2005年7月我国正式公布《钢铁产业发展政策》。由国家发展改革委会同有关部门制定的《钢铁产业发展政策》,包括政策目标、产业发展规划、产业布局调整、产业技术政策、企业组织结构调整、投资管理、原材料政策、钢材节约使用等共九章四十条,将贯彻落实科学发展观和走新型工业化道路作为产业政策的主线,既起到政府指导行业发展,企业又可据此规范发展方向和重点的作用。其中,《钢铁产业发展政策》第一章“政策目标”中的第三条指出:“通过钢铁产业组织结构调整,实施兼并、重组,扩大具有比较优势的骨干企业集团规模,提高产业集中度。到2010年,钢铁冶炼企业数量较大幅度减少,国内排名前10位的钢铁企业集团钢产量占全国产量的比例达到50%以 July 2005 China officially announced the “steel industry development policy.” The “Steel Industry Development Policy” formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission and other relevant departments includes policy objectives, industrial development planning, adjustment of industrial layout, industrial technology policy, adjustment of enterprise organizational structure, investment management, raw material policies and steel conservation. Chapter 40 will implement the scientific concept of development and take the road of new-type industrialization as the main line of industrial policy, both play a government-led development of the industry, companies can regulate the direction and focus accordingly. Among them, Article 3 of “Policy Objectives” in Chapter 1 of the “Iron and Steel Industry Development Policy” states: "Through the structural adjustment of the steel industry, the implementation of mergers and reorganizations will expand the scale of backbone enterprise groups with comparative advantages and increase industrial concentration. By 2010, the number of iron and steel smelting enterprises will be substantially reduced, and the steel output of the top 10 domestic steel companies will account for 50% of the national output