China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has ordered the authorities in the city of Chongqing to eliminate backward
production capacities in eight industries in 2011. The capacity elimination targets in question include million mt of annual coke capacity, 50,000 mt of ferroalloy capacity, 1,000 mt of copper output capacity, 45,000 mt of lead
production capacity and 4.6 million mt of annual cement output capacity.