人类社会即将跨入一个新世纪。世界各国、各大全球性企业无不为自身在新世纪的发展而秣马厉兵。对于我国这样一个发展中的大国来说,伴随着经济的快速发展和石油进口量的迅速增加,确保石油的长期稳定供应已成为关系到下个世纪国民经济发展的重大课题。持续一年多的油价暴涨,为中国再次敲响了警钟。 Human society is about to enter a new century. All countries in the world and all major global enterprises are all striving for their own development in the new century. For a developing country such as China, with the rapid economic development and the rapid increase of oil imports, ensuring a long-term and stable oil supply has become a major issue concerning the development of the national economy in the next century. The skyrocketing oil price, which lasted for more than a year, sounded the alarm again for China.