China's Hebei steel output climbs 7 pct in Dec

26/01/2014 09:26 AST

Reuters reported that crude steel output from China's top steelmaking province of Hebei rose 7.4% in December from the previous month but the figure was 5.2% lower than 2012 as Beijing's anti pollution drive starts to bite.

According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, Hebei produced 12.3 million tonnes of crude steel in the final month of 2013 amounting to 19.7% of the national total up from 18.8% in November but down from 25.2% for the whole of the previous year.

The province traditionally produces around a quarter of China's total steel output, but its share tailed off significantly in the last two months of 2013, largely as a result of a government campaign to tackle sources of air pollution in northern China. Over the whole of the year, Hebei produced 188.5 million tonnes, amounting to 24.2% of the total.

Hebei's ill regulated steel industry has been identified as one of the major sources of smog in Beijing and other large northern Chinese cities, and the campaign to cut capacity in the region runs the risk of shifting pollution to other regions, including Shanghai.


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