The municipal government of Tangshan, China's largest steel production hub in North China's Hebei Province, has issued a work plan lately aimed at enhancing the air quality of the city and charting a clear path to green development for the steel industry.
Accordingly, by 2025, Tangshan will accelerate the integration and upgrading of converters below 100 mt capacity, while the crude steel outputs produced by electric furnaces will reach four percent of the overall output. No new blast furnace-based capacities are to be allowed unless replacing old ones.
These measures are aimed at lowering fine particulate matter PM 2.5 by 20 percent by 2025.
In 2023, Tangshan produced 150 million mt of crude steel, accounting for half of Hebei Province’s crude steel output, while accounting for six percent of China’s crude steel output.
