China's National Bureau of Statistics has stated that Chinese domestic
crude steel production in June this year totaled 60.21 million mt, up 0.6 percent year on year. In addition, average daily
crude steel production in
China in June amounted to 2.007 million mt, up 31,800 mt compared to May this year. Meanwhile,
China's domestic
crude steel production in the first half of the current year totaled 357.20 million mt, up 1.8 percent year on year.
In June, domestic pig iron and finished steel outputs in
China reached 55.72 million mt and 84.47 million mt respectively, up 1.1 percent and 6.7 percent on year-on-year basis. In the January-June period, domestic pig iron and finished steel outputs totaled 334.04 million mt and 467.44 million mt, up 2.9 percent and 6.1 percent year on year.