Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics released 31 provinces and autonomous regions crude steel production data in 2020. The data show that Hebei crude steel production was 249.7695 million tons in 2020, ranked first.

According to relevant reports, the Asian steel market has been talking about the possibility of China cutting the steel export tax rebate from the current 13% to 9%, or abolishing it altogether.

China's central position in Global trade has been further strengthened in 2020. Although the epidemic has more or less affected the supply chain, China's major container hub ports continue to achieve record volume growth.

Early February 2021, the key steel enterprises produced 2154.43 million tons of crude steel, 19.1633 million tons of pig iron, 20.1773 million tons of steel.

The province afforested more than 2.6 million hectares of land from 2016 to 2020, raising its forest coverage from 31 percent to 35 percent, the report added.

During the period, the province also saw the number of national-level high-tech enterprises increase nearly five-fold from 1,628 to 9,400.

China's cross-industry and cross-field industrial internet platforms have won recognition from various sectors.

In the first ten days of February 2021, key iron and steel enterprises produced 21.5443 million tons of crude steel.