Decarbonization pathways of China's iron and steel industry …
Iron and steel are CO 2-intensive and core materials for social development. In 1996, China became the largest iron and steel manufacturer in the world (NBS, 1996–2020), accounting for 13.4%of the world's crude steel production in 1996, and its share has continuously increased to 56.7% in 2020 (WSA, 2020; Zhang et al., 2021).