According to the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on January 17, in 2021, China's crude steel output will be 1,032.79 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 3.0%, and the reduction of crude steel output proposed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in early 2021 will be completed as scheduled; pig iron output will be 868.57 million tons, a year-on-year decrease. 4.3%; steel output was 1,336.67 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 0.6%; coke output was 464.46 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 2.2%.

In December 2021, China's crude steel output was 86.19 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 6.8%, the average daily output was 2.780 million tons, a month-on-month increase of 20.3%; pig iron output was 72.1 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 5.4%, and the average daily output was 232.6 tons, a month-on-month increase of 13.0%. %; steel output was 113.55 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 5.2%, average daily output was 3.663 million tons, a month-on-month increase of 8.8%; coke output was 36 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 10.7%.

According to information released by the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2021, the national industrial capacity utilization rate will be 77.5%, an increase of 3.0 percentage points over the previous year. In the fourth quarter of 2021, the national industrial capacity utilization rate was 77.4%, down 0.6 percentage points from the same period of the previous year.