I've got for you. The total amount of concrete used between 2011 and 2013 in Japan far exceeded. I've got the numbers here. It looks like 4.5 gigatons was what the United States used for 100 years between 1901 and 2000. And 6.6 was used by China for just two years. That sound right to you? About close to 50% of the economy's construction, less than half of the economy's slightly less than half of its construction. Is that also right? I think that that's an exaggeration. I would put construction and real estate at about 20 to maximum 25% of the economy. It's not really fair to count all building materials because they also go into ships and automobiles and other sorts of things. But it's very significant. As for the amount of cement, yeah, I've heard that as well. It is phenomenal. It's taken a very severe toll on China's natural environment. Eventually that will end, but one hopes it will end sooner rather than later. On the thing to bring it back a little bit, you were talking about (25/57)
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