Ｗｈｅｒｅ Ｉｓ ｔｈｅ Ｄｅｓｔｉｎａｔｉｏｎ ｏｆ ｔｈｅ Ｏｎｃｅ Ｃｒａｚｙ Ｓｔｏｎｅ？

The 2009 iron ore price nego-tiation in Asia is under its way.Over the past 6 years，prices havecontinued to rise，especially 65-96.5％ up in the year 2008.Will the ironore price continue to rise，or encounter adecline? If it falls，how much will it drop?Will the model of the spot price index，ad-vocated by international mining giants inrecent years，overthrow the of the nearly30-year tradition of the annual long-termpricing mechanism completely? CanChina's iron and steel enterprises unifytheir minds in the negotiations and winback the discourse power? All of these areworthy of study and discussion.