China's production of coke, crude steel, pig iron and finished steel products continued year-on-year growths during the first ten months of this year, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

China produced 410.01 million tonnes of coke during January-October, rising 2.9% year on year. The output in October stood at 41.54 million tonnes, up 5.8% on the year and 0.2% from the previous month. Daily coke production was calculated at 1.34 million tonnes in October, down 3.0% on the month, data showed.

Crude steel output was registered at 874.70 million tonnes over January-October, a year-on-year increase of 1.4%. The October figure came in at 79.09 million tonnes, down 1.8% year on year and 3.7% from the previous month. The daily output averaged 2.55 million tonnes last month, down 6.8% from September.

The production of pig iron was 744.75 million tonnes during the first ten months, rising 2.3% from a year ago. Production in October was registered at 69.19 million tonnes, down 2.8% year on year and 3.3% from a month ago. The average output in October was 2.23 million tonnes, down 6.4% from the month prior.

Finished steel production climbed 5.7% year on year to 1.14 billion tonnes over January-October. Output in October stood at 113.71 million tonnes, 3.0% higher from a year earlier yet down 3.5% compared to the preceding month. The figure put the average daily output to 3.67 million tonnes, a 6.6% drop month on month, NBS data showed.

(Writing by Riley Liang  Editing by Emma Yang)
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