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 | A Chinese man stands beside a petrol pump with a sign, with a sign that reads 'temporarily out of supply' in Chinese, at a petrol station in Shanghai August 16, 2005. Closed service stations, fuel rationing and hours-long gas queues plaguing China's southern manufacturing heartland of Guangdong are piling pressure on the country's oil majors to boost supply into the loss-making market. click to open  |  | A Chinese motorist drives past signs in Chinese characters that read 'temporarily out of supply' at a gasoline station in Shanghai August 16, 2005. Closed service stations, fuel rationing and hours-long gas queues plaguing China's southern manufacturing heartland of Guangdong are piling pressure on the country's oil majors to boost supply into the loss-making market. click to open |  | Cars line up to buy petrol at a petrol station in Dongguan, south China's Guangdong province, August 15, 2005. Closed service stations, fuel rationing and hours-long gas queues plaguing China's southern manufacturing heartland of Guangdong are piling pressure on the country's oil majors to boost supply into the loss-making market. Picture taken August 15,2005. click to open |  | Chinese motorists line up to buy petrol at a petrol station in Dongguan, south China's Guangdong province August 15, 2005. Closed service stations, fuel rationing and hours-long gas queues plaguing China's southern manufacturing heartland of Guangdong are piling pressure on the country's oil majors to boost supply into the loss-making market. Current supply problems in Guangdong are spreading north towards China's financial heart of Shanghai. click to open |  | Chinese motorists line up near a sign, that reads 'no petrol' in Chinese, at a petrol station in Dongguan, south China's Guangdong province, August 15, 2005. Closed service stations, fuel rationing and hours-long gas queues plaguing China's southern manufacturing heartland of Guangdong are piling pressure on the country's oil majors to boost supply into the loss-making market. click to open |  | Chinese workers carry a barrel of waste oil at the Liaohe oilfield in Panjin, northeast China's Liaoning province, August 12, 2005. The latest statistics shows that China's consumption of petroleum and finished oil products surged 38.2 percent year on year in July, while the sales of automobiles grew 18.2 percent, said National Bureau of Statistics on Friday. click to open |  | A typified Chinese industrial worker in the mid 1960s, such as Wang Jinxi (center) -- an oil driller of Daqing Oil Field in northestern Heilongjiang Province. click to open |
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