Chinese Agrochem Industry Steps into New Development Era

“In the past 20 years, profound changes have taken place in global agrochemical industry. The past 20 years are the fast-developing years of Chinese agrochemical industry. Over the last 20 years, the primary business volume of Chinese petrochemical industry has increased from Yuan554.8 billion in 1999 to Yuan16.4 trillion in 2018 while that the value of Chinese pesticide industry increased from Yuan11 billion in 1999 to Yuan308 billion in 2017. Moreover, innovation capability and environmental compliance have both increased constantly. Meanwhile, the new-generation IT technology, smart manufacture and China’s quality improvement initiatives have all developed and contributed to the changes of Chinese agrochemical industry, which guide China’s agrochemical industry development towards a promising future,” said on March 4 as a summary of Chinese agrochemical industry development over the last 20 years, by Zhao Jungui, the vice chairman and secretary general of China Petroleum Chemical Industry Federation (CPCIF) at the plenary meeting of the 20th CAC, Shanghai.

Li Shousheng, the chairman of CPCIF gave a presentation to Chinese pesticide and fertilizer development: 2018 saw a new stage of transformation and upgrading of Chinese agrochemical industry, where the objective of phase-out of outdated fertilizer massive overcapacity was achieved by and large, leading to a basic balance between supply and demand.

 

China’s total fertilizer output in 2018 was 54.596 million tons, 5.2% down year on year; pesticide output was 2.083 million tons, 9.5% down year on year. The total production volume of agrochemical products have been put under control, the continued supply-side structural reform in agrochemical industry has started to take effect. 

 

The innovation capability of agrochemical industry has increased apparently while progress has been made in respect of development of technology, equipment, process, environmental compliance and green pesticide creativity. Furthermore, the agrochemical industrial structure has been optimized remarkably. As guided by the supply-side structural reform in fertilizer industry, outdated capacity has been phased out, new capacity has been contained and industrial structure has been optimized constantly. The size of production, level of centralization and automation as well as capacity utilization have all been much improved. In the end, agrochemical service is greatly improved, where selling product is no more the only way of business, instead business is developed more and more based upon the “product + technology + service” business mode. At present, quite many fertilizer enterprises are in a position to provide comprehensive services covering soil testing, formula development, supply of fertilizer, fertilizer application, warehousing and distribution. In the meantime, agricultural financing, farm product logistical service and sales platform establishment are involved in business activities in more depth.

 

Li Shousheng also addressed the issue of challenges to agrochemical industry in the years ahead, expecting continued declination of use of fertilizer and pesticide in the coming years. In the interim, government will impose higher requirement on the use efficiency of fertilizer and pesticide. The high-quality development trend causes challenges to Chinese fertilizer and pesticide manufacturers, which will require enterprises to undertaken strategic innovation, technical innovation, management innovation and service innovation more effectively. Market competition will become more intensified, technical innovation is required to be faster, efficiency and management need to be more refined, safety and environmental compliance requirements will be more stringent. The pressure which enterprises feel and the momentum that they have will be greater than any time in history.

 

This year, CAC celebrates its 20th anniversary. According to Ma Chunyan, the vice chairwoman of CCPIT Sub-council of Chemical Industry (CCPIT CHEM), after the 20-year development, the number enterprises participating in CAC this year has reached 1,457, which is 21 times of the first CAC exhibition in 1999. A total of 13,000 enterprises have accumulatively participated in CAC exhibition. After 20-year development, CAC exhibition area this year reaches 80,000 square meters, which is 40 times of the first CAC exhibition in 1999, the exhibition area serviced is approached 1 million square meters in total. The exhibition started with conventional pesticide and fertilizer, having now grown into 8 exhibition zones for display of pesticide, pesticide intermediates, novel fertilizer, agricultural aviation, agricultural irrigation, seed trading & treatment technique as well as biopesticide application. A full industry chain trading and exchange-oriented one-stop platform has been established. 

 

Finally, the CAC-related selection and awarding activities, which have been held for six consecutive years, still continues and put CAC into high gear. Besides the top 20 Chinese pesticide exporter award, overseas marketing award and excellent fertilizer exporter award in existence, at this CAC a special 20th CAC anniversary award series is presented, which covers CAC lifetime award, CAC initiation award, CAC co-creation award and CAC contribution award. The winners include following enterprises and individuals: 
 

2018 TOP20 CHINESE PESTICIDES EXPORTERS
No.	Company Name
1	SHANDONG WEIFANG RAINBOW CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
2	NUTRICHEM COMPANY LIMITED
3	JIANGSU YANGNONG CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
4	SICHUAN LESHAN FUHUA TONGDA AGRO-CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
5	ZHEJIANG XINAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL GROUP CO., LTD.(Wynca)
6	NANJING RED SUN CO., LTD.
7	LIER CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
8	JIANGSU CHANGQING AGROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
9	ZHEJIANG ZHONGSHAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY GROUP CO., LTD.
10	CAC NANTONG CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
11	NINGBO SUNJOY AGROSCIENCE CO., LTD.
12	NANTONG JIANGSHAN AGROCHEMICAL & CHEMICALS LIMITED LIABILITY CO., LTD.
13	SHANDONG BINNONG TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
14	JIANGSU SEVENCONTINENT GREEN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
15	JIANGSU GOOD HARVEST-WEIEN AGROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
16	TRUSTCHEM CO., LTD.
17	NINGBO GENERIC CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
18	SINOCHEM AGRO COMPANY LIMITED
19	ZHEJIANG TIDE GROUP
20	IPROCHEM CO., LTD.

