China’s Top-7 Crude Steel Producing Provinces (in Jan-Nov’22)

China’s top seven crude steel-making provinces showed a marginal -1% y-o-y drop in production over January-November, 2022, as per data maintained with SteelMint. The volume in the first 11 months of 2022 dropped to 935 million tonnes (mnt) from 948 mnt in January-November, 2021. Amongst the seven provinces, Hebei was the largest producer at 196.20 mnt. However, production volume dropped -4% in the period under review from 204 mnt seen in the corresponding period last year (CPLY). Hebei also experienced the highest drop amongst the provinces.