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提起科威特,人们总是会把它同石油联系在一起。确实,石油给这个在本世纪四十年代前还是一个以畜牧业和渔业为主的落后的农业国家,是带来了巨大的变化! 科威特的石油资源十分丰富。据已探明的储量表明,在幅员面积不到一万七千平方公里的科威特境内,蕴藏着七百多亿桶的石油,难怪人们把它称之为是“浮在石油湖上的国家”。1946年科威特正式把石油作为商业性的出口后,石油收入一直是该国经济的支柱。特别是七十年代初,由于石油提价、与外国公司改变利润分配的比例和石油产量的增加,科威特的石油美元逐年激增,人均收入由原来世界最低跃居为世界上最高的国家。科威特公民享受着世界上最优厚的福利待遇,他们不少人已成为“千万富翁”和“亿万富翁”。
When it comes to Kuwait, people always associate it with oil. Indeed, the oil has brought tremendous change to this backward agrarian country dominated by livestock husbandry and fisheries by the 1940s! Kuwait has very rich oil resources. Proved reserves indicate that more than 70 billion barrels of oil are contained in Kuwait, which covers an area of less than 17,000 square kilometers. No wonder people call it “a country floating on a petroleum lake.” After Kuwait formally introduced oil as a commercial export in 1946, oil revenues have been the pillars of the country’s economy. Especially in the early 1970s, Kuwait’s oil dollar surged every year due to the increase in oil prices, the change in the distribution of profits with foreign companies and the increase in oil production, and the per capita income has risen from the lowest level in the world to the highest in the world. Kuwaiti citizens enjoy the best benefits in the world, many of whom have become “millionaires” and “billionaires.”