Chemical Fertilizers Remain a Strong Support to Agriculture

After 45 years concerted efforts, especially in the recent 16 years of reform and opening up to the outside world, the Chinese chemical fertilizer industry has become a strong backup to agriculture with its consolidated foundation and comprehensive development strength.

Since the founding of New China the capital construction investment in the chemical fertilizer industry has maintained at a level of about half of the chemical industry's total input. Today the chemical fertilizer enterprises above the county level have come to 1 565 including 915 for nitrogen fertilizers,