Is the Chinese government to help Venezuela develop atomic energy?
A- No. Venezuela does not need it. As I said, you have a well developed oil industry and vast reserves. We, for example, due to the increase in crude prices, have begun to develop new technologies to exploit coal, from which gasoline can be extracted. The only problem, for now, is cost. For us, finding energy supplies is a challenge. You do not have that problem, gasoline is given away here. For two dollars, you get up to seventy liters (18.5 gallons) of gas. Q- The so-called Heavy Strategic Fund, to which China will contribute US$4.0 billion of the total US$6.0 billion earmarked for it. What kind of development will this fund be used for? A- That has not been specified in detail. The terms of the agreement are general and state that its intention is to back bi-national cooperation projects. This could refer to a housing project, a railway project, or agricultural development. This agreement has nothing to do with oil. There are other agreements for that. From the Venezuelan side there
