The world’s largest steel producer and exporter, making more than half of the world’s crude steel.
China made 52% of the world’s crude steel in 2025, by worldsteel’s figures. Hebei is the largest steelmaking province, followed by Jiangsu and Shandong, and the largest producer, China Baowu, is based in Shanghai.
960.8 Mt in 2025 (1,005.1 Mt in 2024)
796.0 Mt of finished steel in 2025 (856.6 Mt in 2024)
Source: worldsteel, World Steel in Figures 2026. More figures on Steel statistics.
Who sets standards in China, the mandatory rebar standard, and licensing of rebar production.
The Standardization Administration of China (SAC) sets national standards; it now works within the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), which keeps the SAC name in public use. National standards are GB (mandatory) or GB/T (recommended).
Sources: US Trade.gov — China standards for trade · SAC
GB 1499.2-2024, for hot-rolled ribbed bars, is a mandatory national standard. It came into force on 25 September 2024 and replaced the recommended standard GB/T 1499.2-2018.
Source: National standards information platform — GB 1499.2-2024
Construction rebar is made under China’s industrial product production licence: it stayed on the licensed list when the State Council cut it to ten categories in 2019, and the list was reorganised again in 2024, with licensing handed to the provinces.
Sources: State Council decision, 2019 · State Council decision, 2024
The standards bodies on our steel grades & standards page: SAC.
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