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China: Steel Industry

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Introduction

The development of China’s steel industry has been phenomenal in the past 30 years in terms of both the speed and the scale of the industry’s growth and development. By 2014, the Chinese crude steel output reached 823 million tonnes accounting for just above 50% of the total global steel outputs in that year (Song and Liu, 2012). The purposes of this chapter are to provide some historical background of the industry development including its rapid expansion over the reform period, discuss the key issues involved in the structural changes of the industry, and how the industry copes with the new challenges in China’s move towards economic rebalancing. This chapter consists of three sections accordingly. The first section provides an overview of the Chinese steel industry. The second section highlights the major achievements in China’s steel industry development during the reform period, and the third section points out the new challenges that the industry faces now and the...

Keywords

Steel Industry Steel Output Standard Coal Crude Steel Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Crawford School of Public PolicyAustralian National UniversityCanberraAustralia