{"id":20346,"date":"2026-10-27T07:23:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/?p=20346"},"modified":"2026-10-27T07:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:23:47","slug":"china-steel-production-falls-for-a-fourth-consecutive-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/china-steel-production-falls-for-a-fourth-consecutive-month\/","title":{"rendered":"China | Steel production falls for a fourth consecutive month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tse4.mm.bing.net\/th\/id\/OIP.1B0B1O1-Q8uFfKZ--a40ZQHaEI?r=0&amp;rs=1&amp;pid=ImgDetMain&amp;o=7&amp;rm=3\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:329px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">China\u2019s crude steel and hot-metal production declined month on month again in September.<br>Crude steel output reached 73.59 million tonnes, marginally higher year on year.<br>Hot-metal production was 65.34 million tonnes, down 1.4% from September 2025.<br>January\u2013September crude steel output fell 2.9% to 724.77 million tonnes.<br>Weak construction demand and squeezed margins continued to discourage higher operating rates.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18968\" style=\"width:117px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg 567w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-400x133.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-430x143.jpg 430w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-150x50.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s crude steel and hot-metal production declined month on month again in September.Crude steel output reached 73.59 million tonnes, marginally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iron","category-general"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Author","author_link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/author\/ghazizadeh\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/category\/iron\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Ferrious<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/category\/general\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"China\u2019s crude steel and hot-metal production declined month on month again in September.Crude steel output reached 73.59 million tonnes, marginally","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20347,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346\/revisions\/20347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}