Export prices for Chinese cold-rolled coil and hot-dipped galvanized coil were unchanged over the past week.

Billet and bloom exports totaled 2.96 million tonnes over the six months, an 88% rise year-on-year.

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The coal mine's annual production capacity will be 3 million tonnes.

Shanxi has been very clear its goal to lower its annual production of coal to 1 billion tons by 2020.

The two projects, one located in Shanxi Province and the other in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Adhering to green and intelligent development is fundamental to the healthy development of the steel industry in China, he said.

However, iron ore imports during the period declined 2.4 percent to 784 million tons.