the supplied line graph depicts the oil production and consumption rates in millions of barrels per day in china from 1982 to 2006.
Overall, the highest number of barrels were found in consumption of oil in 2006. while, the lowest number of barrels was observed in both production and consumption in 1982.
As it is explicitely observed that the figures of oil production and consumption were remain equal in the beginning of the period at around 2 million barrels per day. Surprisingly, the rate of oil production climbed gently to 3 million barrels per day and stayed stable to 1990 after the 8 years the amount of oil production increased slightly to approximately 3.5 million barrels at the end of the given duration.
on the other hand, the rate of oil consumption witnessed stability until 1900. although, there was a significant rise in the amount of oil consumption and reached at just over 6 million barrels towards the end of the span.