• FEATURE: MEE focuses on air quality in winter curbs Nov 12, 2019

  China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) released two notices on its website on November 12 regarding winter restrictions in the Fenwei Plains and the Yangtze River Delta area over October 1-March 31 2020, with steel, coal and coke industries mentioned, though the focus has been on PM2.5 reduction and waste emission than any detailed and specific instructions in tackling coking, blast furnaces, and sintering.

• Beijing issues latest industrial restructuring guidelines Nov 07, 2019

  After a six-year hiatus, China’s National Development and Reform Committee (NDRC), the country’s top economic planning body, has released its latest industrial restructuring guidelines, effective on January 1 2020, to direct the development of all the key 48 economic sectors including new energy, coal, steel, nonferrous metals and mining. The version, posted on the Committee’s

• Market divided on steel mills’ fate in 2019 winter Oct 17, 2019

  Chinese steel market participants are divided on whether steel mills in the “2+26” cities in North China will definitely face tougher restrictions from their local authorities in the upcoming winter over November-March 2020 just because Beijing has set a higher bar for air pollution reduction, targeting to reduce the average PM2.5 density by 4% on year for the 2019 winter from last year’s 3% reduction.

• Beijing: China “proud of its contribution” to global economy Jul 25, 2019

  China is proud of its contribution to the global economy which has seen the country’s growth account for nearly one-third of global growth over the past few years, according to Hua Chunying, the spokesperson of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

• Alumina supply tightens as Shanxi punishes polluters May 14, 2019

  Inspectors from the local government of North China’s Shanxi province have begun investigating complaints that alumina plants in the province are responsible for serious leaks from sludge dumps that are causing pollution. Thus, market sources fear alumina supplies could be significantly affected.

• China advancing on efficient, greener energy consumption Mar 05, 2019

  China has been progressing steadily in the shift towards eco-friendly energy consumption model by having further reduced coal proportion in energy consumption by 1.4 percentage points on year to 59%, according the latest statistics from China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

• China discloses 2019 economic measures, growth targets Mar 05, 2019

  China’s Premier Li Keqiang drafted a few economic development targets including a gross domestic product (GDP) growth at 6-6.5% and proposed a series of measures to support the domestic economic performance for 2019 when delivering his government report at the National People’s Congress annual session on March 5.

• Market bracing for impact of new curbs on “2+26” cities Sep 28, 2018

  Beijing’s shift of its focus onto detailed air pollution control guidelines for the “2+26” cities over October 1-March 31 2019, which differs from the specific and detailed blanket control over polluting industries including steel on their capacities,will by no meanssuggest “the loosening in control or lower severity in essence from the 2017 winter”, according

• FEATURE: Changzhou mills under pressure on emissions Jul 31, 2018

  Changzhou city in East China’s Jiangsu province is among the latest to join Beijing’s drive to improve air quality, with the city explicitly instructing 48 local steel mills to continue to cut their daily steel output beginning July 25 and lasting possibly until year’s end, an official from Changzhou City Environmental Protection Bureau confirmed on July 30.

• CONF: China's FeCr demand seen staying stable Jun 25, 2018

  China's ferrochrome market will enjoy steady growth in demand this year, though local smelters will continue to fierce competition from imports, according to Shi Wanli, Secretary General of China Ferroalloy Industry Association.

• Xiamen Tungsten working to reactivate W export license Jan 10, 2018

  Xiamen Tungsten is in the process of applying for its tungsten export license to be reactivated after it was temporarily frozen by China's Ministry of Commerce (MoC) for 2018-2019 exports because of two pending issues, a company official confirmed on January 8.