Mysteel dinner: The central bank issued a document to resolutely curb the fluctuation of the exchange rate, and the billet rose to 3700
2022-09-30

The central bank has set up a special re-loan for equipment renovation, which specifically supports financial institutions to provide loans for the renovation and renovation of equipment in the manufacturing industry, social service fields, small, medium and micro enterprises, and individual industrial and commercial households at an interest rate not higher than 3.2%. The special re-loan amount for equipment renovation and renovation is more than 200 billion yuan , the interest rate is 1.75%, the term is 1 year, and it can be extended twice, each time of which is 1 year. 

On September 27, a video conference on the self-discipline mechanism of the national foreign exchange market was held. The meeting called for members of the self-discipline mechanism to consciously maintain the basic stability of the foreign exchange market and resolutely curb the fluctuation of the exchange rate . The quoting bank shall earnestly maintain the authority of the central parity rate of the RMB exchange rate; the bank itself shall reasonably carry out proprietary transactions based on the principle of risk neutrality, and provide real liquidity to the market; member units shall further strengthen the publicity and promotion of risk neutrality for enterprises and financial institutions. Guidance, and further improve the service level to help enterprises avoid risks; relevant departments should strengthen supervision and management, monitoring and analysis, strengthen anticipation management, and curb speculation. 

On September 28, the central bank launched a 7-day period of 133 billion yuan and a 14-day period of 67 billion yuan in reverse repurchase operations. As 2 billion yuan of reverse repurchase expired on that day, a net investment of 198 billion yuan was realized .

September 28 Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate: Overnight SHIBOR reported 1.2700%, down 12.90 basis points. 7-day SHIBOR reported 1.7470%, up 5.00 basis points. The 3-month SHIBOR was at 1.6520%, up 1.80 basis points.


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On September 28, the ex- factory billet resources of Qian'an , Tangshan , including tax, were raised by RMB 20/ton , to RMB 3,700/ton.

On September 28, the ex-factory price of Qinhuangdao Lulongpu billet including tax was increased by 20 yuan/ton , and the implementation was 3,700 yuan/ton.

This week, the average cost of hot metal without tax for mainstream sample steel mills in Tangshan was 2,853 yuan/ton, and the average cost of billet including tax was 3,747 yuan/ton, a week-on-week increase of 6 yuan/ton, which is the same as the current ex-factory price of common billet on September 28. Compared with 3,700 yuan / ton, the average loss of steel mills is 47 yuan / ton, a decrease of 84 yuan / ton on a week-on-week basis .

This week, Mysteel counted samples of 110 coal washing plants across the country: the operating rate was 75.78%, an increase of 2.25% over the previous period ; the average daily output was 633,200 tons, an increase of 18,200 tons; the raw coal inventory was 2,067,200 tons, a decrease of 66,100 tons; the clean coal inventory was 1,528,800 tons tons fell 72,100 tons. 

This week, Mysteel counted 47 section steel production lines of 35 billet-adjusted section steel companies in Tangshan, with 23 actually operating, and the operating rate was 48.94%, up 19.15% from last week ; the capacity utilization rate was 45.68%, up 6.61 from last week %, the steel billet inventory in the factory was 365,000 tons, an increase of 8.31% from last week. The inventory of finished products was 664,300 tons, a decrease of 0.42% from last week, and the inventory of steel billets in the factory was 435,500 tons, an increase of 19.32% from last week.

Maanshan Iron & Steel plans to start overhauling a large bar line on October 4. It is estimated that the overhaul time will be 8 days, and the average daily output will be affected by 4,000 tons .

Chengdu Metallurgical Experimental Plant Co., Ltd. after the completion of the reorganization, integration and upgrading project is planned to conduct trial production and trial rolling during the National Day, and put into operation 2 100-ton ultra-high-power electric arc furnaces and 4 120-ton refining furnaces (2 for use and 2 for standby) . The casting billet direct rolling production process forms 2 double-speed bar production lines and 2 double-speed bar-line composite production lines.


