Chapter 33 Chapter Fourteen

Just after New Year's Day in 1956, Huang Jiqing, who was busy in the office, suddenly received a call from the State Affairs Office, asking him to go to Zhongnanhai, and told Vice Premier Chen Yun to call him for something important. The next morning, Huang Jiqing went to the appointment as scheduled. "Heh, you are Huang Jiqing Cizhi who organized the discovery of Yumen Oilfield 20 years ago? Alright, our oil expert!" As soon as Chen Yun met, he poured tea for Huang and gave up his seat like an old friend. Huang Jiqing was a little apprehensive at the time, because it was the first time he met alone with the vice premier in charge of industry, and he didn't understand why the other party knew so much about his past.

Seeing Huang Jiqing's suspicious expression, Chen Yun smiled: "I not only know that you were the director of the famous Central Geological Survey before liberation, but also that you found several very useful geologists in the southwest region after the founding of New China. What a big mine! Comrade Xiaoping often praises you for this!" It turned out that this was the case, Huang Jiqing's heart suddenly became clear. "When Chairman Mao discussed the first constitution of New China, he asked us to use the three five-year plans to lay a solid foundation and strive to build our great socialist country into an industrialized and modernized country within the ten five-year plans. A strong country.” The master started the topic, staring at Huang Jiqing, but he seemed to be asking himself: But people say that China is poor in oil, but oil is the blood of industry. Without oil, how can a modern industrial country be built? Law?How can I, the vice premier in charge of industry and economy, explain to Chairman Mao and the people of the whole country?

Before going to Zhongnanhai, Huang Jiqing didn't know what Chen Yun wanted to talk to him about.When he heard such anxious words from the national leader, Huang Jiqing, as a technical director of the geological and oil front, was strongly shaken in his heart. "Comrade Deputy Prime Minister, I will review to you, the main reason is that our work has not been done well." "No, no, that's not what I mean by asking you to talk about it today. It should be said that you and the comrades from the Ministry of Geology have done a lot of work in the development of PetroChina. Not only should you not review it, but you should also praise it. We are very confident in the oil-generating prospects of several large basins that have been discovered, which is worth encouraging." Chen Yun said kindly.After a while, he leaned closer to Huang Jiqing and said, "You are in science, and I am in economics. It is impossible for us to say irresponsible things like some people, so I invite you here today to hear Listen to your attitude towards PetroChina’s pre-record. You are an expert, and I believe your words.”

Huang Jiqing was impatient, but when he was about to speak, he was stopped by Chen Yun's last words.I thought to myself: Yes, I should say that I have the right to speak about the situation of PetroChina, but because my words will affect the decision-making of national leaders, so I should be more afraid of it.If I were a speculative politician, what an opportunity this moment is!Why not pat your chest and say this: Comrade Vice Premier, China is rich in oil resources. As long as you give me enough manpower, material and financial resources, I promise to find a batch of large oil fields within ten or eight years.But I am a scientific worker, and I must not say something irresponsible like this, it will bring disaster to the country and the people!Seeing Huang Jiqing's silence, Chen Yun thought that the other party was unwilling to tell the unoptimistic oil prospects, so he said: "Actually, what the central government and I are most concerned about right now is nothing else but the hope that we are making some major strategic deployment. At present, I have a good idea of ​​the future prospects of PetroChina. Because oil is too important, other things cannot be done without it. It is still an old saying: one is oil with abundant windows, which is very good; the other is really poor oil, Then we have to go the way of man-made oil."

Through the words of Vice Premier Chen Yun, Huang Jiqing knew in his heart how concerned the country's leaders are about the prospects of PetroChina.In fact, when Huang Jiqing came to the vice premier's office, He Changgong was in the Juxiang Bookstore at this time, and Mao Zedong broke into a cold sweat because of the same question. "Vice Premier Chen, may I answer you like this?" Huang Jiqing stood up. "Sit down, sit down and talk." Chen Yun hurriedly beckoned. Huang Jiqingzuo said: "Based on my more than 20 years of research and practice on PetroChina, especially the exploration and development of Yumen in Gansu, Karamay Oilfield in Xinjiang, and Weiyuan Gas Field in Sichuan, I think we should be confident about the prospect of PetroChina's self-sufficiency. Full of confidence. Especially in the survey and exploration of several large basins in the past year, the prospect of oil is very big, and my colleagues and I are quite optimistic about this. By the way, I will tell the Deputy Prime Minister in advance a good news that may be auspicious.”

