China Iron Ore Industry Market Research and Investment Forecast Report

The most distinctive characteristics of this report is forward-looking and timeliness. Through analyzing forward-looking characteristic of abundant first-hand market data, we deeply and objectively dissect China current iron ore industry’s overall market size and competitive landscape. Furthermore, based on future development tracks and years’ practice experience of iron ore industry, we conduct prudent analysis and forecast for iron ore industry’s future development trend.

In 2010, China imported 620 million tons of iron ore, and the weighted average price of national imported iron ore was 128 USD/ton, up by 40 USD/ton over the last year. The cost of China’s whole year imported iron ore increased by 190 billion Yuan. At the same time, the three giants in iron ore industry gained 48.6 billion US dollars of profits in total in 2010, while the 77 enterprises in the list of China Iron and Steel Association gained only 89.7 billion Yuan of profits in total, amount to 13.6 billion US dollars, lagging behind any one of the three enterprises in the world.

In 2011, the drastic changes have taken place in the global iron ore index. Along with Platts Energy Company having announced to purchase SBB, then the three big iron ore indexes in the globe will turn for a situation of tripartite confrontation to predatory duopoly. As the world’s largest iron ore importer, the iron ore index is mainly for Chinese market. Under this circumstance, the merger of these two giants will be harmful for Chinese enterprises. On December 2011, SGX (Singapore Stock Exchange) recommended iron ore futures, which is the second exchange that recommends iron ore futures in the world after the ICEX. In the long-term, it’s an inevitable trend for iron ore pricing mechanism to be indexing and to achieve financialization.

At present, China possess an annual 150 million tons of production capability for overseas iron ore development projects, but most of them have not yet put into operation. The proportion of projects with China’s ownership accounts for less than 10% of China’s imported iron ore. At the same time, the international three giants make full efforts spread the overseas expansion strategy, and compete for control rights of major raw materials in the worldwide. The international iron ore market concentration will be further improved; the control capability for price will continue to be strengthened; the monopoly position will be reinforced; and they keep squeezing China steel enterprises’ profit space.

Look forward to the future. China will still be the world’s largest iron ore consumption country. China plans to build 36 million sets of affordable houses, which will continue to stimulate the demand for steel and iron ore. With Forward’s long-term tracking and collecting market data of iron ore industry, we roundly and accurately analyze the industry structure system for you from the view of mastering the whole industry. This report mainly focuses on analyzing China iron ore industry’s current market size, development speed and competitive situation, depending on macro-prosperity of current iron ore industry and relying on its production and marketing conditions as well as the demand trend.

The report pay more attention to analyze the production and development of China iron ore market; the current market environment and enterprise competitiveness of iron ore industry; the competitive landscape and competitive trend of iron ore industry; the leading corporations’ operational conditions in iron ore industry; as well as the development trend and prospect forecast of iron ore industry. Meanwhile, with comprehensive and specific first-hand market data over the past 5 years, Forward helps you to grasp the market and development trends of iron ore industry, so as to win advantages from competition!

The most distinctive characteristics of this report is forward-looking and timeliness. Through analyzing forward-looking characteristic of abundant first-hand market data, we deeply and objectively dissect China current iron ore industry’s overall market size and competitive landscape. Furthermore, based on future development tracks and years’ practice experience of iron ore industry, we conduct prudent analysis and forecast for iron ore industry’s future development trend. This report helps iron ore manufacturing enterprises, R&D institutions, marketing enterprises and investment enterprises to precisely grasp current latest developments of the industry. Afterwards, they can make wise operating decisions and define enterprises’ development directions.

Here, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Ministry of State Information Center, Bureau of Statistics of China, China Customs, International Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Tsinghua University Library, Development Research Center of the State Council and Beijing Essence Forward Research Center, for their great support when we conduct this report!

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Qianzhan Business Information Co., Ltd. Industry Research Center
Research Team of Iron Ore Industry