In June this year, China produced 61.68 million mt of pig iron and 97.57 million mt of finished steel, indicating respective increases of 2.2 percent and 0.7 percent year on year, while it produced 73.23 million mt of crude steel, up 5.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on July 17.
In the January-June period of the current year, China produced 362.56 million mt of pig iron, 419.75 million mt of crude steel and 551.55 million mt of finished steel, up 3.4 percent, 4.6 percent and 1.1 percent year on year, respectively.