Now, nearly 90 pairs of heavy-haul trains make round trips along the Daqin Railway every day, said the China Railway Taiyuan Group Co., Ltd.

Australian resources firm BHP and Japanese trading house Mitsubishi plan to sell the 12mn t/yr Blackwater and 2.5mn t/yr Daunia mines from their BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) joint venture in Queensland.

North China's Hebei province saw its foreign trade grow 3.9 percent year-on-year to 562.9 billion yuan ($82.61 billion) in 2022, according to local customs.

India remained a net importer of steel for the fourth consecutive month in January, with exports climbing to a seven-month high on increasing international demand.

In Gansu's Wuwei city, a 500,000 mu (33,333 hectares) photovoltaic power base is under construction, with a total installed capacity of 15 million kilowatts.

Ferroalloy output down 12.4% in 2022 in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia.

This was a 9.8% increase from the 2,262,000 permit tons recorded in December and a 12.7% increase from the December final imports total of 2,203,000.

US steelmaker Nucor kept its plate prices flat last week in its latest price announcement for the products.