Zou Ming’s petroleum economic management expert

Jinling University was born on October 14, 1913 in Houzhai Town, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province.

From 1933 to 1937, he studied in the Department of Industrial Chemistry of Nanjing Jinling University and received a Bachelor of Science degree.

From 1937 to 1938, he served as an intern at the Fuel Research Laboratory of the Nanjing Central Geological Survey.

From 1938 to 1941, he served as an intern and section chief of the Chongqing Power Oil Plant of the Resources Committee.

From 1941 to 1942, he served as the section chief of the refinery of the Gansu Oil and Mineral Bureau of the Resources Committee.

From 1942 to 1945, he served as the representative of Gansu Oil and Mineral Bureau in the United States. At the same time, he studied at Mobil and Shell Oil Companies in the United States.

From 1945 to 1946, he served as director of the Shanghai Refinery of the Resources Committee.

From 1946 to 1948, he served as director of the China Petroleum Company Office of the Resources Committee and manager of the Shanghai Sales Office.

From 1948 to 1949, he served as associate manager of China Petroleum Corporation and manager of Gansu and Qinghai Branch.

From 1950 to 1952, he served as deputy director of the Northwest Petroleum Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Fuel Industry.

1952-1955: Engineer of the Ministry of Fuel Industry.

From 1955 to 1978, he served as deputy chief engineer and chief engineer of the Supply and Manufacturing Bureau of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry. During this period, from 1960 to 1961, he also served as the deputy commander of the supply headquarters of the Daqing Petroleum Campaign Command; from 1962 to 1964, he also served as the deputy commander of the construction headquarters of the Daqing Refinery.

From 1978 to 1982, he served as consultant to the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry.

From 1982 to 1993, he served as a consultant to China National Offshore Oil Corporation. During this period, he was also a member and deputy chairman of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Petroleum from 1982 to 1987. From 1990 to 1992, he served as a senior advisory committee member of the Department of Energy.

Retired in March 1993.

From 1993 to 1998, he was appointed as a special expert of the Consulting Center of China National Petroleum Corporation. In April 1937, he graduated from the Department of Industrial Chemistry of Nanjing Jinling University (the predecessor of Nanjing University) with a bachelor's degree in science. Due to his excellent academic performance, he was elected as a member of the Fidelius Society (i.e. Golden Key Award) upon graduation. He started working in July and served as an intern at the Fuel Research Laboratory of the Nanjing Central Geological Survey Institute and as an on-duty operator at the Experimental Plant for Refining Light Oil from Vegetable Oil. Soon after the Anti-Japanese War broke out, the fuel research laboratory moved to Hankou and Changsha. However, at that time, Nanjing Public Company relied entirely on the experimental plant for vehicle fuel. He and another duty officer risked bombing by enemy planes and insisted on taking turns to be on duty day and night. Construction started until the Japanese invaders approached the outskirts of Nanjing and hurriedly withdrew to Changsha. In the spring of 1938, as imported oil products were almost cut off, the Resources Committee sent Jin Kaiying, director of the Fuel Research Office, to prepare for the construction of the Chongqing Vegetable Oil Refining Light Oil Plant (later renamed the Power Oil Plant). Zou Ming was assigned to work on the site and was promoted to section chief. In March 1941, the Gansu Oil Mine Bureau of the Resources Committee was formally established. Industrial and mining industrialist Sun Yueqi was appointed as the general manager, and Zou Ming was transferred to the bureau's refinery material section chief. He was deeply influenced by Sun Yueqi's idea of ??"saving the country through industry" and devoted himself to the oil industry, making suggestions for the development of the Yumen Oil Mine and doing his best. In the winter of 1941, a cracking and refining unit ordered from the United States was damaged by enemy bombing during transportation. Under the extremely difficult conditions at that time, Zou Ming and others tried every means to rush to the mainland to make a refining steamer, install it, transport it, and put it into use. In 1942, gasoline production increased An increase of 9 times compared with the previous year. At the end of 1942, Zou Ming was sent to the United States to serve as the representative of Gansu Oil Mines in the United States. At this time, international civilian cargo transportation was almost interrupted, and the imported equipment needed by the Yumen Oil Mine was in urgent need. Zou Ming tried every means to successfully pass the "Lease Act" to provide urgent materials and equipment to the Yumen Oil Mine, ensuring the smooth progress of the oil mine's production and construction.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in August 1945, Zou Ming returned to China and went to Shanghai to take over the oil storage facilities and other facilities built by the Japanese Petroleum Company in Gaoqiao, Shanghai during the Japanese invasion of China. He then organized personnel to successfully take over the facilities. Oil storage facilities established by Japanese companies in Nanjing, Hankou, Guangzhou, Qingdao, Tianjin and other places. Later, he participated in the preparations for the establishment of PetroChina Co., Ltd., planning to use the coastal and riverside oil storage facilities that he took over to carry out the marketing business of imported refined oil, and use the profits to restore and build refineries and oil fields. To this end, he was transferred to the position of director of the head office's sales office and manager of the Shanghai sales office. In August 1948, he served as the associate manager of the head office, and in September he concurrently served as the manager of the Ganqing Branch (Yumen Oil Mine).

