China's environment ministry hails steel capacity scrapping success

Addressing a press conference held by China's State Council Information Office on September 25, Huang Runqiu, the country's ecology and environment minister, declared that cumulatively, China has eliminated about 300 million tonnes/year of outdated steel production capacity and 1 billion t/y of outdated coal production capacity.

Huang was cataloguing the strides China has made in environmental protection and resources conservation, and although he declined to give a time frame for the achievements in paring surplus steel and coal capacity, eight years seems to be basis. Back in early February 2016, China's central government began introducing policies