In November this year, China produced 57.23 million mt of pig iron, 66.29 million mt of crude steel and 95.40 million mt of finished steel, indicating respective increases of 5.3 percent, 5.0 percent and 1.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
In the January-November period of the current year, China produced 643.26 million mt of pig iron, 738.94 million mt of crude steel and 1.04344 billion mt of finished steel, up 0.4 percent, up 1.1 percent and increasing by 2.4 year on year, respectively.