SHANGHAI: Aluminium producer China Hongqiao Group has shut down 250,000 tonnes of production capacity as Chinese producers look to combat a slump in local prices to record lows.
The output cut, which mirrors similar moves over the past month by the copper, zinc and nickel industries, followed a meeting of 14 major Chinese aluminium smelters in the southwestern city of Kunming in Yunnan province.
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