In December last year, China produced 54.72 million mt of pig iron and 67.05 million mt of finished steel, down 4.4 percent and 1.1 percent year on year, respectively, while producing 67.05 million mt of crude steel, increasing by 1.8 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on January 18.
In 2017, China produced 710.76 million mt of pig iron, 831.73 million mt of crude steel and 1.04818 billion mt of finished steel, up 1.8 percent, 5.7 percent and 0.8 percent year on year, respectively.