The net result is non-Chinese producers must absorb more than 100 per cent of the contraction in demand from non-Chinese consumers.

最终结果是，非中国生产商承受的需求收缩，必须超过非中国消费者的需求收缩。

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Figures released last week confirmed that the last half of 2008 saw the most savage contraction in demand for motor vehicles since the second world war.

自二次世界大战以来，2008年后半年见证了最为惨重的机动车辆需求紧缩。上周公布的数据证实了这一点。

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Price of a product:- The law states that when a price of a product increases and other factors remain the same, there will be a contraction in demand of product and vice versa.

产品价格：法律规定，当一个产品的价格增加并且其他因素保持不变的情况下，产品的需求将会减少，反之亦然。

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The global contraction in demand is now forcing the Kazakh government, which has long been criticised for its over-reliance on oil and other commodities, to seek ways of diversifying its economy.

BBC: Turbulence for the Kazakh economy

"It's almost impossible for China to engineer enough of an increase in domestic consumption to make up for the contraction in demand that we're seeing in Europe and the United States, " said Michael Pettis, who teaches economics at Peking University.

CNN: U.S.-China relations in focus at 'G-2' summit

And this week the IMF's chief economist said that the contraction in global demand could exceed anything we've seen since the Great Depression itself.

NPR: Economy Is Not Off Life-Support Yet