Wang Qinghai, chief executive of Shougang, one of China’s biggest state-owned mills, says one reason for slowing steel demand is that China is changing its economic development model. “The investment-led mode of economic development isn’t sustainable, so the government is actively lowering the growth rate . . . in order to create space for economic structural adjustment,” he said at a conference in Beijing on Saturday. That adjustment is a painful process, however, and Mr Wang summarises the outlook for the steel industry as “huge production capacity, a bleak market, and meagre profit”.
via China’s steel mills braced for slowdown – FT.com.
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