China's booming environmental protection industry is playing an increasingly important role in boosting economic growth.

China's northernmost province of Heilongjiang saw its foreign trade in goods grow 31.9 percent year-on-year to 145.06 billion yuan ($21.52 billion) in the first seven months of 2022, according to local customs.

The China Rare Earth Society 2022 Academic Annual Conference was held simultaneously.

For this year, mining exports could hit US$3.8bn, up 20% on 2021, Franco Mignacco, president of the Argentine chamber of mining entrepreneurs (CAEM), told state news agency Télam.

He urged steel enterprises to optimize technologies and engineering progress.

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World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 149.3 million tonnes (Mt) in July 2022, a 6.5% decrease compared to July 2021.