Once a year the central economic work conference held in Beijing on December 14-16, the annual central economic work conference to make a conclusion at the same time of year economic work, more should focus on next year's economic work arrangements, "the capacity to" the keywords in 2017 working arrangements, will occupy a more important position, the iron and steel industry "the capacity to continue the war, and more stringent requirements, in order to ensure the" capacity to more effectively. 
According to the communique, 2017 will be an important year for the implementation of the "13th Five-Year plan", is the supply side structural reform deepening year. The meeting made it clear that next year to continue to deepen the structural reform of the supply side, continue to promote the steel, coal industry to resolve excess capacity. At the same time, for those stiff and dead zombie companies, also gives a clear statement, through the strict implementation of environmental protection, energy consumption, quality, safety and other relevant laws and regulations and standards, to create conditions for promoting the merger and reorganization of enterprises, proper disposal of corporate debt. What is more important, but also to prevent overcapacity has been resolved by the market, at the same time a stirring among the dry bones, the rule of law means to other serious overcapacity industry capacity to work.
In fact, as the first year of supply side reform in 2016, the results are obvious to all, the steel industry has exceeded the task. Xu Shaoshi, director of the national development and Reform Commission held in December 17th, the national development and reform work conference, said the annual 45 million tons of steel, coal production capacity of more than 2.5 tons of target tasks have been completed. According to the results of the 26 provinces have been released statistics show that the annual implementation of the capacity of 72 million 710 thousand tons of production capacity, far more than the previous target task. 
According to the central economic work conference on the work of the deployment, the policy level and not because of the achievements of the 2016 to relax the capacity requirements, but on the contrary, ready to let the capacity to more effectively, the requirements have become more stringent, such as the recent provinces have been released "if furnace and other related policies across the board". Vice president, China iron and Steel Industry Association, China Metallurgical Industry Planning Research Institute president Li Xinchuang said that despite the 2016 steel prices rebounded sharply, but the economic efficiency of steel industry is still no substantial recovery, there are 27% steel enterprises at a loss, industry sales profit rate of just over 1%, far from the national industry average, so next year. Production capacity and determination can shake. 
According to the 12 report of the metallurgical industry planning and Research Institute released in 2017, China's steel industry will really enter the reduction development, crude steel production will decline by about 2.2% to about 7.88 tons. 
Lange Steel Research Center Director Wang Guoqing said that the central economic work conference in 2017 is the capacity to crucial years, also shows that China will strictly control the new capacity, more resolutely eliminate backward production capacity, more to crack down on illegal activities, enterprises and equipment through the use of energy and environmental protection, technology, quality, safety and other laws and regulations to eliminate substandard regulations and not legitimate, the enterprises and equipment left running in equal market environment. "In addition to 2017 IF furnace, ground of steel capacity to strict governance, weak competition ability for some serious homogenization, the enterprise, will also become the object to the production capacity." Wang Guoqing said that in 2016 the production task, there are more than 70% of the previous capacity are discontinued invalid capacity, so 2017 of the actual capacity to process will be more effective, but the difficulty will be bound to increase capacity to.