Compared with 1978 production levels, cumulative losses in 1979 and 1980 exceeded 2.7 billion barrels, according to Reuters calculations, still greater than the losses recorded so far in the current crisis.
Shenzhen in 1979 was not merely a small town ... The city’s population grew from approximately 300,000 in 1979 to approximately 1 million in 1990, 7 million in 2000, 10 million in 2007, 13.5 million ...