correct me if i am wrong....dongbei (north east economic region) <<liaoning, shenyang>> {besides exporting the greatest amount of girls to singapore for the sleaze trade}, is also the region that producers the most amount of coal in china...
therefore, if one is able to monitor the economic activities of shenyang...one can deduce the state of commodities (coal) health in china...fyi, in the recent years, the china central govt has pumped in tremendous amounts of money into dongbei; under the NorthEast Revitalisation program, to jumpstart the economy over there...
also, fyi...china declares it has ~USD1.95trillion in foreign reserves as of Mar09...