In July this year, China's crude steel ouput amounted to 68.32 million mt, up 1.5 percent year on year, with this growth rate 0.3 percentage points lower than that recorded in June. During the given month, the average daily crude steel output in China came to 2.204 million mt, down 4.6 percent month on month.
In the January-July period of the current year, crude steel output in China amounted to 480.76 million mt, up 2.7 percent year on year, with this growth rate 0.3 percentage points lower than that recorded in the January-June period.