In August this year, China produced 62.61 million mt of pig iron, 74.59 million mt of crude steel and 96.76 million mt of finished steel, indicating respective increases of 3.8 percent, 8.7 percent and 0.5 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on September 14.
In the January-August period of the current year, China produced 486.70 million mt of pig iron, 566.41 million mt of crude steel and 745.18 million mt of finished steel, up 3.6 percent, 5.6 percent and 1.2 percent year on year, respectively.