China exceeds US to become Saudi Arabia's top oil customer

Notable milestone:

By the end of 2009, the amount of the crude oil that China imported from Saudi Arabia exceeded 1 million barrels per day, while the US, the primary importer of the country's oil before, imported less than 1 million barrels per day for the first time since more than 20 years.

Full article here: http://business.globaltimes.cn/china-economy/2010-02/507404.html