The survey shows that the steel market is expected to be relatively strong in March.

According to a survey of major wholesale steel markets across the country, the sales price expectation index and purchase price expectation index for steel wholesale markets in March were 75.37% and 72.97% respectively, up by 38.51 and 27.79 percentage points from the previous month, far above the 50% dividing line, reflecting that market sentiment has improved from weak to positive, and it is expected that steel market prices will trend towards strength in March.