China's Commodities Appetite In Pictures

A construction worker erects scaffolding on a new bridge along the Nairobi-Thika highway project, under construction near Kenya's capital Nairobi, September 13, 2010. The road, built by China Wuyi, Sinohydro and Shengeli Engineering Construction group, is

An aerial view of an Equinox copper mine in Lumwana, Zambia, which a Chinese company has expressed interest in buying. (Reuters image)

A worker inspects timber quality in a wood yard in Yuanjiang, in China's central Hunan Province. China has become the world's leading importer of wood from developing countries such as Indonesia and Papua New Guinea where illegal logging is common. Activi

A Greenpeace activist uses a chainsaw to cut down a wooden wall symbolizing Indonesian forests during a demonstration against deforestation in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Indonesian students look at a wooden wall symbolizing Indonesian forests cut down by Greenpeace activists during a demonstration against deforestation in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Waste-water pools outside the Petrodar oil facility in Paloich, southern Sudan. Six government officials from the south's oil producing region flew to China earlier in fall 2010, and analysts say China is trying to improve ties with the south and maintai

Employees from the local Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau collect samples of coal imported from South Africa at a port in Rizhao, Shandong province, February 24, 2010. China imported 4.758 million tonnes of coking coal in January 2010. REUTERS/

Chinese contractors walk past Congolese workers as they prepare to welcome a delegation from China Railways Engineering Company (CREC) in Kinshasa March 29, 2010. CREC is involved in the construction of the capital's main road.C hina pays for many contrac

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (L) and his Kenyan counterpart Moses Wetangula address a news conference in Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 2010. Business deals are often preceded by high-level political talks.

Riping Ouyang (R), a Chinese investor, watches as a local worker stacks bags of seeds in a sesame factory in Senegal's capital Dakar, February 2009. REUTERS/Normand Blouin

A Chinese engineer supervises at a construction site in Sudan's capital Khartoum. China - Africa trade has risen 10-fold since 2000 to nearly $107 billion last year. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallh

A laborer walks in front a poster at the construction site of the Africa pavilion at the 2010 World Expo site in Shanghai. (Reuters/China Daily)