2018 EXCELLENT FERTILIZER EXPORTERS
No.	Company Name
1	WENGFU INTERTRADE LIMITED
2	HUBEI XIANGYUN(GROUP）CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
3	KINGENTA ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING GROUP CO., LTD.
4	CHINA BLUECHEMICAL LTD.
5	CHENGDU BELUCKEY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
6	YINGKOU MAGNESITE CHEMICAL IND GROUP CO., LTD.
7	SHANDONG COCOLY FERTILIZER CO., LTD.
8	SHANGHAI SALT LAKE WENTONG CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
9	HUMATE (TIANJIN) INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
10	QINGDAO BRIGHT MOON BLUE OCEAN BIO-TECH CO., LTD.

2018 OVERSEAS MARKET EXPANSION AWARD
No.	Company Name
1	BEIJING MULTIGRASS FORMULATION CO., LTD.
2	BEIJING KINGBO BIOTECH CO., LTD.
3	GREENFEED AGRO SDN BHD
4	JIANGSU JINWANG PACKING MACHINERY SCI-TECH CO., LTD.
5	ZHEJIANG XINAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL GROUP CO., LTD.（Wynca）
6	QINGDAO SEAWIN BIOTECH GROUP CO., LTD.
7	SHANGHAI ULTRAFAST INTERNATIONAL LOGISTICS CO., LTD.
8	HUBEI FORBON TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
9	QINGDAO HAIJINGLING SEAWEED BIOTECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
10	HERANBA INDUSTRIES LTD.
11	INDOGULF CROPSCIENCES LTD.

CAC COMPANION AWARD
No.	Company Name
1	HEBEI VEYONG BIO-CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
2	ANHUI HUAXING CHEMICAL  CO., LTD.
3	NANTONG JIANGSHAN AGROCHEMICAL & CHEMICALS LIMITED LIABILITY CO., LTD.
4	JIANGSU YANGNONG CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
5	NANJING RED SUN CO., LTD.
6	YONGNONG BIOSCIENCES CO., LTD.
7	JIANGXI ANLIDA CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
8	SHANDONG VICOME GREENLAND CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
9	ZHEJIANG ZHONGSHAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY GROUP CO., LTD.
10	HUNAN HAILI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
11	SHANDONG WEIFANG RAINBOW CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
12	ANHUI FENGLE AGROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
13	JIANGSU BAOLING CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
14	JIANGSU SEVENCONTINENT GREEN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
15	JIANGSU LANFENG BIOCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
16	TRUSTCHEM CO., LTD.
17	LIMIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
18	JIANGSU ROTAM BOXMORE PACKAGING CO., LTD.
19	SHANGHAI XICHUANG POWDER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
20	JIANGSU TENGLONG BIOLOGICAL & MEDICINAL CO., LTD.

CAC OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD
No.	Company Name
1	HAILIR PESTICIDES AND CHEMICALS GROUP CO.， LTD.
2	HEBEI VEYONG BIO-CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
3	HEBEI XINGBAI AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
4	ZHEJIANG TIDE GROUP
5	NANJING RED SUN CO., LTD.
6	ZHEJIANG XINAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL GROUP CO., LTD.（Wynca）
7	SICHUAN LESHAN FUHUA TONGDA AGRO-CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
8	QINGDAO SEAWIN BIOTECH GROUP CO., LTD.
9	TRUSTCHEM CO., LTD.
10	JIANGSU LANFENG BIOCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
11	FENGXIAN BAINONGSIDA AGROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
12	CHINA JIANGSU INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION GROUP, LTD. OVERSEAS IMPORT AND EXPORT COMPANY
13	JIANGSU FLAG CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
14	JIANGSU JINWANG PACKING MACHINERY SCI-TECH CO., LTD.
15	JIANGSU GOOD HARVEST-WEIEN AGROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
16	IPROCHEM CO., LTD.
17	BEIJING KINGBO BIOTECH CO., LTD.
18	JIANGSU FENGSHAN GROUP CO., LTD.
19	HEBEI MONBAND WATER SOLUBLE FERTILIZER CO., LTD.
20	WUZHOUFENG AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

INDIVIDUAL AWARD
CAC  LIFETIME EXPERT	Zhang Yibin
CAC FOUNDER AWARD	Sun Dongliang