The " Guangxi 2022-2023 Autumn and Winter Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan" was issued. Before the end of 2022, all localities will complete the annual long-process steel ultra-low emission transformation task . Liuzhou City continued to promote Guangxi Liuzhou Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. to implement the organized emission transformation and monitoring and monitoring system transformation in an orderly manner; Beihai City completed the sintering machine head flue gas denitrification ultra-low emission transformation project of Guangxi Beigang New Materials Co., Ltd. and put it into operation; Fangchenggang City completed Guangxi Shenglong Metallurgical Co., Ltd. has completed the transformation of organized emissions, clean transportation and unorganized emissions of material storage yards; Guigang City has completed the transformation of organized emissions of Guangxi Guigang Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. ◎ According to incomplete statistics from Mysteel , as of September 28, 10 domestic steel mills have released maintenance plans . Among them, Anshan Iron and Steel plans to start a 2580m³ blast furnace in the plant from September 9th. It is estimated that the furnace will last about 40 days, and the average daily output of molten iron will be about 6,000 tons.

Since August 2020, China Iron and Steel Association has carried out the publicity work of ultra-low emission transformation and evaluation and monitoring progress of iron and steel enterprises. As of September 28, 2022, 57 iron and steel enterprises have made public announcements on the website of the Iron and Steel Association . Two new companies have been added since September, namely Fujian Dadonghai Industrial Group and Tianjin Rongcheng United Steel Group. 

According to data from China Iron and Steel Association, in August 2022, the procurement costs of coal coke, iron ore and other raw materials for benchmark enterprises continued to decline, of which metallurgical coke fell by more than 9% month-on-month . From January to August 2022, the cumulative purchase cost of coking coal increased by 62.54% year-on-year; metallurgical coke increased by 21.38% year-on-year; domestic iron concentrate decreased by 26.40% year-on-year, imported fine ore decreased by 27.85% year-on-year; scrap steel increased by 1.85% year-on-year. 

Starting from September 28, the Daqin Railway began a 25-day intensive maintenance . The Datong Railway starts from Datong , Shanxi in the west and ends at Qinhuangdao, Hebei in the east . It runs through Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing and Tianjin, with a total length of 653 kilometers. Since the national railway launched a special campaign to ensure coal supply in June this year, the transportation volume of the Daqin Line has exceeded 120 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 10.2%, setting a record for the same period since the construction of the line.

Lanxin Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. plans to start construction of a new blast furnace of 1,250 cubic meters in December 2022, with a production capacity of 1.15 million tons .

 On September 24, the No. 2 blast furnace of the Chifeng Zhongtang Special Steel Ironmaking Project undertaken by China 22nd Metallurgical Company was successfully ignited , marking the smooth commissioning of the main line of the project.

On September 28, the No. 6 coke oven ignition oven of the Shougang Tonggang coke oven was replaced in different places in the same amount .

On September 27, the groundbreaking ceremony of Ansteel Group's hydrogen metallurgy project was held at Ansteel Bayuquan Iron and Steel Base. This project is the world's first green hydrogen and zero-carbon fluidized bed high-efficiency ironmaking new technology demonstration project , marking Ansteel Group's green and low-carbon transformation and development to a new level.


According to incomplete statistics from Mysteel , as of September 26, a total of 11 provinces announced the completion of their water conservancy projects in the first eight months of 2022, with a total investment of 336.606 billion yuan . 

From January to August 2022, the investment in transportation fixed assets reached 2.34 trillion yuan, a year-on- year increase of 6.6% . Among them, the investment in railway construction was 402.8 billion yuan; the investment in highway construction was 1,768.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.5%; the investment in water transportation construction was 99.7 billion yuan, an increase of 8.6% year-on-year; the investment in civil aviation construction was 67.1 billion yuan.

On September 28, Henan Province held the sixth phase of the "three batches" project construction activities. There are 3,399 "three batches" projects with a total investment of 2.8 trillion yuan . Among them, 587 were contracted projects with a total investment of 574.7 billion yuan; 1,178 were started projects with a total investment of 850 billion yuan; 1,629 were put into operation with a total investment of 1,370.8 billion yuan, and 882 were advanced manufacturing industries, accounting for 54%.

Since September 28, a number of banks in Wuhan have adjusted the down payment ratio for second-home loans to 40% , which has been implemented in the case. Relevant intermediaries introduced that before local customers purchased a second suite in Wuhan, the down payment ratio for housing within 144 square meters was 50%, and the down payment ratio for houses above 144 square meters was 70%.

Sunward Intelligence: The company is making every effort to promote the project construction. At present , the 3,000-ton production line of Bobang Shanhe has completed the construction of the plant, and is in the process of equipment installation and the construction of the scientific research building.