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Steel output in China shrinks in first half as demand stumbles
Published Wed, Jul 15, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Beijing
THE world's biggest steelmaker is in a funk.
Crude-steel production in China shrank 1.3 per cent to 410 million tonnes in the first half compared with the same period of 2014, according to the National Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday. June's output fell 0.8 per cent from a year ago.
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