Employees work at a steel plant in Qian’an, Hebei province. [Photo/Xinhua]

BEIJING – China’s major steel mills saw their average daily output of crude steel stand at about 2.05 million tons in mid-March, an industrial data showed.

The daily output marked an increase of 4.61 percent from that recorded in early March, according to the China Iron and Steel Association.

Major steel producers churned out 20.49 million tons of crude steel in mid-March, the data showed.

During this period, daily production of pig iron rose 3.05 percent from early March, while that of rolled steel gained 5.17 percent, the data showed.