What is Xiao Chun Oil and Gas Field?

Xiao oilfield is located between 28 degrees north latitude 10 and east longitude 124 degrees 40 minutes 50 minutes to 125 degrees 20 minutes. Northeast of Taiwan Province Province 193.65 or so? Located in the West Lake Depression of the East China Sea, it consists of four oil and gas fields, namely Xiao Chun, Canxue, Duanqiao and Tianwaitian, with a total area of 22,000 square kilometers.

Experts estimate that the East China Sea oil field contains 25 billion tons of oil, equivalent to 80 times of China's total oil consumption of 300 million tons last year. Together with the estimated natural gas of more than 8 trillion cubic meters, Donghai Oilfield is enough for China to use for 80 years.

In the East China Sea conflict between China and Japan, Diaoyu Island is 0/000 km away from Japan/KLOC-but less than 500 km away from Chinese mainland. Xiao Chun Oilfield is only on the China side of the Japan-China middle line.

China can't afford to lose his arm and shoulder. Behind the oil wrestling between China and Japan.

When backward countries catch up with developed leading countries, how should leading countries react?

In the past two years, China and Japan have been wrestling in the energy field, almost to the point of getting a penny. The infighting between Anda Line and Anna Line is only the beginning, and the recent fierce dispute over the right to develop oil and gas resources in the East China Sea also confirms this trend. China is the country with the best economic development momentum in the world in recent years, while Japan is still the largest economic power in East Asia. There is a natural competitive relationship between China and Japan. Any dispute between two neighboring countries like China and Japan will never be confined to pure economic interests. Behind the Sino-Japanese energy dispute, there are undoubtedly some more important issues.

Japan provokes oil and gas disputes in the East China Sea.

The vast East China Sea suddenly became the focus of Sino-Japanese disputes, which originated from several reports and comments published by Tokyo News.

On May 28th, 2004, Tokyo News published articles entitled "China builds natural gas exploitation facilities in the waters near the Japan-China border" and "Japan-China new unsolved case", saying that the reporter found through investigation that China has started to build natural gas exploitation facilities in China waters very close to the "Japan-China middle line" and was "worried about the monopoly of resources". According to the report, the exploitation facilities of China's "Xiao Chun" natural gas field are only 5 kilometers away from the "middle line" between China and Japan. According to the report, due to the construction of Xiaochun natural gas field, the East China Sea may actually become the "inland sea of China". The article also said that it was "only a matter of time" for China to set up a large-scale oil and gas exploration facility group near the "-China Middle Line", which showed "China's enthusiasm for expanding into the East China Sea". On July 7th, the Japanese government sent a Norwegian-flagged marine survey ship from Naha, Okinawa to the East China Sea, which attracted China's close attention.

Chunxiao gas field group is located 350 kilometers southeast of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province (about 190 nautical mile), which is a joint development project of CNOOC and Sinopec. China successfully tried mining here as early as 1995, and now it is carrying out infrastructure construction, which will be completed by the end of the year as planned. After completion, natural gas will be transported to Ningbo through submarine pipelines. According to the Japanese side, it is about 5 kilometers away from Japan's exclusive economic zone. Due to the characteristics of seabed geological structure, China oil well may absorb Japanese oil and gas through the straw principle, which will damage Japan's potential interests. Therefore, it is obviously unreasonable to repeatedly ask the China government to provide oil and gas resources reserves and exploitation data in the East China Sea.

China can't have another broken arm and shoulder.

The ancients said: To gain a county is a great honor to expand the territory; Lose a county, break an arm, die a shoulder. In today's world, although there is no longer a territory to be developed, it is still an "exclusive economic zone" to be developed.

According to the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a country has sovereignty and jurisdiction over its territorial sea and the natural resources in waters beyond its territorial sea, which is called the exclusive economic zone. Its extension to the ocean shall not exceed 200 nautical miles from the baseline from which the width of the territorial sea is measured. The widest point of the East China Sea is only 360 nautical miles, so there seems to be a disputed sea area at least 40 nautical miles wide between China and Japan.

