Presentation title: Global Steel Decarbonization Progress and Development of Hydrogen-based Steelmaking Technologies 

Mr. Frank (Shaoliang) ZHONG is Deputy Director General of the World Steel Association and Chief Representative of the association’s office in Beijing. His main focus includes the outlook of the global steel industry as well as steelmaking raw materials market. He has been in charge of a variety of studies on steel demand, steelmaking capacity, raw materials outlook, monitoring the development of emerging economies in particular China, India and ASEAN, and a survey on the global railway system. He was involved in IEA’s Global Iron and Steel Technology Roadmap project as well as the EU’s raw materials strategy study. Mr. Zhong started his career with the former Baosteel Group (now China Baowu Steel Group) in 1997 as an ironmaking engineer. Before joined World Steel Association in 2006, he worked for Rio Tinto for three years.