Although 2004 thin products yield a higher rate of increase in China, coupled with the strong global demand for sheet metal of the year, prices, limiting imports of plate products in China ( 2004 plate imports lower than in 2003 in China 12 million tons ), but the domestic sheet includes varieties such as cold rolling, color - coated, galvanized demand is still heavily dependent on imports. The other hand, due to the growth of China's steel output, to a certain extent, this makes up for insufficient domestic productivity of sheet metal products. In addition, large infrastructure investment in China in recent years, boosting the domestic plate volumes of consumer demand, plate in the Strip in proportion of total consumption to rise steadily. At the same time due to insufficient domestic sheet capacity, coupled with higher import prices, sheet consumption ratio decline, at the same time sheets in short supply are also stimulated the Strip on a low-end products consumption growth ( see table below ). At present, new on the various sheets of iron and steel enterprise projects are in the huge expansion in the coming years will be in plate production capacity set release period, market stage continue to exist in the current period.