沙特阿拉伯是一个靠石油暴发起来的国家。在我们访问沙特期间,人们却经常对我们说,“我们不光有石油。”在我们访问了朱拜勒等地之后便理解了这句话的含义。朱拜勒市可以说是沙特凭借石油财力推行工业化计划的成果。朱拜勒市原是沙特东海岸的一个小渔村,现已成为世界上最大的石油化工生产基地,建有11家大型石化厂和许多辅助工厂,年产石化产品800多万吨。这里的工厂规模大,有世界上最大的乙烯厂和甲醇厂,生产工艺和技术堪称世界一流,产品大部出口国外,经营管理非常出色。沙特政府很早就意识到单纯依靠右油的经济将是脆弱的和短浅的,它于70年代提出了经济多样化的目标。从1976年实施第二个五年发展计划开始,政府便着手认真地抓基本建设、基础工业和石油 Saudi Arabia is a country hit by oil. During our visit to Saudi Arabia, people often told us that “we have not only oil,” we understood the meaning of the sentence after we visited places such as Jbeil. The city of Byblos can be said to be the result of Saudi Arabia’s industrialization program with oil and gas. Byblos, originally a small fishing village on the east coast of Saudi Arabia, has become the largest petrochemical production base in the world with 11 large-scale petrochemical plants and a number of auxiliary plants with an annual output of more than 8 million tons of petrochemical products. The factory here is large in scale with the largest ethylene plant and methanol plant in the world. The production technology and technology are world-class. Most of the products are exported abroad and the operation and management are excellent. The Saudi government realized very early that the economy that depends solely on right oil would be fragile and short-lived. It proposed the goal of economic diversification in the 1970s. Beginning with the implementation of the second five-year development plan in 1976, the government set out to seriously focus on capital construction, basic industries and petroleum