According to the Commission of Industry and Information Technology of
China's Jiangxi Province, in the January-March period of the current year the sales revenue of the steel industry in Hukou county in the city of Jiujiang in Jiangxi Province amounted to RMB 4.607 billion ($720 million), down 6.47 percent year on year, while a net loss of RMB 178 million ($27.9 million) was recorded.