BEIJING — China's nonferrous metal industry saw steady output expansion in the first half of the year, official data showed.

The output of 10 types of nonferrous metals reached 32.83 million metric tons in the reporting period, up 1 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

The 10 leading nonferrous metals are copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, nickel, tin, antimony, mercury, magnesium, and titanium.

In the January-June period, the value-added output of the sector increased 5 percent from a year earlier, showed the data.