In the first nine months of this year, the trends of China's primary steel-using industries went down.

In terms of the real estate industry, the investment and the construction starts went down by 8% and by 38% year on year, respectively. Meanwhile, the investment in infrastructure increased by 8.6% from the same period last year.

Also, car production from China in the first nine months was 19.63 million vehicles, increasing by 7.4% year on year. At the same time, China's home appliance exports went down by 10.1% compared to last year's period.