These projects will bring "rigorous risks and challenges" to the environment, it said.

Although China saw rapid development of the solid waste management and recycling sectors, it still faces great challenges, Song said.

China's industrial output, an important economic indicator, rose 24.5 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, as the country's industrial production rebounded steadily, according to the National Bureau of Statistics on Friday.

Hot dipped galvanized sheet and strip, down 7 percent, hot rolled sheet, down 9 percent and cold rolled sheet, down 10 percent.

This was a 32.6% increase from the 2,052,000 permit tons recorded in February and a 43.2% increase from the February final imports total of 1,900,000.

Recently, at the meeting of Fujian entrepreneurship day, Chen Qingke, President of Fujian qingtuo group, as the representative of stainless steel industry chain, made a speech with the theme of "striving to build a world-famous stainless steel city".

The idled coal mine in Australia is expected to be restarted from July 2021

The Wonmunna iron ore project is an open-pit, direct-shipping iron ore (DSO) project by Minerals Resources Limited (MRL) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.