China's Shanxi province saw its foreign trade volume reach 204.1 billion yuan (about $32 billion) from January to November this year, up 58.1 percent year-on-year, according to local customs.

By the end of last month, the debt-to-asset ratio of China's central SOEs came in at 65.1 percent.

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In 2020, crude steel output rose by 5.2 percent year on year to exceed 1.05 billion tonnes, according to the association.

Dinson, a subsidiary of China's Tsingshan Holding Group Company Limited, is the constructor of the iron and steel plant, which is scheduled for commissioning next year.

Steel exports jumped 31.3 percent from a year earlier to 53.02 million tonnes during the period.

The November output represented 6.1-percent growth from the same period in 2019, according to the NBS.

A total of 104 coal mines in Shanxi have applied for increasing their production capacity this year.