China’s steel output accelerates in June
China's National Statistics Bureau disclosed that the country's crude steel
production rose 33 percent year on year to 28.5474 million tons in June.
For the first half of the year, crude steel
production reached 164.86 million tons, up 28.3 percent from a year earlier.
Meanwhile,
China's
pig iron production amounted to 27.2 million tons last month, an increase of 40.7 percent a year ago.
Pig iron production in the first six months of the year rose 33.1 percent year on year to 154.99 million tons.
China's finished steel
production rose 29.5 percent year on year to 30.36 million tons in June. Year-to-date
production reached 173.11 million tons in the first six months, up 25.9 percent from a year earlier.