, an increase of 65.49%. "Now China-Kazakhstan crude oil pipeline and Central Asia gas pipeline are operating, crude oil, natural gas and other energy products are customs tax payers."　　Urumqi Customs office staff said that this year Alataw Shankou Port pipeline crude oil in the average monthly output of 800,000 tons, coupled with the Central Asian natural gas pipeline transportation of natural gas continues to rise steadily, the Xinjiang port Import and export freight volume growth steadily. In addition, the reporter learned from the Harbin customs, this January-August, Heilongjiang province imported 213,000 tons of raw coal, the same period last year, an increase of 93.1%; the average import price is 96.9 USD/ton, down 2.6%.　　Among them, since the Russian Federation imports 100,000 tons, an increase of 39.2%, accounting for the same period of the province's coal imports of 46.9%. It is understood that last year China's first coal export from the big Country into a net importer of raw coal.　　Heilongjiang as China's rich coal resources, but also began to import coal, and Heilongjiang adjacent to Russia is not only regarded as a major base for the import of raw coal in Heilongjiang, at the same time, it has become an important basis for Sino-Russian coal cooperation. Sino-Russian oil pipeline dust has just settled on the occasion, the Sino-Russian coal cooperation as soon as possible, has become the Sino-Russian cooperation under a hot spot.　　Industry insiders believe that China-Russia energy cooperation in another theme, with the implementation of the Sino-Russian crude oil cooperation project to another important energy-China-Russia coal cooperation will again arouse the attention of the industry.　　The Sino-Russian Coal Cooperation agreement signed in Bragovisensk, Russia's Far East city, formally opened the prelude to cooperation between the two countries. The agreement stipulates that China will import at least 15 million tonnes of coal from Russia each year over the next 5 years, and that the amount of coal to be imported will increase to 20 million tonnes in 20 years.　　China provided Russia with a total of 6 billion U.S. dollars of loans to jointly develop the Russian Far East Amur (Heilongjiang) coal resources, and help Russia to build railways, highways and other coal transport routes, the purchase of mineral mining equipment. Experts believe that the coal cooperation between China and Russia is based on the cooperation between the two countries in the field of energy, the cooperation between China and Russia in oil and electric power has stabilized, the mode of loan-exchanging resources is becoming more and more mature, and the mutual political trust between the two countries is further deepened.Is rightly true and can bring benefits to both countries on the basis of complementarity of demand.　　It is understood that Russia is a large coal, coal reserves are extremely rich, its proven recoverable reserves in China and the United States, ranked third in the world. But although has the abundant coal resources, but China's energy structure single reality, causes China coal resources also to face imports. China's coal imports have long been the main source of imports from Australia, Indonesia and Vietnam, and the issue of coal import diversification is imminent for China. China has become a net coal importer since 2009, with imports exceeding 120 million tonnes, which undoubtedly provides significant business opportunities for the rich coal resources of Russia's Far East.　　China imported more than 12 million tonnes of coal from Russia throughout 2009, more than 10 times more than 1 million tonnes in the previous year. 75% of Russia's coal reserves are located in Asia, but the region's coal has not been exploited on a large scale.　　Moreover, the development of the coal industry in Russia has lagged behind in recent years, which requires a large amount of capital injection. Russia's Far East and the northeast of China, large-scale development of the Russian Far East of the coal resources, for China to save transport costs, for Russia, can speed up the economic development of the Far East region. Data show that in 2009, China imported coal from Russia, the price of 87 U.S. dollars per ton, the same period from Australia to import a ton of 111 U.S. dollars. In this case, Russia to strengthen the East-west strategy, the choice of cooperation with China, not only to promote the overall development of the Russian coal industry, but also for the quiet years of the Russian Far East economic development to inject new vitality. (25A1)