Chapter 30 Chapter Eleven

On January 20, 1955, the first national oil census work conference held by the Ministry of Geology was held in Beijing.There were 200 official representatives and 116 non-voting representatives attending the meeting. In addition to the heads of units directly under the Ministry of Geology, representatives from the State Petroleum Administration, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the State Council, and the State Planning Commission also participated.The main cadres and technical personnel preparing to participate in the work of the petroleum survey team were also invited to attend.This meeting can be described as the first pre-war general mobilization and deployment of the new China's oil industry, which has aroused the attention of all parties.Minister Li Siguang delivered an opening speech.The main topic of the meeting was the "Report on the Guidelines and Tasks of the 1955 Oil and Gas Census Work" written by Vice Minister Xu Jie.The plans and tasks in this report are actually formulated according to Huang Jiqing and Xie Jiarong.However, when the reporter finished reading the last word, Huang Jiqing was puzzled: why is there no Songliao Basin!Looking at the representatives of the conference, the heads of the Northwest, Southwest, North China, and Xinjiang bureaus all came, but there was no one from the Northeast Geological Bureau!What a wonder!

Huang Jiqing was in a hurry, and he hurriedly found Li Ben, the specific person in charge of the meeting, to ask about it. "Because there is no project for them, I didn't notify them of their arrival. I don't know why." Li Ben, who was dragged around by the conference affairs, said so. As the chief technology officer of the PPC, Huang Jiqing was not only angry about this, but also very incomprehensible.According to common sense, the plan formulated by Xie Jiarong was later written by Liu Yi and changed to the report of the deputy minister. As the basic content of the main report of the meeting, if it is a project and technical problem, even if there is a major change after it is sent. , He and Xie Jiarong should also be consulted.But now, fortunately, both of them were kept in the dark.You know, among all the projects that Huang Jiqing listed, the Songliao Basin is his most passionate dream.In contrast, whether oil fields can be found in other basins is a sure thing, but Songliao is different. Like the North China Basin, it is a breakthrough work for the Chinese to realize the discovery of large oil fields in continental areas. Its significance extraordinary.

Before Huang Jiqing could get to the bottom of the cancellation of the Songliao Basin census project, the Ministry Affairs Committee informed him to report. This is an opportunity, be sure to seize it!Therefore, Huang Jiqing, in his capacity as the chief technical officer of the CPPCC, once again clarified and emphasized at the ministerial meeting the opinions and suggestions that the oil survey in the Songliao Basin should be included in the plan. Then there was another result that surprised Huang Jiqing: at the ministerial meeting, including minister Li Siguang, and the vice minister Xu Jie who made the report on canceling the Songliao Basin census plan, they did not raise any objections to his proposal.In this way, the Songliao Basin Petroleum Survey Project was re-listed as an annual task.

Huang Jiqing breathed a sigh of relief.At the end of the National Petroleum Census Work Conference, Hu Ke, the representative of the Northeast Bureau and director of the Geology and Mineral Resources Department, also rushed to Beijing. "Which technical person in charge of your bureau is going to send to lead the team? The oil census in the Songliao Plain is very important!" Huang Jiqing couldn't wait to ask Director Hu Ke when they met. The other party said: "I haven't had time to report to the bureau yet, and I will let you know after I go back and discuss it."

"We must hurry up. Let the bureau choose a stronger technical cadre." "yes." After Huang Jiqing finished the last sentence, he settled down for a while. The census in Songliao was full of twists and turns. The master turned the tide and sang the oil song.The son suddenly cried out: Please!Dad, I can't hear this word... 1955 was an important year for Huang Jiqing. 1955 was also an important year for China's petroleum industry. This year, the Central People's Government decided to formally establish the Ministry of Petroleum Industry.General Li Jukui served as minister, and Kang Shien served as assistant minister.

This year, Karamay Oilfield, the first oilfield in New China, was discovered. This year, as the most important preliminary work for the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield, the petroleum geological survey of the Songliao Basin began in an all-round way. Although it cannot be compared with Mao Zedong’s decisive battle with Chiang Kai-shek’s reactionary army in Northeast China and North China, as a national petroleum survey and exploration work that is related to whether the great industrial revolution of New China can be smoothly advanced, its In the view of Huang Jiqing, the chief engineer of this arduous task, the scale and its significance may not be much different.

