According to the statistics of China SteelAssociation, the average daily output of crude steel in key steel enterprisesin mid-March 2019 was 1,902,300 tons, an increase of 18,000 tons from theprevious month, an increase of 0.95%. By the end of the year, the steelinventories of key steel enterprises were 13.8525 million tons, a decrease of687,500 tons in the same period of the previous month, a decrease of 4.72%.