Winter restriction still on for Tangshan steel mills

Despite a pandemic-hit 2020, steel mills in Tangshan city, the core steel producing site in North China’s Hebei province, will still be imposed on restrictive measures on their operations over the winter period of October-March 31 whenever necessary, a practice that the local government has adopted since 2017 to control local pollution.

On October 10, the Tangshan city government released a detailed guideline on the curbing measures among local industrial enterprises including steelmakers, coking plants, cement producers and glass manufacturers, all considered the serious pollution sources. In the document, 20 steel producers in Tangshan are divided into five categories, and other