中国古代为什么没有产生现代石油工业

Why No Modern Petroleum Industry Appearing in Ancient China

中国自汉朝以来,就开始了对石油、天然气的认识和利用,并发展出了一系列领先于世界水平的实用技术。但中国古代为什么没有产生现代石油工业?通过比较中国与西方对石油的认识方式的不同,否定了市场需求和政治制度这些外部性因素,指出由于缺少对事物根本原因的追问精神,从而构建不出系统的科学原理,是中国古代没有产生现代石油工业的根本原因。

Since Han dynasty, China has begun to know and use the petroleum and natural gas, and also has developed a series of advanced practical technologies in the world. But why did no modern petroleum industry appear in ancient China？ Through the comparison of Chinese and western thinking ways for petroleum, these outside reasons like market demands and political systems are negated totally. Then it is pointed out that the root cause why there was no modern petroleum industry appearing in ancient China is lacking the spirit of inquiry for the root causes of matters and thus being unable to construct the systematic scientific principle.