The first national petroleum census work conference ended, and the census tasks in Xinjiang, Qaidam, Ordos, Sichuan, North China, and Songliao regions have been approved to be determined and implemented.After that, Huang Jiqing's general committee began to enter the specific operation stage. The deployment of the team, the distribution of technical forces, and one project design task book after another required detailed inquiries and finalization.Huang Jiqing is so busy that sometimes he has no time to go back to his home which is hundreds of meters away.At that time, besides Liu Yi and Xie Jiarong, who was nearly sixty years old, there were all young people around him.They can spin around for days and nights without anyone complaining.At this time, the only reward is to hit Mr. Huang once.At that time, Huang Jiqing was paid the salary of a first-level professor, more than 300 yuan, which could be equivalent to the money of ten college students.Huang Ji was overjoyed, and said that it is okay to treat guests, but there is a condition!What conditions?Must go to Sichuan restaurant, serve boiled beef!At first, several young people from Northeast China were really cured by Huang Jiqing's trick.The Sichuan cuisine, especially the boiled beef, has a lot of spicy peppers, and several people were defeated.Hahaha... Seeing if you guys are still trying to trick me, Huang Jiqing laughed heartily as he looked at the embarrassment of his disciples.A few years later, all his disciples have practiced spicy food: one or two bowls of boiled beef is not a problem at all.The disciples shouted together: If this continues, the master will not be able to take it anymore!Huang Jiqing waved his hands and said with a smile: "It's nothing, it's nothing. I'm happy that you can get spicy."People who are engaged in geology travel through mountains and rivers all year round, eat in the wind and sleep in the open. Chili is a good food that is both edible and cold-proof. If you can eat it often, it proves that you can go to the wild more to find mines and oil for the country!After hearing this, the disciples realized: Good sir, the purpose of the treat is to train us!

It was a time of joy and enthusiasm. When Huang Jiqing passed away, he was 8 days short of his 91st birthday.It is rare to live in the 70s. People as old as the master are rare even in the modern society where the living conditions are very good.Many surveys on the reasons for the health of birthday stars have proved that cheerfulness and comfort are closely related to people's life expectancy. When Huang Jiqing was alive, he said that there were three periods in his life when he lived the most comfortable life. The first section is about the seven or eight years before he returned to China in 1935 when he worked as an investigator in the Geological Survey Institute under Ding Wenjiang and Weng Wenhao after he left the university.This stage is the flashing period of youth in which he quickly emerges in his career and academics after his academic achievements.

The second period is the six or seven years from the liberation of Chongqing to the time when he personally organized and led the discovery and exploitation of a number of national important oilfields and mineral fields such as Daqing Oilfield. This was the most successful golden period in Huang Jiqing's life. The third section starts from the spring of science initiated by Deng Xiaoping after the crushing of the Gang of Four, to the fourteen or five years before Huang Jiqing's death. The three stages add up to about thirty years. Such a good time may not be too short for ordinary people, but for a long-lived person like the master, it seems not too much.In his life, the times of depression and pain are far more than his days of relaxation and joy.

Good times are always unforgettable, and what Huang Jiqing feels the most about is the period before and after organizing and leading the Daqing Oilfield.In terms of time, it happened to be the middle part of his life.That was an important turning point for him to gain new life as an old intellectual. In the middle of the twentieth century, a major event that shocked mankind took place in China.The communists headed by Mao Zedong and the Kuomintang government represented by Chiang Kai-shek are waging the biggest decisive battle in the history of the Chinese nation.The majority of Chinese people, especially Chinese intellectuals, are faced with a choice.At this moment, Huang Jiqing is on the way of petroleum scientific investigation and academic exchange in western countries.In the summer of 1948, as a main member of the Chinese delegation, he was invited by the British Council to attend the 18th International Geological Congress.Then, in order to develop China's oil industry, he went to Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and finally to the United States for academic visits and geological trips.In the past half a year in the United States, he has traveled to several important oil-bearing hills in Texas, Colorado, California and other states, and has cooperated with more than a dozen famous universities and colleges such as MIT, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, University of California, etc. The geological survey agencies of the federal states of the United States conducted academic exchanges.Due to several years of local practice and the absorption of advanced Western technologies and theories, Huang Jiqing at this time has become a petroleum expert from a famous geologist.He hopes that he can also find large oil fields like Baku in the Soviet Union and California in the United States on the 9.6 million square kilometers of the motherland!