China's steel industry is entering a new development phase of slower output growth but higher quality, industry experts said.

Latest data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed China's crude steel output reached 904 million metric tons over the January-November period, increasing 7 percent year-on-year－nearly 3 percentage points lower than the year-on-year crude steel output growth rate for the first half of 2019, which stood at 9.9 percent.

The China Metallurgical Industry Planning and Research Institute predicted in a recent report that both China's crude steel output and demand will fall in 2020 from 2019.

Crude steel output in 2019 and 2020 is expected to reach 988 million tons and 981 million tons, respectively, said the report released earlier this month.

Steel consumption is estimated to hit 886 million tons this year, while demand forecast for 2020 is expected to be 881 million tons, down 0.6 percent from the level in 2019.

Qu Xiuli, deputy head of the China Iron and Steel Association, said at an industry forum in November that the industry will continue to rein in unwanted steel capacity, and pursue green development with less energy consumption but higher product quality.

Li said mergers and acquisitions are becoming key for quality industry players to have more market influence so that the industry can better avoid disorderly competition, amid the industry's pursuit of high-quality development, since remarkable progress has been made in overcapacity removal and environmental protection.

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