On April 16, 2024, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Ferrous Metal Industry Chain Forum took place in Lecong, Guangdong, drawing nearly 300 steel industry representatives from the region.

On December 22, the Hebei Provincial People's Government held the "Hebei Province Deeply Promotes Environmental Protection Performance A-level Work Conference in Key Industries" in Shijiazhuang. Luo Tiejun, vice president of the China Iron and Steel Industry Association, was invited to attend the meeting and delivered a speech.

The Cornerstone Plan 2.0 poses a question on how iron resources should adapt in terms of variety and form to the low-carbon transformation trend in the steel production process in the future.

On October 24, the China Iron and Steel Industry Association held a third quarter information conference.

He Wenbo, secretary of the party committee and executive chairman of the China Iron and Steel Industry Association, recently said that for the steel industry, there are two things (two basic measures) which are creation of a new mechanism for capacity management and optimization of new policies for joint reorganization.

Imports of steel scrap totalled 230,000 mt in the first four months of 2023, up 204% YoY. With the liberalisation of imports of raw materials for secondary steel from January 1, 2021, steel scrap imports have been increasing steadily. Yet, China's steel scrap imports are at an extremely low level mainly because there are only five customs commodity codes corresponding to the types of steel scrap that can be imported. The import standards for specification and impurity content are stringent and some details are not clearly defined.

Imports of steel scrap totalled 166,000 mt in the first three months of 2023, up 230% YoY. With the liberalisation of imports of raw materials for secondary steel from January 1, 2021, scrap steel imports have been increasing steadily. Yet, China's steel scrap imports are at an extremely low level mainly because there are only five customs commodity codes corresponding to the types of steel scrap that can be imported. The import standards for specification and impurity content are stringent and some details are not clearly defined.

Luo Tiejun, vice president of the China Iron and Steel Industry Association, said that in 2022, China's steel production using EAFs accounted for 9.7% of the total crude steel output, which is far lower than the global average of 30%. In the process of carbon peak and carbon neutralisation, the development of steelmaking using EAFs is an inevitable trend to achieve green and low-carbon development.

On April 24, the China Iron and Steel Industry Association held a symposium on the economic operation of some steel companies in the first quarter in Anshan Iron and Steel. The participants believed that the current international situation is complex and changeable, the global economic recovery is slow, and the domestic macro economy has begun to stabilise.

According to China Iron and Steel Industry Association official Weibo news, on April 26, the CISA held an information conference for the first quarter of 2023 in Beijing to introduce the operation of the steel industry.