Xu Xiaojie: Director of World Energy at the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(2009-present).Researcher at China's former petroleum minstry and China National Petroleum Corp(1983-2009).
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The Sino--African cooperation mode on oil and gas should not be denigrated
BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Mahamadou Issoufou, the president of Niger, recently spoke highly of Sino-Nigerien oil cooperation. He claimed that China had helped Niger to become an oil producing country. Oil products not only meet domestic demand but are also partly exported, which plays a remarkable role in promoting Niger’s economic development.
January 10, 2013
Energy BRICS: Towards a new cooperation framework
The last week saw the success of the fourth BRICS Summit in New Dehli. However, the range of issues and potential for development of the BRICS economies go far beyond the existing meeting mechanisms. It is the fact that the BRICS countries are of critical importance to both supply and demand fundamentals of energy markets globally. Each one of the BRICS economies enjoys a critical position and capacity for influence on the global energy scene.
September 11, 2012