The December coal output, up 3.7% on month, reached a record high since the NBS data was available in 1989, with daily average output also hitting a record high of 12.4 million tonnes, largely thanks to the Chinese government's measures to i...
In 2021, China's finished steel exports increased 24.6% on year to 66.9 million tonnes, and finished steel imports totaled 14.3 million tonnes, down 29.5% on year, according to the data released by the country's General Administration of Cus...
Over January-December, privately-owned enterprises remained the dominant contributor to the country's FAI with Yuan 30.8 trillion, up 7% on year and accounting for 56.5% of the total, and the country's tertiary industry attracted the most fu...
China's iron ore imports in 2021 totaled 1.12 billion tonnes, down 3.9% on year from 2020' new record, among which 86.1 million tonnes were for December alone, according to the data released by the country's General Administration of Customs...
The data officially marked that China had achieved its goal of keeping national crude steel output of 2021 lower than 2020, though by November, there was already little doubt in that given an on-year fall of 2.6% in crude steel production ov...
In terms of U.S. dollar, China's foreign trade value in 2021 exceeded the $6 trillion threshold for the first time, with the total jumping by 30% on year, among which exports surged by 29.9% on year and imports soared by 30.1% on year, accor...
The guidelines are in consideration of the few development plans finalized by the country's central government for the steel industry until 2035 and among the specific targets are that 80% of the country's steel capacity needs to complete t...
Last year, China's total coal and lignite import value surged 64.1% on year to reach Yuan 231.9 billion ($35.9 billion), or much faster than the growth in tonnage, reflecting the skyrocketing prices of global coal to China over the same peri...
For January, China's Consumer Price Index (CPI) went up 0.9% on year, or up 0.4% on month, while Producer Price Index (PPI) surged 9.1% on year though it eased 0.2% on month, according to the data released by the country's National Bureau of...
China removed the tax rebates on 169 steel items - covering all steel products for exports - in two rounds on May 1 and August 1 2021 respectively, which resulted in steel exports beginning a steady decline from June last year. The centra...
