BEIJING (Reuters) – The northern Chinese city of Tangshan, China’s top steel production hub, said on Wednesday it would lift a level 2 emergency response for pollution after air quality improved.
The municipal government had implemented the response on Feb. 26 due to a wave of heavy pollution, leading to production curbs at steel mills.
The most-traded May iron ore futures contract on the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) closed the daytime trading 2.53% lower this Monday because sintering capacity was reduced between 30% and 50% to meet government requirements.
(Reporting by Amy Lv and Dominique Patton in Beijing, Editing by Louise Heavens)