"Speak quickly, I'll listen." "Not long ago, we sent a small team to the Songliao Plain in the northeast, and found a piece..." Huang Jiqing saw that the Deputy Prime Minister was so serious, so he gave a detailed report on the census and reconnaissance of the Songliao Basin from beginning to end. . "Okay, you are right. You must hold on to Songliao until you understand it thoroughly." Chen Yun, who rarely had a smiling face, was also beaming at this moment. Huang Jiqing, who was encouraged, also opened up like a box, saying: "I have another suggestion. At present, the country invests a lot of power in the oil industry in the Northwest, but the country actually consumes more than 98% of industrial resources in the economically comparatively small area. The developed east. If we increase investment in oil exploration in the east and strive to find several large oil fields in a relatively short period of time, then the east can form a situation where the industrial base and the resource base fly side by side.”

Chen Yun happily grabbed Huang Jiqing's hand: "Your suggestion is very important, and I will definitely report it to the central government." Soon, the Party Central Committee made a strategic deployment of the oil industry to move eastward with great historical significance.In many history books and documents about the new China's oil industry today, we can see these four words with specific meanings.In fact, Huang Jiqing, as the party involved in the strategic eastward shift of the oil industry, does not fully agree with this statement. His reason is that it is easy to make people feel that we have given up the development of the Northwest and other places for the sake of the discovery and development of the Daqing Oilfield. or make people misunderstand whether the state ignored or relaxed the oil survey and exploration work in other places before the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield.In fact, the so-called strategic eastward movement is because, based on Huang Jiqing's judgment that a super-large oil field may be discovered in the Songliao Basin, the state has consciously strengthened its human and material resources in favor of the eastern oil survey and exploration.Even when hundreds of thousands of people participated in the Daqing oilfield battle, the oil and gas survey and exploration work in Northwest, Southwest, North China, Jianghan and other places has never stopped or weakened.

However, since 1958, my country's oil industry, with the Songliao Plain as the main battlefield, has indeed begun to flourish.This is a grand battle worthy of a special book.Its investment and scale are much larger than Yumen, Karamay Oilfield, and all national key construction projects in the 1950s and 1960s! The first two regular troops to enter the Songliao Plain were still from the Ministry of Geology. At this moment, Han Jingxing was no longer the captain of a small team with only a few soldiers.His small team was soon named the 157th Geological Team of the Northeast Bureau of the Central Geological Department. Later, due to the gathering of people from all walks of life, it expanded to more than 1,200 people and was renamed the Songliao Petroleum Survey Brigade of the Ministry of Geology.

The second team was established according to Huang Jiqing and Xie Jiarong's proposition.Petroleum census is inseparable from geophysical prospecting.The full name of the so-called geophysical prospecting is geophysical prospecting, which is a high-tech field and crosses multiple disciplines.Its means include gravity, magnetism, electricity and artificial earthquake, and now there are more aeromagnetic, aerial survey and satellite remote sensing.Strengthening the geophysical prospecting work can avoid drilling many wronged wells.We all know that to drill an oil well in complex areas such as deserts and seas, the cost ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions, and as many as tens of millions to hundreds of millions.Therefore, geophysical prospecting is an indispensable and important force in oil exploration.For this reason, according to the suggestion of Huang Jiqing and others, the Ministry of Geology transferred two of the best backbone geophysical exploration teams at that time from the Northwest. The 403 Geophysical Exploration Team and the 112 Geophysical Exploration Team that had been in Songliao merged to form the Geological Changchun Geophysical Exploration Team.