Steel facing more pre-Olympics cuts

Jul 31, 2008 | 09:32 AM |

The Chinese government will order further steel production cuts at plants near Beijing if air pollution reaches an unacceptable level ahead of the Olympic Games.

Emergency measures include cutting steel output in plants, big and small, in Chengde, Shijiazhuang, Tangshan and Zhangjiakou cities in Hebei province, China's Ministry of Environmental Protection said on its Web site.....





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