Royal Dutch Shell Co., Ltd. is the second largest oil company in the world, and Asian Thermal Oil Company is a joint venture established in China by Royal Dutch Oil Company and British Shell Company on 1903. Asian Huoyou Company and Mobil Huoyou Company (now American Standard Oil Company) began to compete in China in the early days of Shanghai's opening, which made China enter the oil age.

Asian advertising of the year

Asian advertising of the year

"? Christian missionaries inadvertently introduced foreign goods into Chinese mainland. Missionaries, regardless of difficulties, plagues and even life-threatening, traveled all over the hinterland to save the souls of China people who did not believe in God. Wherever they went, kerosene, foreign cloth, clocks and watches, soap, etc. carried with them also went to the mainland. Ordinary people seem to be more interested in these things than the gospel. These foreign products have broadened China people's horizons and aroused people's yearning for material civilization. The missionary's original purpose was to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, but he inadvertently opened the market for foreign goods. "

In this way, Asian oil companies have rapidly expanded their business in China in the past decade, and their oil sales account for a quarter of the China market. And quickly became an oil company as famous as Mobil and Texaco, and Mobil oil company occupied the whole China market. Because of the rapid development of business volume, Asia Cargo Friends Company also rented the building of the original Maibian Foreign Firm at the Bund 1 (it started with the Yangtze River shipping trade, and the Bund 1 and No.2 were the industries of Maibian Foreign Firm). Because Asia is famous abroad, it is more famous than the landlord Maibian Foreign Firm, and the Bund 1 building has gradually changed its name to Asia Building.

At present, the Asia Building located at the Bund 1 is Jiushi Art Museum. Monet Impression Exhibition is being held during the National Day, and the original of Monet's famous painting Sunrise is being displayed here. What is our impression of the Asian building?

"The so-called comprador class is between domestic businessmen and foreign businessmen in China. Foreign businessmen transport goods to trading ports such as Shanghai and Tianjin, and these goods are resold from big trading ports to towns and villages through comprador. Compradors can make a lot of money by changing hands, so more and more people eat this line of work. More enterprising and luckier people have joined the new industry of buying and selling foreign goods directly or indirectly. Some people get rich, others have plenty of food and clothing. Those who are not so lucky can fall behind, some people still farm, while others stay in the old industry to make a living. The prospect of the field was limited, and the old industry plummeted under foreign competition, so the old economic system soon began to collapse. As a result, a large group of people inevitably lost the opportunity to make a living. These unfortunate people, on the one hand, are jealous of the new nouveau riche, on the other hand, they are dissatisfied with the old industry, or they have lost their old jobs at all, and the result is to take risks. "

"Few people can find the importance of details as a whole. When we casually play with matches or appreciate kerosene lamps, no one can imagine that we are playing with fire, and this single spark finally makes the whole China Zhu Tian. Matches and kerosene are signs before a volcano erupts. After the eruption of this "volcano", it first destroyed the peace and tranquility of villages such as Jiangcun, and finally shocked the whole of China. "

Jiang Menglin, president of Peking University, wrote in the West Tide.

When Watt invented the steam engine, he probably didn't know that he lit the torch of the first industrial revolution in the world. When nikola tesla invented alternating current, he certainly didn't expect to ignite the blazing fire of the industrial revolution again.

When a new technological era opens, whether you want to accept it or not, you will eventually be caught by the torrent of the times, or lose everything, or stand in the wind to welcome your new era.

China people's first gas station

1924, Mobil Oil Company opened its first gas station at No.96 Guangdong Road in the concession. At that time, there were three gas stations in Shanghai: Mobil, Texaco and Asia. These three companies set up 108 gas stations in Shanghai, when the total number of cars in Shanghai was more than 4,000.

The model of the tanker at that time

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1948 10 the first state-run gas station in China was established in Suzhou south road 198 (Sichuan Luqiao). This state-run gas station covers an area of about 470 square meters and has two electric pumps, 1 car jacking machine and 1 2000 gallon underground oil tank. I also played a torch with the trademark "Guoguang" brand kerosene. But its business volume only accounts for 1 1% of the Shanghai market. After 1949, the gas station was transformed into the "first gas station" that is still in use today.