"As long as the carpet had one aspect that couldn't meet international standards, we would scrap them and try again," Liu said.

刘说：“只要地毯有一个方面达不到国际标准，我们就会报废，然后再试一次。”。

"Thanks to the Chinese government's decision to scrap limits on foreign ownership of electric vehicle companies, Tesla became the first wholly foreign-owned vehicle manufacturer in the country," Tao said.

陶说：“由于中国政府决定取消对外国拥有电动汽车公司的限制，特斯拉成为中国第一家外商独资汽车制造商。”。

Among this, total amount of scrapped home appliances is more than 75 million units, accounting for over 10 percent of the total scrap in China.

其中，家电报废总量超过7500万台，占全国报废总量的10%以上。

Long-process steel production is a drawn-out process that begins with iron ore. Short-process steelmaking begins with steel scrap.

长流程钢铁生产是一个从铁矿石开始的漫长过程。短流程炼钢从废钢开始。

William Zhao, country chair of TotalEnergies China, the local unit of TotalEnergies, said the government's recent announcement that it would scrap subsidies for new centralized PV stations, distributed photovoltaic projects and onshore wind power projects will encourage healthy and sustainable development of the country's renewable energy sector.

In the meantime, China Baowu is working to scrap the stereotype that the steel sector is plagued by overcapacity and pollution.

China produces 3.3 million metric tons of scrap lead-acid batteries every year, a major source of pollution if not handled well, but a lucrative market if it was treated properly, Zhang explained.

An analyst said using the higher-quality ore will help increase the scrap ratio, which is exactly what the steelmakers have been able to do and have been doing for last few years on the back of the environmental policy, which also in turn has led to shutting down the inefficient furnaces and closing down some of the small blast furnaces.

TOULOUSExa0 - Europe's Airbus announced plans to scrap production of the A380 superjumbo on Thursday, abandoning its dream of dominating the skies with a cruiseliner for the 21st century after years of lacklustre sales.

On Thursday, Mobike also said it decided to scrap deposits across its business in China after tests in about 100 markets led to a significant boost in users.

"The UK used to send 540,000 metric tons of scrap plastic to China annually, but China stopped accepting such imports in January on environmental grounds.

”The UK used to send 540,000 metric tons of scrap plastic to China annually but China stopped accepting such imports in January on environmental grounds.

The country will scrap domestic data roaming charges from July 1, as it steps up efforts to offer more affordable telecom services, said Miao Wei, minister of industry and information technology in early March.

Such assets include old network equipment, scrap copper, air conditioners, mobile phones and other products.

The China Iron and Steel Association also said it believes imported iron ore prices will not continue to rise, due to rising supply, high port inventories and more available steel scrap.

Centralized remote control of steel scrap cranes, unmanned cranes in certain areas, robotic arms and automated surveillance of hazardous areas .

In the Finance Ministry's statement, China renewed its concerns over the US sanctions, and urged the US to scrap tariff increases on China, stop suppression of Chinese enterprises, treat two-way investments fairly, relax export controls, and lift the ban on products related to Xinjiang.

China reiterated its concerns over the US sanctions, and requires the US to scrap tariff increases on China, stop suppression of Chinese enterprises, treat two-way investments fairly, relax export controls on China, and lift the ban on products related to the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the ministry said.

China has stepped up optimization of COVID-19 controls since November and will scrap the quarantine requirement for international arrivals from Sunday.

China has also granted leeway for eligible cities to maintain, slash or scrap lower limits for first-home mortgage rates until the end of this year.

Early last month, sources said that Biden was holding back on a decision to scrap any Trump-era tariffs on China imports while the administration studied ways to help businesses seeking relief, the Bloomberg news agency reported on Sept 7.

Shu's remarks came as Bloomberg recently reported that US President Joe Biden is holding back on a decision to scrap any Trump-era tariffs on China imports, while the administration studies ways to help businesses seeking relief.

The new rules scrap previous requirements for the submission of financial statements, capital credit certificates and State-owned assets investment confirmation documents to complete an application report.

According to the plan, the use of waste paper and scrap steel will reach 60 million metric tons and 320 million tons, respectively, and the output of recycled nonferrous metals will hit 20 million tons by 2025.

