cycles began in 2000 as China joined the World Trade Organization. China was also in the beginning of their boom as industry and expansion took off. Workers moved into cities as emerging industries took off and offered a lots of new jobs and opportunities. In 2008 when the Great Recession hit it put a halt onto the supercycle as GDP's across the world tanked leaving many economies in recessions. The next or the fifth supercycle could arrive as the world enters the final phases of the COVID-19 pandemic and starts to build massive clean energy infrastructure in view of the commodity price increase. See also 2000s commodities boom Commercial off-the-shelf or "commercially available off-the-shelf" (COTS) Commodification Commodity (Marxism) Commodity currency Commodity fetishism Commodity market risk and values Commodity money Commodity price shocks Commodity price index List of traded commodities Sample grade Standardization Trade Notes External links Pricing in Electricity Markets: A Mean Reverting Jump Diffusion Model with Seasonality Collection of current and historical commodities data from Quandl United Nations Human Rights Council Conceptual problems in commodity regulation Business intelligence terms