China Knowledge reported that China, the world's largest steel producer, saw its crude steel output increase 6.5% YoY to 62.35 million tonnes in December 2013.

According to the latest statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics, in whole year of 2013, the country saw its crude steel output amount to 779.04 million tonnes 7.5% more than it realized in the previous year.

The country produced 54.72 million tonnes of pig iron in December up 5.9% YoY taking its total output of pig iron to 708.97 million tonnes in 2013 and reflected a year on year increase of 6.2%. Meanwhile, China saw its output of rolled steel grow 11.4% YoY to 1.07 billion tonnes in 2013.