This report contains actual and forecasted data for China basic iron and steel (ISIC3: C2710) from 2008 to 2016 in terms of production, market demand, exports, imports, price indices, employment and productivity. This industry class includes establishments engaged in the manufacturing of basic iron and steel. This class includes operations of conversion by reduction of iron ore in blast furnaces and oxygen converters or of ferrous waste and scrap in electric arc furnaces or by direct reduction of iron ore without fusion to obtain crude steel which is smelted and refined in a ladle furnace and then poured and solidified in a continuous caster in order to produce semi-finished flat or long products, which are used, after reheating, in rolling, drawing and extruding operations to manufacture finished products such as plate, sheet, strip, bars, rods, wire, tubes, pipes and hollow profiles.