Li Shubin, vice chairman of the China Association of Metalscrap Utilization (CAMU), stated on November 12 at the 2020 National Steel Scrap Conference held in Haikou, Hainan province, that China’s steel scrap consumption dropped by one percent or 1.58 million mt year on year to 155.2 million mt in the first nine months of the current year, with the scrap ratio (steel scrap consumed in China’s overall steelmaking) at 19.86%, 1.1 percentage points lower compared to the same period last year.
与此同时，在今年1月至9月期间，中国生产了781.59亿吨粗钢，同比增长4.5％。
工业和信息技术部（MIIT）表示，到2025年中国国内钢铁产量的钢材废料率将达到30％。