The news spread quickly and sparked heated discussions.
Domestically, some people who wanted to immigrate to Europe and America immediately expressed their incomprehension.
"Are these former Soviet citizens stupid? With their qualifications, it would be easy for them to apply for American citizenship, but they actually applied for Chinese citizenship. It's really hard to understand."
"Yes, it is said that as long as you are white, can speak English, and have made achievements in a certain professional field, you can easily apply for US citizenship."
"Sigh... I can't even get a US green card, I get rejected every time. Those Soviets were really wasting their talents!"
"..."
In the 1990s, many Chinese people tried every means to immigrate to the United States. In the capital, many people sold their ancestral courtyard houses and went to the United States to work hard for decades, serving tea and water, washing dishes, and being humble and subservient to others.
Twenty or thirty years later, these people return home in glory, worth millions or even tens of millions. But when they see that their courtyard house is worth over 100 million, they instantly cry themselves to sleep in the bathroom.
By this time, China was already incredibly prosperous and powerful, with enormous potential for commercial development and unprecedented national confidence. People were proud to be Chinese. At this point, those who had acquired foreign citizenship wanted to regain their Chinese citizenship—how shameless of them all…
When the country is poor, you fly away; when the country is rich, you come to enjoy it.
Fortunately, Zhao Ye wasn't the one who made the laws; otherwise, he certainly wouldn't allow people who had acquired foreign citizenship to easily regain Chinese citizenship. To regain Chinese citizenship, one must follow the rules and make significant contributions, such as donating to the country or contributing their technical expertise.
Internationally, seeing millions of Soviet citizens acquire Chinese citizenship, they are actually afraid and resentful that the Wujiang Group is too shameless for poaching so many Soviet talents, resulting in a significant decrease in Soviet talents immigrating to Western countries, while China has become increasingly powerful because of the large number of Soviet talents it still has.
At this time, the polar bear nation.
When the news that former Soviet citizens could obtain Chinese citizenship reached this place, it immediately caused a sensation.
Only a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its main successor, the polar bear state, was implementing "shock therapy" to revive its economy. However, this backfired spectacularly, resulting in a genuine "shock" – nationwide shortages of supplies, a dramatic devaluation of the ruble, and a situation even worse than before the Soviet Union's collapse.
Upon learning that China was granting citizenship to former Soviet citizens, countless people from the "Polar Bear" region (a term referring to people from the Soviet Union) longed to travel to China.
Under the propaganda of Wujiang Group, and in the letters from relatives and friends, the lives of Chinese people are portrayed as beautiful and desirable.
Meanwhile, Wujiang Group continued to poach talent from northern countries.
Digging and digging in the big garden.
There are things to learn every day.
The Russian nation, however, is preoccupied with its own problems and has lost a great deal of its cultural heritage.
Having just finished dealing with the issue of Soviet employees gaining citizenship, Zhao Ye immediately began working on another important matter.
That is the Zhongxiong crude oil pipeline.
To avoid interference from Mongolia, the China-Buryat oil pipeline does not pass through Mongolia. Instead, it starts from the Angarsk oil field in Irkutsk Oblast, Buryatia, and heads south into the Republic of Buryatia. After bypassing Lake Baikal, it heads east through Chita Oblast and into China, reaching Daqing. The pipeline is approximately 2,260 kilometers long and cost about US$2.5 billion.
This is the "An-Da Line" crude oil pipeline!
That year, China transformed from an oil exporter into an oil importer, and its future demand for oil is projected to be extremely high.
Therefore, the government is also making every effort to facilitate this matter.
Life was tough for the Polar Bear Nation, and in order to improve its domestic economic situation, the Polar Bear Nation was also eager to sell its resources, so the two sides hit it off immediately.
The issue of the route had been discussed for quite some time, but with the help of the Wujiang Group, the negotiations were much faster than in the previous life.
However, after the route was determined, the Russian state stated that they did not have the funds to build the crude oil pipeline.
To resolve this issue, the Wujiang Group, China, and the Arctic Bear Nation held multiple rounds of negotiations.
However, no matter how much they talked, the Russian state always insisted that it had no money and that it just wanted to get something for nothing.
If Zhao Ye hadn't known the importance of this crude oil pipeline, he certainly wouldn't have tolerated the other party.
Just as the negotiations were about to reach a stalemate.
Zhao Ye suggested that a loan could be provided to the Arctic Bear Nation to build an oil pipeline, and the loan could then be repaid with the oil.
Originally, the cooperation had been basically agreed upon, but suddenly, some people in the Northern Bear Country expressed concern that if the "Angarsk-Dalian Railway" passed through the southern end of Lake Baikal, it could potentially pollute this lake, which is said to account for one-fifth of the world's freshwater.
Moreover, since the Arctic Bear country is building oil pipelines, it should not only consider China, but also other Asian countries such as South Korea and Japan, in order to maximize the Arctic Bear country's national interests.
Upon hearing this news, Zhao Ye thought to himself, "Damn it, a Cheng Yaojin has suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Japan must be interfering!"
Japan, like China, is a resource-poor country and previously relied on buying oil from around the world. However, compared to China, Japan, as the world's second-largest economy and a member of the Western world, obviously has much easier access to Middle Eastern oil. Nevertheless, it also faces the challenge of diversifying its oil import sources to ensure security.
Capital State Guesthouse.
Zhao Ye looked rather grim as he glanced at the polar bear representative, feeling utterly dejected.
In its previous life, the Zhongxiong crude oil pipeline project was only successful after 15 years of arduous negotiations.
Japan must have offered extremely favorable terms to Russia in order to purchase oil.
For Russia, if Japan and South Korea were to participate, its crude oil could fetch a higher price.
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