According to the latest information from the Futures Industry Association, the biggest growth in trading activity of gold future contracts in the last five years has come from China. On Monday, the FIA released its annual report on global trends in the trading of futures and options; Gold futures on the Shanghai Futures Exchange saw the biggest increase volume in the last five years as 20.09 million contracts were traded in 2013, an increase of 416 from the 3.9 million contracts traded in 2008.