Hebei province, one of the areas with high steel production capacity in China, has curtailed its production capacity by 14pc. To control surplus capacity and air pollution, the state authority had implemented an action plan in the previous year.
| China’s top 10 steel producing provinces | ||||
| Sr. No. | Province | April 20 | April 19 | Change % |
| 1 | Hebei | 78.11mn mt | 79.68mn mt | -1.97 |
| 2 | Jiangsu | 36.14mn mt | 38.90mn mt | -7 |
| 3 | Liaoning | 24.07mn mt | 24mn mt | 0.29 |
| 4 | Shandong | 24.95mn mt | 24.66mn mt | 1.17 |
| 5 | Shanxi | 4.31mn mt | 4.42mn mt | 2.55 |
| 6 | Anhui | 11.45mn mt | 9.91mn mt | 15.53 |
| 7 | Hubei | 9.68mn mt | 10.04mn mt | -3.58 |
| 8 | Guangxi | 10.13mn mt | 5.61mn mt | 80.57 |
| 9 | Gunagdong | 9.66mn mt | 9.59mn mt | 0.7 |
| 10 | Inner Mongolia | 8.70mn mt | 7.71mn mt | 12.84 |