Not long after arriving at the mine, under the fierce offensive of the People's Liberation Army, the Nanjing National Government's regime was in danger. The Kuomintang reactionaries entrenched in the northwest tried to destroy the oil mine as they fled. Driven by his patriotism, love for the mine and love for the oil industry, Zou Ming risked his life and led all the mine workers to protect the mine. After an arduous and tortuous struggle, he finally defeated the reactionaries' conspiracy and returned the Yumen Oil Mine to the people intact. He was praised by the Northwest Military and Political Committee of the Liberated Area at that time.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zou Ming devoted himself enthusiastically to the construction of New China. He is hard-working and responsible, and has successively served as deputy director of the Northwest Petroleum Administration Bureau and manager and engineer of the Fuel Industry Department. When the Ministry of Petroleum Industry was established in 1955, he was transferred to the position of deputy chief engineer (later promoted to chief engineer) of the Supply and Manufacturing Bureau of the Ministry of Petroleum, and often went to work at the grassroots level. In February 1960, he participated in the Daqing Petroleum Battle and served as deputy commander of the supply headquarters, responsible for organizing the supply of equipment and equipment required for the battle. At that time, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from all walks of life were fighting on the prairie of more than 800 square kilometers. Exploration, development, and oil field construction went hand in hand, requiring a large variety of equipment and equipment, and a large amount of time. Due to careful organization, preparedness and timely dispatch , working day and night to ensure the normal progress of the battle, producing and transporting nearly one million tons of crude oil that year.

In early 1962, Zou Ming was appointed deputy commander of the Daqing Refining Headquarters, in charge of the supply of materials and equipment required for refinery construction. Due to various effective measures, the first phase of the project was completed and put into operation ahead of schedule in only 18 months. In 1964, he presided over the newly established supporting office of the Ministry of Petroleum. Through self-reliance, he promptly solved the problem of five new refining units and what was then known as the "Five Golden Flowers" of my country's refining industry (in 1962, the Ministry of Petroleum Industry held a refining work conference. Catalytic reforming, delayed coking, urea dewaxing and related catalysts and additives, known as the "Five Golden Flowers" of the oil refining industry), supporting problems in equipment, pipe fittings, valves, instruments, etc. that have arisen during construction have accelerated the development of petroleum industry. The goal of "passing the customs in three years and establishing a foothold in the country in five years" was achieved ahead of schedule.

During the "Cultural Revolution", Zou Ming was greatly affected and was detained and interrogated for 7 years. The final investigation conclusion was: "This was a wrong case based on a false confession and should be prosecuted." Rehabilitate."

In 1978, Zou Ming resumed his work and was appointed as a consultant to the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry (renamed consultant to China National Offshore Oil Corporation in 1982). He understands the general situation, considers the overall situation, looks forward, and devotes all his energy and enthusiasm to the new work of offshore oil cooperation with foreign countries. He conducted a large number of investigations and studies on international oil exploration and development contracts and oil economics, introduced and established economic evaluation mechanisms, participated in the formulation of various foreign cooperation documents, tender evaluation and contract negotiation, and trained cadres. He also effectively defended my country's offshore oil opening policy through economic analysis at the Bohai Petroleum Cooperation Demonstration Conference. He retired in 1993 at the age of 80.

