On September 2, it was sponsored by the Metallurgical Industry Information Standards Research Institute and the Resources and Environment Research Branch of the China National Institute of Standardization, undertaken by the National Steel Standardization Technical Committee and the National Hydrogen Energy Standardization Technical Committee, and co-organized by the World Iron and Steel Development Research Institute and Hegang Group Co., Ltd. The establishment meeting of the Joint Working Group on Hydrogen Metallurgy Standards was held in Chongli, Zhangjiakou. Jiang Wei, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of China Iron and Steel Association and chairman of the National Steel Standardization Technical Committee, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.
Jiang Wei said in his speech that leaders, entrepreneurs, academicians, experts, and scholars who are concerned and committed to the global hydrogen metallurgy industry gathered together today to focus on the grand blueprint of the industry's low-carbon development, and exchange, discuss and deploy how to break through hydrogen metallurgy technology and technology. Through standardization, it is very timely, very important and milestone to help the green and low-carbon transformation and high-quality development of the steel industry. As the most internationalized large-scale steel conglomerate in my country, HBIS has acquired JCDecaux in 2014, then acquired Saigang in 2016, and then assumed the post of chairman of the World Iron and Steel Association in 2019, including HBIS Macedonia Medium Plate Company, HBIS South Africa Mining industry, HBIS Australia Willara Iron Mine, etc. are well-received in the industry, and HBIS internationalization has become a successful example of leading the industry. Today, HBIS initiated and hosted the first World Hydrogen Metallurgy Technology Exchange Conference, which fully demonstrated HBIS's international strategic vision and global responsibility.
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It is estimated that China's crude steel output will continue to recover in late August. In the second half of the year, the estimated output of crude steel in the country was 30.338 million tons, and the average daily output was 2.758 million tons, an increase of 2.16% from the middle of August and a decrease of 3.89% from the same period last year. In August, the national crude steel output was 83.449 million tons, and the average daily output was 2.6919 million tons, an increase of 57,500 tons or 2.18% month-on-month, and a year-on-year decrease of 7.74%. In terms of varieties, the price index of long products decreased by 1.33% month-on-month and 22.93% year-on-year, while the price index of flat products decreased by 0.04% month-on-month and 29.34% year-on-year.

. The overall trend of global steel consumption
According to data released by the World Steel Association (WSA), global steel consumption will reach 1.834 billion tons in 2021, an increase of 48.2 million tons or 2.7% year-on-year. Among them, China's 952 million tons, accounting for 51.9% of the global proportion, decreased by 54.7 million tons or 5.4% year-on-year; 882 million tons were excluded from countries and regions other than China, an increase of 103 million tons or 13.2% year-on-year. The double-digit growth in international markets contrasted sharply with the downward trend in China. It is predicted that the global steel consumption in 2022 will be 1.881 billion tons, an increase of only 0.4% year-on-year, far below the level of the previous year. Judging from the situation in the past 30 years, the engine driving the growth of global steel consumption has rapidly shifted to China, but the growth rate has changed from a deepening dependence on China to a trend of gradual loosening.
. The changing characteristics of steel trade volume in the global market
Affected by the new crown epidemic and geopolitical conflicts, the global steel trade volume has shown a further downward trend. According to the statistics of the World Steel Association (WSA), the global steel export volume (including finished and semi-finished steel products, the same below) will reach 400 million tons in 2020, a decrease of 40 million tons from the previous year and the fourth consecutive year of decline; The proportion dropped from 31.3% in 2016 to 22.9%, the lowest proportion in the past 30 years, and a cumulative drop of 8.4 percentage points.