Tun daga farkon wannan shekarar, kasuwar karafa ta China ta kasance cikin yanayi na rashin tabbas. Bayan faduwar darajar karafa a kwata na farko, tun daga kwata na biyu, bukatar ta dawo a hankali. A cikin 'yan kwanakin nan, wasu masana'antun karafa sun ga karuwar oda mai yawa har ma sun yi layi don isar da kayayyaki.

A watan Maris, adadin kayayyakin da wasu kamfanonin sarrafa ƙarfe suka tara ya kai tan 200,000, wanda hakan ya sanya wani sabon matsayi a cikin 'yan shekarun nan. Tun daga watan Mayu da Yuni, buƙatar ƙarfe ta fara dawowa, kuma yawan kayayyakin ƙarfe na kamfanin ya fara raguwa a hankali.

Bayanai sun nuna cewa a watan Yuni, samar da ƙarfe na ƙasa ya kai tan miliyan 115.85, wanda ya karu da kashi 7.5% a shekara; yawan amfani da ƙarfe mai ɗanyen mai ya kai tan miliyan 90.31, wanda ya karu da kashi 8.6% a shekara. Daga mahangar masana'antar ƙarfe mai tasowa, idan aka kwatanta da kwata na farko, fannin gina gidaje, samar da motoci, da samar da jiragen ruwa ya ƙaru da kashi 145.8%, kashi 87.1%, da kashi 55.9% a kwata na biyu, wanda ya taimaka wa masana'antar ƙarfe sosai.

Faduwar buƙatar ƙarfe ya haifar da hauhawar farashin ƙarfe kwanan nan, musamman ƙarfe mai tsada tare da ƙarin ƙima, wanda ya karu da sauri. Yawancin 'yan kasuwar ƙarfe da ke ƙasa ba su yi ƙarfin halin tara kayayyaki da yawa ba, kuma sun rungumi dabarun shiga da fita da sauri.

Masu sharhi sun yi imanin cewa da ƙarshen lokacin damina a kudancin China da kuma isowar lokacin sayar da ƙarfe na gargajiya na "Golden Nine da Azurfa Goma", za a ƙara amfani da ƙarfin ƙarfe a zamantakewa.