China August aluminium output up at 3.73 mln metric tons, stats bureau data show

BEIJING, Sept 14 (Reuters) - China's primary aluminium production increased 2.5% year-on-year in August to 3.73 million metric tons, the highest single month output in more than two decades, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Saturday. For the first eight months of the year, China produced 28.91 million tons of aluminium, up 5.1% from a year earlier, the data showed. (Reporting by Siyi Liu, Colleen Howe and Amy Lv in Beijing; editing by Miral Fahmy) (([email protected];))