China's aluminium production rose in August

China's primary aluminium production rose 1.3 percent from the previous month, hitting a record 1.863 million tonnes in August 2013, the data showed.

The output increased 5.2 percent from August 2012.

New capacity in northwestern regions such as Xinjiang had helped push up aluminium production, Yang said.

The bulk of existing operating capacity was still running, thought some were making losses due to low prices, he added.

Spot aluminium prices AL-A00-CCNMM in China have fallen near 5 percent so far this year to 14,340 yuan ($2,300) on Thursday because of oversupply problem in the industry.

China produced 14.349 million tonnes of primary aluminium in the first eight months of the year, up 8.2 percent from the same months in 2012, the data showed.

Henan was the top producing province in August with 274,140 tonnes. Xinjiang, the new power house of aluminium production, was the second-largest with 218,261 tonnes in August 2013.

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