亚洲开发银行的新研究认为，尽管中国在大宗商品市场上起着非常重要的作用 — — 比如，中国消费了全球大约一半的金属、煤炭和猪肉 — — 但并没有像人们广泛认为的那样起着主导作用。
As new research by the Asian Development Bank shows, while China plays a significant role in commodity markets – accounting for about half of global consumption of metals, coal, and pork, for example – it is not nearly as dominant as is widely believed.