Turkmenistan, a small Central Asian country with no sense of existence, is located deep on the continent, 80% of the country is covered by vast desert, and the geographical environment can be described as very harsh.
Saparmurat Atajevich Niyazov, born in 1940 in Turkmenistan to a poor military family, was born into a "mule and horse aristocracy" from an early age, his parents died before he was an adult, and he was forced to live in an orphanage.
However, the road is invincible, and Niyazov, who grew up in the orphanage, showed his talent as a question-maker at a very young age, coupled with the diligence that was tortured by life since childhood, and finally successfully admitted to the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and became a glorious quasi-Bolshevik.
After entering the university, Niyazov continued to play his true colors as a problem-maker, completing his doctorate with sparks and lightning all the way, and became the standard profession of hardcore ruthless people, engineer.
After entering the workplace, Niyazov once again exerted his super work ability, three years at a step, constantly moving forward, and finally succeeded in becoming the top leader of his hometown Turkmenistan in 1985.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Turkmen became independent, and Niyazov naturally became the first president of the independent country.
At that time, Turkmenistan was in front of him, but it was a small, backward country with high debts and poverty.
Faced with this situation, Niyazov quickly calmed the chaotic situation in the country at that time, and on the other hand, actively sought the support of the international community to develop the domestic energy economy, and finally put the country on the right track.
Under the leadership of Niyazov for more than 20 years, Turkmenistan has actively played its own domestic strengths, vigorously developed an energy economy based on oil and gas, and successfully built itself into a rich and peaceful beautiful country.
What did Niyazov, a beloved leader of Turkmenistan, do during his tenure? How have these policies changed Turkmenistan?
As a small Central Asian country, Turkmenistan has a land area of 491,200 square kilometers, which is only about one-third of our Xinjiang Autonomous Region, and its population is only 6 million, which is not as large as the population of a large city on the mainland.
Not to mention that most of its territory is still full of yellow sand, it is simply a country forgotten by God.
However, it is such a country, but its territory has a large amount of oil and natural gas reserves, according to relevant data Turkmenistan has proven oil reserves of more than 20 billion tons, natural gas reserves of nearly 25 trillion cubic meters, in addition to coal, iodine, non-ferrous metals and other resources, can be described as an absolute energy power.
Faced with this situation, Niyazov gave full play to the advantages of his country, vigorously developed domestic energy, and danced well in the international community, never offending any country, and established a good international image.
And it is precisely this image that makes its energy business in full swing and has become a typical representative of muffled wealth in the international community.
After the energy business made money, Niyazov began to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction in the country, building a large number of roads, railways and oil pipelines, which was convenient for people's lives and conducive to the transportation and development of his energy industry.
In diplomacy, Niyazov also actively implements his basic policy of kindness to people, and relations between Russia and the United States are good.
In addition, he actively fought for the status of "permanent neutral" for his country, and was finally elected at the 50th session of the General Assembly in 1995, becoming one of the few neutral countries in the world.
This status undoubtedly avoids Turkmenistan's involvement in major power disputes, can maintain its strategic autonomy in the dangerous international environment, and can also allow it to develop its domestic economy with peace of mind, creating conditions for economic take-off.
In the past decade, Turkmenistan's economy has been unique among the five Central Asian countries, maintaining an ultra-high economic growth rate of more than 6% almost every year.
On December 21, 2006, Niyazov died of a heart attack at work, and the Turkish people who heard the news spontaneously held a large-scale commemorative event to express their remembrance of the outstanding leader who led the territory of Kumenistan to prosperity.
As a unique rich country in Central Asia, what is the situation in Turkmenistan's country today? What kind of close interaction does it have with the mainland?
Today, Turkmenistan is a relatively closed and wealthy small country, most of its people do not know much about the outside world, but they are at ease to live their own small life, after all, its domestic welfare is sound, competition pressure and prices are not high, and the people can basically live a comfortable life without worrying about food and clothing.
In addition, Niyazov, who led them to take off, also set up many strange laws in the country.
For example, in today's Turkmenistan, people are not allowed to take pictures, and they don't know how this law should be enforced, and dance, theater and listening to the radio in the car are prohibited, which is a strange Islamic country.
Turkmenistan has a long relationship with China, such as the famous sweat and blood BMW in history, which was produced here, and its development with the mainland after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1991 has also been frequent.
Like the recently concluded China-Central Asia summit, Turkmenistan is one of them.
In 1999, in order to better develop its own energy business, Turkmenistan planned to build an oil and gas pipeline across the Caspian Sea to the Caucasus, and had already found the cooperation of American oil and gas companies, but when the time came, it was released by the Yankees for various reasons.
At this critical moment, the mainland extended a helping hand to Turkmenistan in a timely manner.
In 2007, the mainland formally signed a natural gas procurement contract with Turkmenistan, and promised Turkey to help them build their own domestic oil and gas facilities, and for this purpose, it also provided them with a loan of 8.1 billion US dollars, which can be described as a demonstration of the responsibility and friendly attitude of a major country.
With the help of the mainland, the originally planned China-Turkey oil and gas pipeline was officially completed, and the mainland also helped train a large number of new Turkish oil and gas professionals, which provided great help for their energy independence.
Now that the mainland has fully repaid its loans in the past, it has stated that it will continue to strengthen its relations with the mainland, and in January this year, it upgraded its comprehensive strategic partnership with the mainland and become an important node country of the mainland in the "Belt and Road".