In the January-February period of the current year, China produced 113.31 million mt of pig iron, down 1.7 percent year on year, while also producing 136.82 million mt of crude steel and 159.03 million mt of finished steel, rising by 5.9 percent and 4.6 percent year on year, respectively, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on March 14.