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

We (at the NRDC) find that a minimum of 50 percent net GHG reductions target by 2030, below 2005 levels is technologically feasible, affordable and achievable－adding to the tally of recent studies reaching the same conclusion.

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

"These efforts would result in a big cut to emissions—which would be amplified by synchronization across markets," she 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.

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

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