Integrated steelmaker US Steel will keep its two remaining idled blast furnaces down for the rest of 2020.

Qu Xiuli was elected as Secretary General of China Iron and Steel Association.

China's benchmark power coal price edges down.

China's coal hub Shanxi continues to slash overcapacity, close mines.

China's official purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector rose to a four-month high in July, indicating that the sector accelerated recovery from the COVID-19 epidemic.

Growth comes with pandemic controls, favorable economic and social policies.

These restrictions are expected to weigh on industrial activity and curtail power demand and generation further, Icra said.

Indian coke import data rebuts monsoon demand effect.