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.

The 2105 ferrosilicon contract price on ZCE closed at 7,220 yuan per ton on April 19.

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