An increase in the relative price of oil raises the costs of energy-intensive production, making some plant and machinery unprofitable.

石油相对价格的上涨会提高能源密集型产品的成本，这使得一些工厂和机械行业无利可图。

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Oil fuels transportation and farm machinery, and natural gas is the basis of synthetic nitrogen production (prices have tripled since 2002).

粮食运输以及农业机器都需要石油，合成氮肥(2002年以来价格已经增长2倍)生产离不开天然气。

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China encourages the import of industrial commodities, such as oil, base metals and even quality fabrics and industrial machinery-provided goods made with them are sent abroad.

中国鼓励进口工业原材料，如石油、基础金属，甚至是高品质的纺织品和工业机械—用来生产出口产品。

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The fear is that China's strong imports of machinery, oil and ores in the early months of this year may simply have gone into one end of a production pipeline, out of which are now emerging excessive volumes of steel and heavy-industrial products that it cannot sell at home.

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Drilling further into the activity breakdown, the strongest upside contribution to IP again came from auto production, machinery, and oil and gas refining, which grew monthly by 4.7%, 5.2% and 5.7%, respectively.

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Additionally, because many of the technologies that harness these energies are built using oil dependent machinery, there will be an additional push to develop technology for this purpose as well.

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