The line graph below shows the oil production and consumption in China between 1965 and 2025. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph below shows the oil production and consumption in China between 1965 and 2025.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
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The line diagram illustrates data related to petroleum production and consumption per day in a period of 70 years, between 1965 and 2025 in China.
Overall
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, it is appreciated that the amount of carburant spent is greater than produced.
First,
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in 1965, 2 million barrels of oil were obtained and spent at the same time. For the following 10 years, the manufacturing increased by 1 million a day
then
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levelled off.
On the other hand
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, consumers maintained the quote of units used a day until 1985, when it grew from 2 to 3,
then
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it gradually climbed reaching again the production rate in 1995.
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, it never stops augmenting a million per year,
as a result
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, nowadays fuel consumption doubles the number of barrels used. To summarize, the crude industry in China stabilised its production,
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the population kept asking for more as the years went by.
Consequently
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, the country had to import more petroleum in order to satisfy demand.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • oil production
  • oil consumption
  • gradual increase
  • surpass
  • overtake
  • reliance on imports
  • disparity
  • steady rise
  • growing gap
  • significant
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