中国与中亚的能源_双轨_合作_英文_.docx

China-Central Asia “Twin-Track”Energy CooperationXu HaiyanChina’s large-scale investment in Kazakh oil and gas resourcedevelopment ushered in a new era of China-Kazakhstanbilateral trade in the late 1990s. This lifted cooperation betweenChina and the five countries in Central Asia to a new level, opening the China-Central Asia energy channel and bringing the “Silk Road economic belt” into being. Central Asia and China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, areas which are both abundant in renewable energy, should fully utilize their geopolitical advantages as neighbors by means of Xinjiang’s rapid growth. Projecting a twin-track mechanism of developing both renewable and non-renewable energy resources is of great significance to both China and Central Asia.I. Concerns on Sustainability of China-CentralChannelAsia EnergyChina’s investment in Central Asia’s oil and gasbroadenedtheprospectsforbilateraleconomicdevelopmentcooperation,expanding both sides’ energy channels and rejuvenating the historicSilk Road. Sino-Kazakh bilateral trade offers a good example ofXu Haiyan is Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies,Fudan University.CHINA INTERNATIONAL STUDIES . November/December 2013126China-Central Asia “Twin-Track” Energy Cooperationthis. Kazakh crude oil exports to China totaled 11,036,400 tonsin 2011, worth $8.602 billion, accounting for 52.8% of exports to China during the whole year. Petroleum and oil extracted from bitumen, sulfur and other byproducts from oil and gas processing totaled 3,414,800 tons, worth $1.261 billion, accounting for 7.5 % of exports to China in that year. The volume of natural uranium and uranium compounds totaled 10,900 tons, worth $1.288 billion, accounting for 7.9 % of the exports. The above statistics show that the energy resources for 68.2 % of Kazakhstan’s total exports to China. Other resources, such as refined copper, metal products and iron ore, totaled 9,850,800 tons, worth $3.783 bil