Anthony Albanese to meet business leaders in Shanghai for green steel roundtable

Anthony Albanese will use high-profile meetings with top business leaders in Shanghai today to heap praise on the Australian-Chinese economic relationship, while promising to back industry efforts to decarbonise China’s huge steel sector. Australian exports of coal and iron ore have been critical to China’s massive construction boom and poured hundreds of billions of dollars into Australian government coffers. But China is now trying to turn to other iron ore suppliers, while also cutting steel production and moving to decarbonise industrial production. Albanese bats away Taiwan questions on first day of China visit Photo shows Anthony Albanese Shanghai The prime…