According to the plan, the use of wastepaper and scrap steel will reach 60 million tons and 320 million tons respectively, and the output of recycled non-ferrous metals will hit 20 million tons by 2025.

Facing commodity price hikes, a State Council executive meeting last week outlined measures to better ensure the supply and stable pricing of commodities, including higher export tariffs on some iron and steel products, provisional zero import taxes on pig iron and scrap steel, and doing away with export tax rebates on some steel products.

A host of steps was decided upon to strengthen two-way adjustment of supply and demand, including raising export tariffs on certain iron and steel products, temporarily exempting tariffs on pig iron and scrap steel, and canceling export tax rebates for some steel products, to increase supply in the domestic market.

The composition of goods exported remained the same mainly comprising of minerals such as non-ferrous metals, metalliferous ores and metal scrap, non-metallic mineral manufactures, as well as non-monetary gold, said Namibia Statistician Agency Statistician-General Alex Shimuafeni.

On the other hand, the import basket comprised mainly of non-ferrous metals, petroleum and petroleum products; metalliferous ores and metal scrap, vehicles and inorganic chemicals," he added.

According to Namibia Statistics Agency Statistician-General, Alex Shimuafeni, the composition of goods exported remained the same mainly comprising of minerals such as non-ferrous metals, metalliferous ores and metal scrap, non-metallic mineral manufactures, as well as non-monetary gold.

China will scrap anti-dumping duties and countervailing duties on imports of barley originating in Australia starting Saturday, the Ministry of Commerce said on Friday.

"Yangzhou's latest move made it the first city in recent months to scrap both caps on home purchase and sales for improved living conditions," said Yan Yuejin, director of Shanghai-based E-house China Research and Development Institution.

Plans in place to enhance production, utilization to mitigate import relianceChina is expected to ramp up domestic iron ore sources while enhancing the utilization of scrap steel and housing more overseas mining assets to safeguard the supply of iron ore, a key raw material for steelmaking, experts said.

Domestic output of iron ore and scrap steel supplies will grow, mitigating the nation's reliance on iron ore imports, they added.

The association will work closely with relevant government authorities to explore domestic and overseas sources of iron ore while scaling up scrap steel recycling and utilization under the "cornerstone plan", Luo said at a recent forum on raw materials of the steel industry held by the institute.

It also aims to increase China's share of overseas iron ore production from 120 million tons in 2020 to 220 million tons by 2025, and source 220 million tons per year from scrap recycling by 2025, which will be 70 million tons higher than the 2020 level.

He also said scrap steel recycling and utilization will gather momentum within five to 10 years, to increasingly replace the consumption of iron ore.

China plans to raise the share of overseas iron ore production from 120 million tons in 2020 to 220 million tons by 2025, while it also aims to boost domestic output by 100 million tons to 370 million tons and steel scrap consumption by 70 million tons to 300 million tons.

Li Xinchuang, chief engineer of the metallurgical institute, said the Chinese steel industry has been proactively seeking low-carbon transformation and greener development pathways, with major progress achieved in areas such as promotion and application of advanced energy conservation and low-carbon technologies, construction of intelligent management and control systems, recycling and utilization of steel scrap resources and optimization of the steelmaking process.

"The proportion of steel produced by electric arc furnaces, which use scrap steel as raw material rather than the iron ore consumed by blast furnaces, could rise to between 15 percent and 20 percent in 2025, compared with 9.2 percent in 2020, she said.

Supplies of scrap steel in China are expected to be about 338 million metric tons by 2025, which will significantly promote the development of electric arc furnace-based steelmaking in the country, according to a senior industry expert.

In 2017, the country's production capacity of substandard steel, about 140 million tons, was completely banned, which led to significant increases in scrap steel resources, he said.

From 2018 to 2020, as China's steel reserves continued to rise, the supplies of scrap steel also increased steadily, with annual growth of about 20 million tons.

In 2020, statistically feasible supplies of scrap steel in China achieved about 260 million tons.

Furthermore, China's scrap steel reserves are not high, posing challenges to the low-carbon efforts, said Zou.

"Steel produced by electric furnaces, using scrap steel as raw material rather than iron ore, saves power and is cleaner.

