Late January 2021, the key steel enterprises produced 23.9426 million tons of crude steel, 21.1232 million tons of pig iron, 24.1601 million tons of steel and 3.6557 million tons of coke.

Hebei Crude Steel Production increased in 2020.

The country produced 30.14mn t of crude stainless steel in 2020, up by 2.51pc from 2019.

China's steel sector registered output expansion last year, industrial data showed.

The output of steel reached 4.82 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 57.4%.

U.S. steel imports increase by 8.9% in December 2020

Japan's crude steel production increased 3.6% month-on-month in December last year

ArcelorMittal Ukrainian subsidiary Krivoy Rog's crude steel production declines in 2020