China becomes world's largest gold consumer

China overtook India last year as the world's biggest consumer of the yellow metal as retail investors bought unwanted gold from global institutional investors.

Chinese consumers became the world's largest purchasers of gold last year, overtaking India as they snapped up the yellow metal being sold off in droves by global institutional investors.

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