As of the end of the year the Shanghai Exchange has seen 2,596 tonnes in withdrawals of gold bullion.
Total deliveries since its inception in 2009 are 10,510 tonnes.
"what should you do to avoid being an idiot or a swine? Merely this: You should do something great, you should lay aside all the foolishness of a more of less long existence, you should become resigned to the fact that you will seem ridiculous to a race of janitors and bureaucrats if you are to enter the service of Splendor. Then you will know what it means to be the friend of God. The friend of God!"
Léon Bloy