The report released by the China Commodity Research Core showed that in 2011, without exception, the top ten commodities with the highest external dependence in our country all exceeded 40%, including soybeans, natural rubber and other varieties whose external dependence exceeded 60%, showing the high risk of the current reliance of China's economic growth on commodities. The data showed that in 2011, the domestic commodity with the highest external dependence was palm oil, reaching 100%, with the annual import volume reaching nearly 6 million tons. The well-known industry publication Oil World estimated that from October 2011 to September 2012, the demand for palm oil in the Chinese market would likely increase by another 750,000 tons, reaching 6.7 million tons. Meanwhile, in the rankings, the external dependence of soybeans, natural rubber, and sulfur resources all exceeded 70%. Among them, the second-ranked soybean had an external dependence of 79%, and the external dependence of natural rubber, which has attributes as an agricultural product, industrial raw material, and strategic material, also reached 77%. In addition, the external dependence of crude oil and iron ore reached 56.5% and 50.8%, respectively, both exceeding the 50% dividing line. The total import data showed that energy products such as iron ore and crude oil, along with steel, became the main forces of imports. Among the total external dependence of the 20 products with higher external dependence, iron ore accounted for more than 50% of the total. Adding energy products such as crude oil, the two almost contributed nearly 90% of the total external dependence of the 20 products, showing the huge "weight" of iron ore and energy products in domestic economic development.