In addition to holding the above-mentioned positions, Zou Ming is also a member of the Sixth and Seventh National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member and deputy chairman of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry (1982 to 1987), and a senior advisory member of the Ministry of Energy (1990). from 1992 to 1992), and a specially invited expert from the Consulting Center of China National Petroleum Corporation (from 1993 to 1998). In 1990, he was the first batch of people to enjoy special government subsidies. From 1980 to 1985, he participated in offshore oil delegations to the United Kingdom, Norway, Egypt, the United States, France, etc. for inspection and exchange. In 1986, he was invited to participate in the Pacific Basin Oil and Gas Seminar hosted by the Financial Times in Hong Kong and delivered a keynote speech. At the symposium of the Senior Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Energy, he has put forward many suggestions on the management system and business development strategy of my country's petroleum industry. When the Pacific War broke out in December 1941, the cracking and refining units and other equipment ordered by the Yumen Oil Mine from the United States were bombed by enemy planes in Yangon, India, during transportation. Sun Yueqi, general manager of the Gansu Oil Mine Bureau, decided to be self-reliant and face the difficulties, and agreed to rush to build refining equipment in the mainland for emergency response. Under the extremely difficult conditions at that time, Zou Ming and business director Guo Kequan went to Chongqing and immediately organized personnel to carry out the interlocking work from the design of oil refining equipment, plant selection and manufacturing, supervision and inspection to packaging and shipping. There was insufficient steel, so oil storage tanks, ships, etc. were dismantled. After overcoming many difficulties, 6 sets of stepped continuous retort furnaces were finally made in a relatively short period of time. After long-distance transportation of 2,500 kilometers, 4 sets were successively installed and put into production in Yumen that year. The group completed the 1942 goal of producing 1.8 million gallons of gasoline ahead of schedule, nine times the previous year's output, effectively supporting the Anti-Japanese War.

A large part of the equipment and equipment required for the production and construction of Yumen Oil Mine depends on foreign supplies. At that time, international transportation was almost interrupted due to the war, and the source of imported equipment for the Yumen Oil Mine was in urgent need. The Resources Committee's office in the United States tried many times to include the emergency equipment for the Yumen Oil Mine in the U.S. Lend-Lease Act, but was ultimately unsuccessful. In the winter of 1942, Zou Ming served as the representative of the Gansu Oil Mine Bureau in the United States. After he arrived in the United States, he vigorously promoted the role of the Yumen Oil Mine in the Anti-Japanese War to relevant U.S. departments. He finally received support from the U.S. Wartime Petroleum Administration, prompting the Lend-Lease Administration to agree to include Yumen Oil Mine's urgent equipment as military supplies in the lease. Apply for supply within the bill. In this way, from 1943 to 1945, the drilling, mining, and refining equipment, accessories, tools, instruments, pipes, etc. imported from abroad for the Yumen Oil Mine were all provided through the U.S. Lend-Lease Act project. Some urgently needed equipment such as wellhead equipment, Drilling tools, drill bits, accessories, instruments, etc. have also been airlifted to Kolkata, India, by the Air Force many times and transferred domestically, ensuring the needs of the production and construction of the Yumen Oil Mine and improving the technical level. In addition, through the assistance of American engineering design companies, he introduced a vacuum distillation device and a centrifugal dewaxing device for refining lubricants from the Lend-Lease Act, and equipped the DUBBS cracking device that was lost in the Pacific War. and equipment that has been consumed or misappropriated from the mine. These devices were put into operation before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China in the Yumen Oil Mine, which rapidly improved the refining capacity, product variety and quality of the Yumen Oil Mine. As early as April 1949, Zou Ming, then associate director of China National Petroleum Corporation and manager of the Gansu-Qinghai branch, returned to the Yumen Oil Mine and began organizing mine protection work. They successively took three main measures: First, they purchased and transported large quantities of grain, raised gold and silver, and rushed to transport daily necessities, cloth, etc. bought from Shanghai to ensure the living needs of all mine workers and their families. Second, in order to calm people's hearts, they adopted the method of "keeping their jobs without pay" and sent away nearly a thousand people, including some who were uneasy about working in the mine. Third, in July, a mine protection team composed of veteran workers and technical backbones was established as the core force to protect the production departments in the mining area. Special personnel were designated to do the work of the Kuomintang garrison so that it would not become a tool to destroy the oil mines. Prior to this, he emphasized at the all-mine workers' meeting held on June 1 that oil mines are the treasure of the country and the wealth of the people, and asked everyone to protect the oil mines. He said impassionedly: He is willing to work with everyone to protect the oil mines. *** Survival or death. It has won the heartfelt support of the majority of employees.

