China's economic efficiency indicators of steel products in the January-June period of 2005:

Output 173.119 million tons

Sales 168.674 million tons

Ratio of sales of to output 98.2 percent

Percent changes (y-y) on ratio of sales to output 0.6 percent

Percent changes on inventories over the beginning of the year 44.6 percent

The industrial statistics include all state-owned enterprises and the non-state-owned ones with annual sales income over 5 million yuan (602,410 US dollars).

Source: the National Bureau of Statistics