Increasing the usage of scrap steel and upgrade production lines for high-value-added products will help achieve the 2025 carbon peak target for China's steel industry set by the government. "

The industry should also promote short-process electric furnace technologies and strengthen scrap steel recycling to reduce energy and raw material consumption.

However, given the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines and concerns over possible US monetary policy shifts in the following several months, alongside copper scrap and concentrate supply recovery, copper prices are likely to be depressed in the second half, Li said.

Rafael Suchan, managing director and CEO of Scholz Recycling Group, a Germany scrap metal processing company, said China reacted quickly and decisively when the pandemic broke out.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a draft five-year plan for public comment in January on the high-quality development of China's steel industry, calling for more use of scrap metals, expanded electric arc furnace capacity and more Chinese ownership of iron ore supplies.

"The government is encouraging the use of electric arc furnaces in order to reduce China's reliance on imported iron ore and increase the usage of scrap steel as raw materials, which is more environmentally friendly.

The supply shortage of scrap steel has been one of the main reasons for China's lower usage of electric arc furnaces－currently 10 percent compared with 40 percent in Europe and 70 percent in the United States in 2019.

"Electric arc furnaces can make steel by melting scrap metal, rather than iron ore.

But scrap steel resources will increase amid China's growing economy and crude steel consumption, she added.

The import of recycled copper and aluminum differs from previous scrap metal imports.

Some companies that used to import scrap metal have already begun to transform and upgrade to importing recycled copper and aluminum that meet the national quality standards, he added.

Apart from building scrap metal dismantling plants in countries of origin such as Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates to meet domestic demand, the company has set goals of producing 6,000 metric tons of copper and brass as well as 6,000 tons of aluminum per month, to expand its production capacity and offset additional costs of overseas operations, Ying said.

Li said the decline will be largely driven by the increased use of scrap steel, as well as the stringent environment standards in the country.

Moreover, since scrap metal imports are banned, imports of the important alternative to iron ores have also slumped heavily since 2018.

Xu also suggested strengthening domestic scrap metal utilization to offset demand pressure for iron ore imports, because 1 ton of scrap metal can replace 1.5 tons of iron ore. Apart from tapping raw material resources in both domestic and foreign markets to ensure high-quality raw material supplies, improving the pricing mechanisms and financial system related to raw material trade to reduce the impact of their price fluctuations is needed, Li said.

Due to the huge differences in the coronavirus response and economic recovery between China and other major economies, as well as the differences in the utilization of electric furnaces and scrap steel in steel industry, China's crude steel production took up 58 percent of the world's total for the first eight months, while in 2019 the country's crude steel output accounted for 53.3 percent of the global output the whole year.

Decline forecasted due to excessive global output and cheap scrap metalThe start of 2020 saw slumps in steel prices but fluctuations in imported iron ore prices at high levels, which industry experts said was a reflection of domestic market demand and supply, but was also shaped by non-market factors such as pricing mechanisms.

They also said high imported iron ore prices will not likely continue due to factors including excessive global output of the commodity and tumbling prices for scrap metal, an alternative that avoids the need for iron ore. China imported 262.73 million metric tons of iron ore in the first quarter, up 1.3 percent year-on-year, at an average of $90.59 per ton, up 11.7 percent in terms of price, according to official data from the General Administration of Customs.

In addition, as scrap metal prices will probably stay at a low level and even decline against gradually increasing supplies, imported iron ore prices will also be negatively impacted, Qiu said.

The central bank had last Saturday decided to scrap the traditional benchmark lending rate for new loans starting from this year, and made the loan prime rate (LPR) the only benchmark rate for fresh lending starting this year.

Scrap steel, another key raw material, has seen its price climb 8.8 percent compared with the same period last year.

Steel mills should curb imprudent output expansion, and the industry should strengthen reuse and recycling of scrap steel to reduce reliance on foreign iron ores, he said.

The total export of photovoltaic products reached $16.11 billion in 2018, the highest since the EU's decision to scrap minimum import price restrictions on Chinese products.

An impending policy to tighten scrap steel imports is bound to shake up the domestic market, but the influence will be limited, said experts.

