Chinese steel sector’s capacity usage rate at 79.3 percent in Q1

Thursday, 17 April 2025 09:30:14 (GMT+3)   |   Shanghai

The capacity utilization rate of the ferrous metal smelting, rolling and processing industry in China was at 79.3 percent in the January-March period of the current year, up 2.0 percentage points year on year, according to China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Total industrial capacity utilization in China in the January-March period was at 74.1 percent, up 0.5 percentage points compared to the same period last year.


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