The 2101 ferrosilicon contract price on ZCE closed at 6392 yuan per ton on December 11.

China's benchmark power coal price rose slightly during the past week.

LME nickel price trend on December 10th

Nickel price trend on December 10th

LME nickel price trend on December 9th

The country's steel imports surged 73.9 percent year-on-year to over 17 million tons in the Jan-Oct period. The growth was up 1.7 percentage points from the first three quarters, MIIT data showed.

The 2101 ferrosilicon contract price on ZCE closed at 6542 yuan per ton on December 10.

The first batch of steel rails made in China for use on Indonesia's Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway was shipped on Saturday from the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.