In 2006, for example, the NDRC produced a list of plants that were required to cease operations by the end of the following year. As the deadline approached in December 2007, a correspondent from Mysteel , a leading local source of information on the sector, visited a number of these mills to see first-hand how they were progressing with the government-mandated dismantling of their equipment.
而钢铁工业也存在着同样的状况，中央关停小型炼钢炉的尝试同样也一次又一次碰壁。例如国家发改委在 2006 年就拿出了一份要求在 2007 年年末必须关停的钢铁企业名单。结果到了 2007 年 12 月大限将至之时，在中国钢铁行业信息方面居于领先地位的网站“我的钢铁网”派出一名记者，走访了名单上的各个企业，希望能拿到企业如何遵照中央指令拆除设备的第一手资料。