1982, Japan proposed that the method of drawing a line in the middle of the disputed sea area is half of one country, which is what Japan called the "Japan-China middle line". However, this plan has long been rejected by China, because Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea provides another way to establish an exclusive economic zone based on the continental shelf principle. According to this principle, a country's exclusive economic zone should be within its continental shelf. According to the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, "the continental shelf of coastal countries, according to the natural extension of their land territory, includes the seabed and subsoil in the seabed area at the outer edge of the continental margin except the territorial sea." It also stipulates that the standard depth for cutting off the continental shelf is 2500 meters.

Both China and Japan are well aware of the topography and geomorphological structure of the seabed in the East China Sea. The continental shelf of the East China Sea is a broad and gentle continental shelf, extending eastward to the Okinawa Trough. The depth of Okinawa Trough is 2,940m, which exceeds the standard of 2,500m stipulated in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and it is the dividing line between the continental shelf of China and the continental shelf of Ryukyu Islands. Therefore, the whole East China Sea west of Okinawa Trough, including the seabed where Diaoyu Island is located, is a natural extension of China's continental shelf and naturally belongs to China's exclusive economic zone. As early as 1958, China began a comprehensive marine geological survey. In 1970s, China declared its sovereignty over the East China Sea. Even according to Japan's "Japan-China Middle Line", Chunxiao gas field belongs entirely to China and has nothing to do with Japan.

China has experienced the pain of ceding land for reparations many times in history, but China is not the China it used to be. China's long coastline and exclusive economic zone, like thick shoulders and two arms extending outward, will never tolerate other countries' knives and axes, suffering from the pain of broken arms and dead shoulders.

Sino-Japanese oil and gas disputes implicitly focus on major issues.

Both China and Japan have energy shortages. Japan has a small territory and scarce resources, and its oil demand is almost entirely dependent on imports. China has been a net oil importer since 1993. Last year, it surpassed Japan and became the second largest oil importer in the world after the United States. According to the estimation of the International Energy Agency, by 2030, the proportion of imported oil in China's total oil demand will increase from the current 34% to over 80%.

Both are energy sources, but for China and Japan, they are faced with two completely different problems. Japan was an imperialist country as early as the end of 19. /kloc-In the past 0/00 years, apart from Europe and North America, and several former colonies of European countries such as Australia and New Zealand, only Japan has entered the ranks of developed countries. To some extent, Japan became a developed country because it plundered China, Korea and other Asian countries in previous wars. After World War II, Japan was sheltered by the United States and stood up again from the ruins. Today, Japan is still the second largest economic power in the world. For Japan, the energy issue is essentially just a purely economic interest issue. Oil and natural gas, like timber, diamonds, copper and other important metal deposits, are regarded as "predatory resources" in Japan.

For China, ensuring the future energy supply is related to the great cause of national rejuvenation and national rise. China is the most important ancient civilization in the world. In the long history of human civilization in the past 5,000 years, China gradually lost its leading position in the world only in the last two or three centuries. From the perspective of historical philosophy, while losing its original advantages, China has begun the historical process of realizing its revival and rise.

Since the Opium War in 1840, to be exact, since the failure of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894+65438, the Japanese people have been in the historical process of rejuvenation and forge ahead. In the past 20 years, this process has been on the right track, jumped to a new stage, and broke out with great influence.

According to the data released by the British shipping survey company, in 2003, there were 33 large cargo ships of 80,000 tons and above newly built in the world. China's economic demand for shipping capacity is calculated on the basis that each ship sails seven times a year, which is equivalent to 6,543,800+0.5 million tons of 35 cargo ships. Due to the rapid expansion of freight demand centered on China, the freight rate of the international shipping industry has soared, and the daily rent of large cargo ships has soared from about 20,000 US dollars to more than 654.38 million US dollars. Goldman Sachs published a research report on June 5438+ 10 last year, predicting that China's GDP will catch up with Britain in 2005, German before 20 10 and Japanese around 20 15. Although this is only a prediction, the world has already felt that such a vision is not out of reach.

As early as 1758, the British philosopher David Dangel; Hume raised a question: When the economically backward countries catch up with the developed leading countries, how should the leading countries react? Hume pointed out that the leader's "strangling the latecomers in the cradle" is an "instinctive reaction". However, we believe that once China's economic development is on the right track, although the road ahead is still full of thorns, it will be unstoppable.