根据黄金协会的数字，去年中国的黄金消费需求总量达到259.6吨，较2005年上升了3%。

Last year, consumer demand for gold in China totalled 259.6 tons, up 3 percent from 2005, according to data from the gold council.

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以重工业为主推动能源消费激增，迫使中国加大了对煤炭的依赖，煤炭占到能源需求总量将近70%。

This sudden surge in energy consumption, driven mainly by heavy industry, forced China to increase its reliance on coal to almost 70 percent of its energy needs.

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在此书中，他写道在未来商业市场中，企业必须积极注意消费者的个性化需求，在原来不受到重视的销量小，种类多的产品或服务由于总量巨大的此类商品中，赚取得以超过主流产品的利润。

In it, he argued that the future of business is to sell less of more. The main premise is that collectively, things that are in rather low demand can amount to quite large volumes.

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