"With an emerging trend that many steel recyclers are seeking to set up branches overseas, the industry is unlikely to be impacted, as imported scrap steel makes up a very small part of total scrap steel consumption, which is about 1 percent," said Guo Daqing, chief-researcher and analyst from the industry newspaper China Metallurgical News.

Guo noted that the policies might lead scrap steel dealers to stock up in the short term, but in the long term, the market will remain stable.

Scrap steel recycling is considered an important way to obtain steel and prevent the waste of useful materials.

From July 1, scrap steel and seven other kinds of solid waste products will be reclassified from an unrestricted import list to a restricted import list, according to a statement from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the General Administration of Customs.

For some metals on the list, such as copper, industry insiders said there might be new quality standards to further classify imported scrap either as solid waste or regular goods, with the latter likely to be exempted from import restrictions.

However, Guo said he hadn't heard of such a clause for scrap steel.

The restriction follows China's continuous efforts in restricting scrap metal imports.

On Dec 31, 2018, a ban on 16 kinds of solid waste products went into effect in China, including scrapped cars and ships, two major sources of scrap steel.

Such moves are leading to substantial drops in imported scrap.

"The restriction on scrap steel imports also helps to spur the development of domestic recycling, as the demand for scrap steel is still growing," said Han Xiaoping, chief researcher at energy analyst website china5e.

"Recent years have seen rising concerns over environment pollution although the recycling rate for scrap steel and many other metals is not as high as many other countries," he added.

In 2017, roughly 17 percent of scrap steel in China was recycled, compared to a world average of 35.5 percent.

"However, there were many small and medium-sized companies that melted scrap steel in induction furnaces, a procedure that can save costs and requires less advanced technology, but produces an inferior quality steel and creates challenges to environmental protection," Han said.

"Luckily such companies were also sidelined alongside the scrap steel import restrictions.

"Guo of China Metallurgical News noted that despite recent tightening policies on scrap steel imports, it will see a boom for a long time in China.

The ministry also said it was set to scrap all tariffs on spodumene ore and cobalt hydrometallurgical semi-products, two key materials in the lithium extraction process.

The ministry last July encouraged automakers to establish recycling service outlets and cooperate with battery producers, used-car dealers and scrap merchants to build regional recycling systems.

The country's ship-breaking yards, which have been tearing apart the world's retired vessels from both civil and military sectors, and turning them into piles of steel scrap bound for mills for repurposing, will henceforth focus only domestic ships.

They cover 32 types of solid waste imports, including ships, auto parts, waste, stainless steel scrap, titanium and wood.

About 800 large ships are sold for scrap in Asia each year, according to NGO Shipbreaking Platform, a Brussels-based coalition of environmental, human and labor rights groups.

Dong Liwan, a professor specializing in the shipping industry chain at Shanghai Maritime University, said some Western countries now are expecting Southeast Asia to scrap aged ships, before they upgrade their green recycling technologies in the ship-breaking sector.

Dong said the government should encourage steel mills to buy more scrap as raw material from domestic ship-breaking companies as a measure to support low-energy-consuming industries.

The China National Ship Recycling Association said that instead of using iron ore to make steel, if companies use scrap from shipbreaking yards, it can reduce gas and water pollution by 86 and 76 percent respectively.

He said the world's ship-breaking industry is not only under pressure from the aspects of ecosystem and occupational health but also facing the reality of not making profits, squeezed as it is by cheaper steel scrap prices and overcapacity in the steel production sector.

"Many ship-breaking yards in Zhejiang have either closed or passively stocked tons of steel scrap because its demand and pricing rights are totally decided by the buyers.

The use of scrap steel by mills had been reduced by 50 percent in 2017," said Yang.

"In the past, scrap consumption normally accounted for 20 percent of crude steel production, which is now less than 10 percent.

Countries such as the United States and many European countries have adopted electric furnaces in steelmaking to deal with scrap of cars, buildings and other steel waste during the early developing stage.

Their steel mills can use this technology and use scrap steel as the main raw material, said Zhang Yongfeng, deputy director of the market research office of the Shanghai International Shipping Institute.

The EU's decision to scrap minimum import price restrictions on China would help facilitate Chinese solar exports to the EU market, and help lower solar product prices in the EU and stimulate demand, he said.