The amount exceeded the previous record of 1.08 billion tons in 2017, said the General Administration of Customs.

Mid-February 2021, the key steel enterprises produced 22.8236 million tons of crude steel, 20.2097 million tons of pig iron, 21.2086 million tons of steel products.

Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics released 31 provinces and autonomous regions crude steel production data in 2020. The data show that Hebei crude steel production was 249.7695 million tons in 2020, ranked first.

Early February 2021, the key steel enterprises produced 2154.43 million tons of crude steel, 19.1633 million tons of pig iron, 20.1773 million tons of steel.

In the first ten days of February 2021, key iron and steel enterprises produced 21.5443 million tons of crude steel.

The company's average capacity utilisation was 96% during the month of January 2021.

India's crude steel production fell by 10.6 per cent to 99.6 million tonnes (MT) in 2020, according to the worldsteel.

In December 2020, U.S. steel mills shipped 7,049,785 net tons, a 4.4 percent increase from the 6,753,447 net tons shipped in the previous month.