The north China steel production hub of Handan city in Hebei province has implemented stricter production cuts at steel mills from Monday November 1 to November 7.
The move has been made is to mitigate weather-influenced air pollution over the period and comes just after the city finished implmenting steel production curbs in September and October to limit the crude steel output in line with China's policy to keep 2021 crude steel output to the same level seen in 2020.In the notice, issued to local government officials on November 1, the municipal air-pollution management department says that steel mills with blast furnaces that meet the government's most stringent...