• FEATURE-2: Beijing endeavouring to boost China economy Apr 03, 2020

  Click here for part 1 of the feature How low China’s 2020 GDP growth will dip to? Before the sudden breakout of COVID-19, it was widely anticipated that China’s GDP growth would not slow down too much from the 6.1% growth achieved in 2019, may be at around 5.8-6% for 2020. The pandemic,

• FEATURE-1: Beijing endeavouring to boost China economy Apr 03, 2020

  China has been injecting funding via various means such as government bonds for specific use, taxation reliefs, and subsidizing rentals and others to help support and revitalize the national economy after a stalling economy since late January for almost two months during the fight against the COVID-19.

• FEATURE: China’s property developers in deep water Feb 21, 2020

  China’s 81 property enterprises have filed for bankruptcy since the start of 2020, according to the official data from the People’s Court Announcement, as their promotional efforts including discounts have been futile in selling off their housing stocks so far when people dare not even step out of the door most of the time since the nationwide outbreak of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (NCP) in latest January.

• FEATURE: China grants 1st batch of $142 bln special bonds Nov 29, 2019

  Earlier than usual, China’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) disclosed on November 27 to grant China's local authorities a total of Yuan 1 trillion ($142.4 billion) quota for the issuance of government bonds for specific uses, which is part of efforts to stabilize the national economy in 2020, clarifying that this is just “part of the whole parcel”.

• 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

• FEATURE: China’s crude steel output grows ‘uncontrollably’ Jun 21, 2019

  China’s crude steel production found another burst of energy during April and May – after leaping by nearly 10% over January-March – to refresh new output highs and in turn, fuel market concerns about oversupply, according to a report in China Metallurgical News on June 19, according to a report in China Metallurgical News on June 19.

• FEATURE: Relocation - boon or bane for China steelworks? Apr 29, 2019

  China wants more of its steelmakers to locate at the coastal areas - not just for their health but for everyone else’s. Begun tentatively a decade ago when land was needed for special events – the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and Expo 2010 in Shanghai, to name but two – the relocation of steelmakers from city areas to coastal regions is now a heavily-promoted industrial guidance upheld by many local and provincial governments. Less widely publicized are the merits for the involved steel mills to get to know their new neighbours.

• FEATURE: China favors greener auto, white goods Apr 23, 2019

  China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country’s top economic planning body, is formulating policies to promote nationwide consumption of eco-friendly and high intelligence auto, white goods and electronics products, according to Xinhua reports on April 18 and April 21.

• FEATURE: China’s VAT cuts no guarantee to lower prices Mar 19, 2019

  China’s decision to reduce the value-added tax on manufacturers to 13% on April 1 from the prevalent 16% may not definitely lead to lower prices of ferrous products including iron ore and steel or downstream products such as auto, market sources said on Monday and Tuesday.

• FEATURE: China’s steel mills applaud possible VAT cuts Mar 07, 2019

  China’s steel industry is in general excited at the news on Beijing’s mulling cutting the value-added tax (VAT) on the domestic manufacturers and small and micro enterprises to 13% from the present 16%, possibly in 2019, expecting the measure to reduce their production costs, helping them enhance their competitiveness especially in the global market, according to market sources on March 5 and 6.

• FEATURE: Smog warning puts China mills under scrutiny Feb 20, 2019

  With severe air pollution expected to envelop large swathes of China this week and next, industries identified as major sources of pollution such as steel mills will likely come under close monitoring by local governments ready to slap emergency restrictions on production, steel sector sources warned Tuesday. But though stern official announcements and excited Chinese media reports have raised anxiety levels among affected enterprises up a few notches, steel market watchers counsel calm, maintaining that disruptions to production are unlikely to be any more severe than those the industry has already endured so far this winter.

• Feature: Tangshan, Handan far apart on winter curbs Nov 16, 2018

  The start of production restrictions for winter among Chinese steelmakers and their raw materials processors has revealed a vast difference in approach to the issue among steelmakers and local authorities in the country’s two largest steelmaking centres, Tangshan and Handan in North China’s Hebei province. But for the 200-odd steelmakers and merchant coke producers the cities host, the differences in policy execution by their city governments may be rendered irrelevant by nature if this week’s pollution alert emergency becomes a worrying regularity.

• FEATURE: “Differentiated” winter curbs not music to all Sep 13, 2018

  Chinese steel mills’ reaction varied to the possible “differentiated” curbing measures among them during the 2018 winter months, with some applauding the fairer touch while others concerned about the loopholes when inquired by Mysteel on Wednesday. China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment called for the local authorities at a government meeting

• 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.

• FEATURE: ASEAN now a new hotspot for steel investments Jul 03, 2018

  Many overseas investors have already or are exploring steel investment opportunities in the ASEAN region as many ASEAN countries are with great market potential with their fast-growing economies, Mysteel understands from the market sources.

• FEATURE: Baosteel ending stainless presence in Shanghai Jun 06, 2018

  Baosteel Stainless Steel Co, a subsidiary of China Baowu Group, has permanently shut down its carbon and stainless slab mills on June 1 in Baoshan district, East China's Shanghai, after 17 years of operations, moving the capacity to South China, a company official confirmed on June 5.