I have always been of the opinion that these growth rates and so called numbers are about as ficticious as you will ever see. Who puts the numbers out and based on what? The Chinese and based on whatever they want to tell you. What happens when their growth rate numbers go down? The rest of the world immediatley gets "the sky is falling" mentality, the price of everything from soup to nuts, or oil to copper if you like, drops like a stone and who benifits from that? Well, China! They get to buy everything at half the price and are probably laughing on the way out the door to put in another order. Actually copper is about half the price. Oil is even more of a discount. They did the same thing just a few years ago and it worked. Might as well try it again. What's to gain? Big stockpiles of everything they want at dirt cheap prices for when those dopes from the rest of the world wake up (again) and the price goes back up. Nothing like a good discount.