With the increasing global awareness of environmental protection and the increasingly severe climate change problem, governments of various countries have introduced more stringent environmental protection policies and standards. This has put forward higher requirements and challenges for the steel industry, requiring companies to increase environmental protection investment and technological innovation, reduce emissions and improve energy efficiency.

The global steel industry is accelerating its transformation to digitalization and intelligence. By using modern information technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, steel companies can achieve refined management and energy efficiency optimization of the production process, improve product quality and market competitiveness. At the same time, digital and intelligent transformation will also help promote the green and low-carbon development of the steel industry.

In China, the "Extreme Energy Efficiency Special Technology Matchmaking Conference for Steelmaking Processes in the Steel Industry" hosted by the China Iron and Steel Association was successfully held. The conference focused on improving energy efficiency and green and low-carbon transformation in the steel industry, and showcased a number of new technologies and research results. This reflects the Chinese steel industry's active efforts in technological innovation and green development.