China's production of refined copper rises 4.8% on year in Jul: NBS

SHANGHAI, Aug 16 (SMM) – China produced 801,000 mt of refined copper in July, up 4.8% from a year ago, after a year-over-year increase of 11.8% in June, showed data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday August 16. 

This brought output in the first seven months of the year to 5.35 million mt, up 5.5% from the same period last year.

NBS data also showed that China’s output of copper materials grew 2.2% from a year ago and stood at 1.69 million mt in July, slowing from a rise of 13.4% in June. 

Production of copper materials in January-July posted 11.29 million mt, up 8.9% year on year.