China Iron and Steel Association: in the first ten days of April, the crude steel output of steel mills increased by 2.96% over the previous month of 22.2396 million tons.

[CISA: in the first ten days of April, the output of crude steel in steel enterprises increased by 2.96% over the previous month of 22.2396 million tons.] according to the statistics of CISA, in early April, steel enterprises produced a total of 22.2396 million tons of crude steel, 19.6371 million tons of pig iron and 20.8821 million tons of steel. Of this total, crude steel produced 2.224 million tons per day, up 2.96 percent from the previous month; pig iron produced 1.9637 million tons per day, up 5.65 percent from the previous month; and steel products produced 2.0882 million tons per day, down 1.34 percent from the previous month.