High Growth Reported for the China Steel Industry

Business Wire, Jan 29, 2008

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China Steel Industry Report, 2007-2008

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From Jan to Aug, 2007, assets in steel industry totaled RMB2.674 trillion, up 23.83% year on year. Investment in the industry had a clear rise. From Jan to Aug, 2007, sales revenue of the entire industry rose 36.15% year on year, showing a fast growth of sales revenue. Profits from Januray to August in 2007 reached RMB124.51 billion, compared with RMB78.85 billion in the same period of 2006. The profits grew at a marvelous speed, which was far higher than sales revenue. This indicates that steel industry has entered its golden period of developing by leaps and jumps.

In Aug 2007, domestic output of crude steel reached 41.58 million tons, up 13.6% year on year, which declined a little compared to 14.5% recorded in July 2007. Domestic output of steel products was 48.273 million tons, up 23.7% year on year, which was almost the same to 23.9% posted in July 2007. As for the overall situation of steel industry in August, there was no obvious drop in output of crude steel and steel products, however, the growth rate of production month on month had a big decline, compared to the earlier period of the year.

Look at the specific growth of each of the following companies. From January to August 2007, Baosteel produced 18.95 million tons of crude steel, up 6.5% on year, ranking the first China, followed by the Anshan and Benxi Steel Group, which produced 15.62 million tons of crude steel, up 4.8% on year. Among the top 12 steel producers, Shanxi Taigang Stainess Steel Co. produced 6.12 million tons of crude steel, up 67.9% on year, but its growth rate was the fastest in the industry.

Top 10 Steel Companies interms of Crude Steel Output in China in Jan.- Aug. 2007

The years of 2007 to 2008 are a period of fast expansion of steel plate production capacity in China. Demand and supply are basically balanced in China steel market. China's steel industry in the future may develop with following characteristics.

Iron ore price will still be on the upward trend, but the growth rate of price will slow down;

Policy risks will increase and the pressure of environment protection will be increasingly havier to companies;

Export pressure will also grow;

As required by the national policy, China will create more large steel conglomerates, which weigh on the development of middle-small steel producers.

China Steel Industry Report, 2007-2008

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1. Operating Environment of Steel in China

1.1 Policy Environment

1.1.1 Influence from Interest Rate Adjustment on Steel Market

1.1.1.1 Negative Influence

1.1.1.2 Interest Rate Hike Influences Market Demand

1.1.1.3 Interest Rate Hike Adds Up the Management Cost

1.1.1.4 Interest Rate Hike Influences Import and Export

1.1.1.5 Interest Rate Hike Reduces Price Drop Space

1.1.1.6 Interest Rate Hike Influences the Inside of Steel Operator

1.1.2. Analysis of Export Rebates Policy

1.1.2.1 Export Rebates Brings Impacts to Steel Industry

1.1.2.2 Influence Brought by Export Rebates on Laigang Group

1.1.3 Analysis of Eleventh-Five Year Plan on China Steel Industry

1.1.3.1 Eleventh-Five Year Plan on Steel

1.1.3.2 Hot Topics during the Eleventh-Five Year Plan Period

1.1.3.3 Supply and Demand in Steel Market

1.2 Operating in Steel Industry

1.2.1 Analysis of the Industry Concentration

1.2.1.1 Crude Steel

1.2.1.2 Iron Ore

1.2.1.3 Analysis of Key Companies

1.2.1.4 Analysis of Industry Concentration

1.2.2 Price Indicators in Steel Market

1.2.2.1 Building Steel Market

1.2.2.2 Steel Sheets Market

1.2.2.3 Steel Pipes Market

1.2.3 Demand and Supply in Steel Market

1.2.4 Steel Price Trends

1.2.4.1 Steel Price Will Continuously Rise

1.2.4.2 Factors Contribute to Price Hike

1.2.4.3 Price Hiking Space

2. Economic Benefits of China Steel Industry

2.1 Overall Situation of China Steel Industry

2.1.1 Overall Economic Benefits Situation

2.1.2 Overall Steel Companies Situation

2.1.3 Overall Management Situation

2.1.3.1 Link Relative Ratio

2.1.3.2 Profit Making Ability

2.1.3.3 Operating Ability

2.1.3.4 Debt Paying Ability

2.1.4 Contrast of Steel Companies with Different Scales

2.1.4.1 Analysis of Average Indicators per Capita

2.1.4.2 Analysis of Profit Making Ability

2.1.4.3 Analysis of Operating Ability

2.1.4.4 Analysis of Debt Paying Ability

2.2 Economic Benefits of Steel Companies

2.2.1 Economic Benefits of Leading Iron-Making Companies

2.2.2 Economic Benefits of Ferrous Smelting and Rolling Companies

2.2.3 Economic Benefits of Leading Steel-Making Companies

2.2.4 Economic Benefits of Rolling Processing Companies

2.2.5 Economic Benefits of Leading Ferroalloy Companies

3 Industry Chain Related to Steel Industry

3.1 Industry Chain

3.1.1 Overall Situation of the Industry

3.1.1.1 Complete Industry Chain

3.1.1.2 Target Industry Chain

3.1.1.3 Product Structure