Heze of Shandong province becomes 1st city to ease home-purchase restrictions

This followed after the first round of nation-wide regulations on house purchase began in Sep 2016

No copper scrap imports approved in 1st batch for 2019

This indicated that China had banned the import of Category Seven copper

TCs of imported copper concentrate drop on week

Offers for imported copper concentrate TCs stood at $92-96/mt as of Friday Dec 14

No copper scrap imports approved in 26th batch

This kept the total approved this year at 999,700 mt, down some 66.7% from the overall volumes approved last year

Greater exports grow operating rate of domestic brass rod plants in Nov

Rates increased 2.21 percentage points from Oct to 68.82% in Nov

Passenger car sales dip for 6 straight months in Nov

CPCA data showed that about 2.02 million passenger cars were sold in Nov, down 18% from Nov 2017

Copper rod producers operate at higher rate of 76.85% in Nov

The rate was up 0.43 percentage point from Oct and up 4.4 percentage points from a year ago

Report: Trade dispute lowers Jan-Sep car imports by 4.2% YoY

China imported 847,000 automobiles in Jan-Sep, down 4.2% from the same period in 2017

New copper-gold deposit discovered in Anhui 

The deposit has some 660,000 mt of industrial grade copper resources and 84 mt of gold resources

Shenyang eyes 300,000 of NEV capacity by 2020

The city also plans to put 20,000 NEVs into use by 2020