Summary

With the development of agricultural economy, China’s chemical fertilizer market is gradually expanding. The apparent consumption of chemical fertilizer is going up annually, especially from 2003 to 2005; it began to slow down in 2006 and reached 57.47 million tons in 2007, up by 1.4% over the same period of 2006.

Increasing demand for chemical fertilizer in China is mainly due to the following reasons: 1. agriculture production heavily relies on chemical fertilizer, so its development will stimulate large demand for chemical fertilizer. 2. Adjustment of agricultural structure has influence on volume and structure of demand for chemical fertilizer. Currently, China’s agricultural structure adjustment aims at reducing planting area for grain crop and increasing this for cash crop (like vegetables, fruit trees), cash crops’ demand for chemical fertilizer is 1.2-2.0 times that of ordinary grain crops, so the adjustment will increase per unit area fertilizing amount and demand volume, meanwhile it will increase the demand for phosphatic fertilizer, potash fertilizer, compound fertilizer and special fertilizer.

Nitrogenous fertilizer dominates China’s chemical fertilizer industry with its proportion of total assets around 60%. According to the development trend, nitrogenous fertilizer has a declining proportion in asset, revenue and profit of chemical fertilizer industry, whereas compound fertilizer and potassic fertilizer show a rising trend, other sub-sectors keep steady proportion.

Many sets of large-sized chemical fertilizer equipment has been installed in recent years, which have greatly raised China’s chemical fertilizer production, the output in 2007 reached 57 million tons. Meanwhile, increasing demand for chemical fertilizer stimulate the supply in return.

Production of carbamide and phosphatic fertilizer has kept a rapid growth in China since 2007, and great changes have taken place in import and export, more exports and steady imports. However, according to the situation of supply and demand, there existed balance between import and export. At the same time, chemical fertilizer price of international market kept soaring. China’s export volume of chemical fertilizer reached 13.81 million tons in 2007, up by 153.4% over the previous year, and the import volume was 11.65 million tons, up by 4.1%.

With the marketization of chemical fertilizer, changes in import and export policies are as follows: 1. Shift from focusing on import to keeping balance(namely administration of both import and export); 2. Shift from non-tariff measures to tariff measures; 3. Control over import and export to keep appropriate volume.

1 Overviews on China’s chemical fertilizer industry
1.1 Position in national economy
1.1.1 Industrial chains
1.1.2 Features
1.2 Analysis of supply and demand
1.2.1 Supply volume
1.2.2 Supply structure
1.2.3 Supply forecast,2008-2010
1.3 Demand analysis
1.3.1 Demand volume
1.3.2 Demand structure
1.3.3 Demand forecast,2008-2010
1.4 Import and export analysis
1.4.1 Comprehensive analysis
1.4.2 Export
1.4.3 Import
1.5 Balance between supply and demand and price analysis
1.5.1 Balance between supply and demand
1.5.2 Price change and forecast
1.6 Technology analysis

2 Competition analysis of China’s chemical fertilizer industry
2.1 Features
2.1.1 Competition environment
2.1.2 Competitiveness
2.1.3 Competition between enterprises home and abroad
2.2 Merger and reorganization

3 Sub-sectors analysis
3.1 Comparison between sub-sectors
3.1.1 Scale analysis
3.1.2 Operation analysis
3.2 Nitrogenous fertilizer industry
3.2.1 Overview
3.2.2 Operation analysis
3.2.3 Import and export
3.2.4 Trend
3.3 Phosphatic fertilizer industry
3.3.1 Overview
3.3.2 Operation analysis
3.3.3 Import and export
3.3.4 Trend
3.4 Potassic fertilizer industry
3.4.1 Overviews
3.4.2 Operation analysis
3.4.3 Import and export
3.4.4 Trends

4 Regional analysis of China’s chemical fertilizer industry
4.1 Comprehensive analysis
4.1.1 Regional distribution features
4.1.2 Scales by region
4.1.3 Benefits by region
4.2 Shandong’s chemical fertilizer industry
4.2.1 Operations
4.2.2 Regional sub-sectors
4.2.3 Trend
4.3 Jiangsu’s chemical fertilizer industry
4.3.1 Operations
4.3.2 Regional sub-sectors
4.3.3 Trend
4.4 Yunnan’s chemical fertilizer industry
4.4.1 Operations
4.4.2 Regional sub-sectors
4.4.3 Trends

5 Enterprise analysis of China’s chemical fertilizer industry
5.1 Features
5.1.1 Comprehensive features
5.1.2 Scales
5.1.3 Benefits
5.2 Sinofert Holdings Limited
5.2.1 Profiles
5.2.2 Operations
5.2.3 Trends
5.3 Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd
5.4 Tong Ling Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd.
5.5 Shandong Deqilong Chemical Group Co., Ltd.
5.6 Shandong Luxi Chemical Co,.Ltd
5.7 Qinghai Salt Lake Potash Co., Ltd.
5.8 Sichuan Lu Tian Hua Co., Ltd.

6 Risk analysis of China’s chemical fertilizer industry
6.1 Economic environment risk
6.1.1 Uncertain factors in foreign trade
6.1.2 Influence caused by economic recession
6.2 Policy risk
6.2.1 Import and export policy
6.2.2 Preferential policy
6.2.3 Reform of chemical fertilizer distribution system
6.3 Risk analysis of upstream and downstream industries
6.3.1 Upstream industries
6.3.2 Downstream industries
6.4 Other risks
6.4.1 Barriers
6.4.2 Competition between enterprises home and abroad

7 Investment opportunity analysis of China’s chemical fertilizer industry, 2008-2010
7.1 Comprehensive investment opportunity
7.2 Sub-sectors investment opportunity
7.2.1 Nitrogenous fertilizer industry
7.2.2 Phosphatic fertilizer industry
7.2.3 Potassic fertilizer industry
7.3 Regional investment opportunity
7.4 Recommendations on investment and development

Selected Charts

Chart Varieties and outputs of China’s chemical fertilizer industry, 2004-2007
Chart Forecast on total outputs of China’s chemical fertilizer, 2008-2010
Chart Forecast on application volumes of China’s chemical fertilizer, 2008-2010
Chart Import and export volumes of carbamide in China, 2004-2007
Chart Import and export volumes of ammonium chloride in China, 2004-2007
Chart Import and export volumes of ammonium nitrate in China, 2004-2007
Chart Outputs of China’s phosphate fertilizer, 2003-2007
Chart Apparent consumption and dependence on foreign of China’s potash fertilizer, 2003-2007
Chart Operation of the chemical fertilizer industry in Shandong, 2007
Chart Imports of China’s chemical fertilizer, 1992-2007
Chart Price mechanism of China ‘s chemical fertilizer market
Chart Outputs of China’s nitrogenous fertilizer, 2003-2007
Chart Outputs of chemical fertilizer in Shandong, 2003-2007
Chart Expansion situation of the global potash fertilizer, 2007-2011
Chart Application volumes of chemical fertilizer and effective irrigation area in China, 1996-2007