NBS: China's 2025 pig iron production falls 3% YoY

China's pig iron production throughout 2025 totalled 836 million tonnes, lower by 3% compared with the previous year, according to the latest data released by the country's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday morning.

The 3% decline in the pig iron ore output was slower than the 4.4% on-year drop recorded for the country's crude steel production last year, Mysteel Global noted. For December alone, China's pig iron output plunged 9.9% from the previous year to 60.7 million tonnes, a larger decrease compared with