In the January-February period this year, the value-added industrial output of the ferrous metal smelting and rolling sector in China recorded a year-on-year rise of 5.7 percent, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
In the first two months of the year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 5.9 percent year on year. In February alone, the overall value-added industrial output increased by 0.51 percent month on month.
In the January-February period, the value-added industrial outputs in the mining and manufacturing sectors in China rose by 4.3 percent and by 6.9 percent year on year, respectively.