新闻来源：www.bloomberg.com
原文地址：China’s Steel Crisis Sends August Output to Lowest Since 2017
新闻日期：2024-09-14
中国钢铁产量8月降幅逾10%，创下2017年以来最低水平。
国家统计局数据显示，8月的钢铁产量同比减少10.4%，降至7790万吨，这是自2017年以来最弱的八月份。今年前8个月，中国钢铁总产量下降了3.3%，为6914万吨。
中国钢铁需求在近二十多年的增长中受益于快速工业化和城市化进程，但今年夏季建筑活动的持续低迷使得形势进一步恶化。
9月初，一些钢铁价格开始回升，铁矿石期货也从每吨低于90美元的低位反弹，周度上涨。中国经济疲软——包括房地产市场的衰退和消费者信心不足——也影响了石油需求，在最近几天中国的一些行业会议上曾多次提及。
8月中国石油加工能力同比下降至5907万吨。
原文摘要：
China’s steel production fell by more than 10% from a year earlier in August as the industry reeled from low prices and a damaging slump in demand.Last month was a particularly brutal period for the world’s biggest steel sector, with top supplier warning of increasingly bleak conditions. As mills fought deepening losses on every ton of steel they made, more of them chose to shut down furnaces.Production of was down 10.4% from a year earlier to 77.9 million tons, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. That’s the weakest August for any year since 2017, and deepens this year’s overall decline. Total for the first 8 months of the year were 3.3% lower at 691.4 million tons.China’s steel demand is falling after more than two decades of growth powered by the nation’s rapid industrialization and urbanization. This year, and especially this summer, a continued slump in construction activity has worsened the situation. Still, there have been modest signs of a pick-up so far in September, with some steel prices flicking higher and iron ore futures recovering from a slump below $90 a ton to post a weekly gain.China’s struggling economy — from a battered property market to weak consumer confidence — is also weighing on oil demand, as repeatedly at a major industry gathering in Singapore in recent days.Crude throughput, a gauge to show productivity in the world’s biggest oil refining market, year-on-year to 59.07 million tons in August.