Faced with the Kuomintang reactionaries threatening to destroy the oil mines if necessary, Zou Ming deeply felt that his own strength was limited. If the liberation of Lanzhou took too long, the oil mines would be difficult to support. To this end, through telegraph contact, he flew to Hong Kong in mid-August to report in detail the mine protection measures and concerns to his old boss Sun Yueqi, who had resigned as chairman of the Resources Committee. In addition to expressing his approval, Sun Yueqi immediately called Shao Lizi and Qian Changzhao in Peiping through the Hong Kong organization of the Communist Party of China, asking them to tell the relevant parties of the Communist Party of China about the mine protection situation of the Yumen Oil Mine, and hoped that the army would not stop after the liberation of Lanzhou. The land continued to march northwest. When Zou Ming was in Hong Kong, he also negotiated with the general manager of China National Petroleum Corporation to raise funds to support the Yumen Oil Mine.

After Zou Ming returned to Lanzhou from Guangzhou, he immediately reported the details to Sun Jianchu, director of the Lanzhou Exploration Department, and Gao Kun, manager of the Lanzhou Sales Office. He also studied Lanzhou's production protection measures in detail and made an appointment to make their respective plans. Maternity care work. When Zou Ming returned to the oil mine, all units at the mine had begun to protect the production facilities. He continued to organize mine director Liu Shuren, refinery director Xiong Shangyuan and others to separately seal and camouflage or enclose the oil wells in the mine. The refinery loaded the refining unit and oil product warehouse with empty oil barrels, stacked three layers of sand and gravel, and covered them with iron bars. A tight fence was built by welding, and each unit hid important equipment that could not be used temporarily, such as drilling rigs, diesel generators, oil pumps, instruments, etc., as well as more than 80 trucks, into the ravine, etc.

When the Yumen Oil Mine was liberated, the grain stored in the mine amounted to more than 10,000 stones, equivalent to about 500 tons, and gold and silver were equivalent to more than 300,000 silver dollars, which was enough for the entire mine workers and their families to live for half a year. The entire mine had no Regardless of any losses, production and construction did not stop for a moment, causing the Yumen Oil Mine to enter a period of rapid development soon after liberation. With the development of Daqing Oilfield, the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry has included accelerating the development of the oil refining industry on the important agenda to solve the problem of self-sufficiency in petroleum products in my country. In the winter of 1961, Sun Jingwen, the deputy minister in charge of refining infrastructure, selected Zou Ming to serve as the concurrent chief infrastructure engineer of the Longfeng Refinery under construction. This plant is the first modern large-scale oil refinery designed by itself, equipped with self-made equipment, and constructed and installed by itself after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

At that time, my country's national economy was experiencing three years of difficulties. After arriving at the factory, Zou Ming first solved the problems of water, electricity, communications, highway transportation, etc., and prepared for the construction. In the spring of 1962, the plant was officially renamed Daqing Refinery (the predecessor of Daqing Petrochemical Plant). Zou Ming served as deputy commander of the factory construction headquarters, in charge of equipment, equipment supply and other work. He organized the design and supply staff to work together to prepare a material plan, highlighting key points and paying close attention to implementation. For non-standard process equipment, designers went to the manufacturing plant to solve various problems. With the coordinated cooperation of design, construction and supply, the first phase of the project was completed and put into production ahead of schedule in only 18 months, and was praised by the Ministry of Petroleum.

