CHINA STEEL/IRONORE

A labourer welds steel bars at a construction site in Huaibei, east China's Anhui province, December 31, 2006. China has raised the threshold for steel mills and trading firms to qualify for imports of iron ore in an effort to help curb inflows of the raw material to outdated steel mills, the industry body said on Thursday. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA)