In October this year, China produced 60.02 million mt of pig iron and 72.36 million mt of crude steel, indicating respective increases of 2.3 percent and6.1 percent year on year, while it produced 91.79 million mt of finished steel, down 1.6 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on November 14.
In the January-October period of the current year, China produced 602.97 million mt of pig iron, 709.50 million mt of crude steel and 902.73 million mt of finished steel, up 2.7 percent, 6.1 percent and 1.1 percent year on year, respectively.