China Iron and Steel Industry Association: Solidly promote the high-end, intelligent, and green development of the industry.

Vice Chairman Xia Nong of the China Iron and Steel Industry Association emphasized at the 2026 Iron and Steel High-Quality Development Conference on the 11th the need to solidly promote the high-end, intelligent, and green development of the industry. In terms of high-end development, the focus should be on upgrading the upstream and downstream industries and the impact on future industrial development, jointly carrying out research and development of key technologies and high-end products; in terms of green development, we should continue to promote the popularization of advanced technologies for pollution reduction and carbon reduction, reduce the operating costs of environmental protection facilities, continuously improve environmental performance, differentiate technology support, and policy support; in terms of intelligent development, promote the transformation of steel enterprises' equipment, improve data collection systems, improve network infrastructure construction, actively promote the integration and innovative development of industrial Internet big data and the steel industry, and explore the advanced mode of digital development of the steel industry.