China's steel industry at a crossroads as long winter looms

Market caught in perfect storm of COVID-related slowdowns, weak foreign demand

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China’s current steel production capacity is 1.2 billion tons a year, with annual consumption hovering around 1 billion tons.

LUO GUOPING, FAN RUOHONG and HAN WEI, Caixin

For China's steel industry -- the world's largest -- winter has arrived early and is shaping up to be one of the harshest in years, with a slowing economy and escalation of the property market crisis tanking demand and evaporating profits.

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