According to the data of China Steel Association, in the middle of February 2021, the key statistics show that the steel enterprises produced 21.21 million tons of steel. The average daily output of steel in these ten days of mid-February was 2.12 million tons, with a month-on-month growth of 2.82% and a year-on-year growth of 25.30%.

In these ten days, the steel inventory of key steel enterprises was 17.55 million tons, an increase of 3.08 million tons or 21.28% over the previous ten day period, an increase of 5.93 million tons or 51.0% over the beginning of the year, and a decrease of 3.79 million tons or 17.78% over the same period of last year.