The delayed coking unit, one of the “Five Golden Flowers”, was designed to ensure the necessary equipment, accessories, valves, instruments and other supporting work for the new oil refining unit, which was the then well-known “Five Golden Flowers” ??of China’s oil refining at home and abroad. In the spring of 1964, Vice Minister Sun Jingwen decided to set up a supporting office in the ministry, with Zou Ming in charge, and organized relevant personnel from the design, infrastructure, and supply departments to collaboratively solve supporting problems during construction. On the one hand, they promptly solve the problems that arise during the trial production of new products and on the manufacturing of key equipment and instruments; on the other hand, they assist the construction unit to solve problems that arise during construction. For example, the double-action slide valve, a key piece of equipment in the catalytic cracking unit of the No. 2 Petroleum Plant, could not be used because its stability did not meet the design requirements after trial production at the Lanzhou Refinery Machinery Factory. Vice Minister Sun Jingwen personally arranged to invite automatic control experts and machinery manufacturing experts from the Second Machinery Department, Lanzhou Petrochemical Machinery Factory, Shanghai Thermal Instrument Factory, Shanghai Turbine Factory and other factories, and designated Zou Ming to organize and coordinate to jointly tackle key problems in Lanlian. Zou Ming led everyone to work hard for three days, so that the stability fully met the design requirements, and it was transported overnight to Fushun Petroleum Plant No. 2 through a dedicated line, ensuring that my country's first set of catalytic cracking units was successfully put into production, and "passing the test in three years and passing the test in five years" for petroleum products. Contributed to the early realization of "based on domestic". In 1978, the Chinese government approved foreign cooperation in offshore oil, and Zou Ming was appointed as a consultant to the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry. He devoted all his energy and enthusiasm to this work. Through consultation and exchanges with experts such as the United Nations Center for Transnational Corporations and foreign oil companies, as well as his original research on international oil economics, he spared no effort to introduce and establish offshore oil exploration and development. Economic evaluation mechanism, and with the assistance of senior economist Shi Hongxi, organized and established a computer room, which created conditions for the analysis of contract economic terms and oil and gas field development evaluation, and played an important role in the first round of bidding evaluation and contract negotiation for offshore oil foreign cooperation. important role.

Zou Ming has conducted a large number of investigations and studies on various types of international oil exploration and development contract forms and their characteristics, and actively participated in geophysical agreements, "Standard Contracts", "The People's Republic of China and the State Council". The formulation of the Regulations on Cooperative Exploitation of Offshore Petroleum Resources, the first round of tender evaluation and contract negotiations with foreign oil companies. At the end of 1978, he promptly reported to the leaders of the Ministry of Petroleum the dangers of the “general contracting” approach proposed for the Sino-Japanese Bohai Sea Petroleum Agreement, thus avoiding major economic losses. Zou Ming and others also consulted foreign tax experts and, with the support of the leaders of the Ministry of Petroleum, proposed to the Ministry of Finance that the tax rates in the foreign cooperative enterprise income tax law be adopted as a progressive system, that is, high tax rates would be used to address the concerns of foreign oil companies. This proposal was adopted by the Ministry of Finance, allowing the first round of offshore oil bidding to proceed as scheduled.

my country’s offshore oil cooperation with foreign countries has aroused doubts among some people at home and abroad. They are afraid of losing sovereignty and being cheated. In particular, they believe that China has suffered a big loss in the Sino-Japanese Bohai Sea Cooperation Zone Exploration and Development Contract signed in 1980. , some even disapprove of the opening of offshore oil to the outside world. To this end, the National Energy Commission and the Import and Export Administration Commission jointly held a Bohai Sea Oil Exploration and Development Demonstration Conference in the spring of 1981, inviting domestic experts, scholars, engineering and technical cadres and heads of relevant competent departments to conduct demonstrations on the Bohai Sea oil contract. At the meeting, Zou Ming spent a day and a half conducting a detailed analysis of the economic terms of the Bohai contract, and used a large amount of economic data calculated using computer programs according to various plans, including the economic benefit ratio of both parties, foreign business profitability, and investment profits. The range of the ratio shows that the economic terms of the Sino-Japanese Bohai Sea contract are more favorable to us and protect the economic rights and interests of resource distance reduction. Compared with the economic terms of the British and Norwegian North Sea oil contracts, the Japanese side's profitability is not High, China has not been deceived. Through demonstration, we have basically gained basic knowledge, eliminated interference, and maintained my country's offshore oil policy of opening up to the outside world.