It is reported that after two years' construction, equipments installation and testing, Shougang's cold rolling sheet production line with an investment of CNY 6.4 billion and a capacity of 1.50 million tonnes per year launched commercial operation on May 10th 2008. This is the first completed project of Shoufang's relocation project and the only one project of high grade left in Beijing.

Shougang cold rolling sheet production line, located at Shunyi District in Beijing has a design capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per year including 800,000 tonnes of cold rolling annealed sheet coil and 700,000 of hot dipped galvanized sheet coil.

The products of the line are mainly high grade sheets used for auto and home appliance manufacturing and in construction industry. The 2,160 hot continuous rolling line and the supplementary systems in Shougang will support the line with feeds and help in product development.

As per report adopting the most advanced technologies and equipments the sheet mill has installed pickling and rolling machines, continuous annealing machine, two continuous hot dipped galvanizing lines two re rolling inspecting lines, two packing machines and a grinding mill.

Meanwhile another key project, Caofeidian Shougang Jingtang Iron and Steel Project is under way.

Till 2010, the demand in China of cold rolled sheet is estimated at 84 million tonnes per year with a shortage of more than 10 million tonnes.