CISA data showed their member companies have seen a 32 percent drop in profits.

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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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.

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

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