Ansteel, dubbed the cradle of China’s steel industry, marked its 60th anniversary on July 9. The mill has so far produced 381 million tons of crude steel, 375 million tons of pig iron and 277 million tons of steel products since it officially began production on July 9, 1949. Through 60 years of development, it has developed into a cross regional, multi base, diversified and international super large integrated steelmaker dealing with metallurgical machinery, the research of coking & refractory materials and deep processing for steel, and combined a production flow of ore mining and dressing, pig iron making, steel making and steel rolling, with an annual steel capacity of 25 million tons. Ansteel will become one of the world’s ten largest mills by 2015.