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Int'l Steel & Minerals Conference 2014

The global economic pattern changed anew in 2013. The developed economies like Europe, U.S. and Japan showed an obvious sign of recovering, while the emerging economies saw growth slowdown on lack of sustainable development supports. China’s economy entered into a stabilizing stage after ten years’ rapid growth, under lofty local government debts, increasing systemic risks, deteriorating environment, faltering structure adjustment and rising labor costs.
The steel sector, in particular, was exposed to various difficulties like overcapacity, tight liquidity and environmental protection. The steel market extended bearishness, with steel average prices dropping continuously, against a backdrop that policies and demand failed short of expectations but supply maintained high growth. It was constantly echoed that the steel industry needs to be rescued. However...[more]
Xie Guozhong Xu Xiaonian Fan Gang Song Hongbing Gong Fangxiong Ma Guangyuan Ba Shusong Tao Dong He Fan
Afternoon, March 18, 2014
13:00~15:00 Supervisory boards meeting of Custeel
15:30~18:00 General meeting of shareholders and broad of Custeel
March 19, 2014 PRE-SUMMIT PROGRAMME:
8:30~12:00 VIP Social Gathering of Domestic Mining Companies (By invitation only);
8:30~12:00 Umetal Iranian Iron Ore Club Meeting (By invitation only);
13:00~18:00 ●Networking Meeting of Overseas Mines;
●Iron Ore Derivatives;
●Promotion Meeting of Virtual Steel Mill;
●Shipping Market and Derivatives;
●Big Data in Steel Market;
●Networking Meeting of Umetal Wechat Group Members;
March 20, 2014
SESSION I MACRO-POLICY & MACRO-ECONOMY
●Analysis on Macro-economic Trend and Government Policy Esteemed Economist
●Urbanization and Real-Estate Independent Investigator
●Financial and Investment Situation Financial Specialist
SESSION II STEEL INDUSTRY
●Review and Forecast of China Steel Market To be Advised, China Iron and Steel Association (CISA)
●Iron Ore Trading in Change To be Advised, China Chamber of Commerce of Metals Minerals & Chemicals Importers & Exporters (CCCMC)
SESSION III Dialogue Session
●Health of Steel Mills To be Advised, Steel Mills
●Strategy of Trading Houses To be Advised, Trading Houses
●Operation of Overseas Mining Companies To be Advised, Overseas Mining Companies
SESSION IV Commodities
●Global Commodities Markets Trend To be Advised, Goldman Sachs
●Iron Ore Prices in Future To be Advised, Chinese Esteemed Securities Company
SESSION V Market Forecasts
●Iron Ore Price Trend in 2014 Senior Analyst of Umetal
●Analysis of Hot Topics on China Steel Market Senior Analyst of Custeel
Remark: All Speakers to be advised, if any changes happened, please take the schedule announced on March 18, 2014 for final statement.