Potash Potash Fertilizer: Provide a Strong Guarantee for Food Security

More than 60 years ago, China's potash fertilizer industry was officially born
.
Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, after 60 years of development and construction, China's potash fertilizer industry has grown continuously, and its output has increased rapidly, providing a strong guarantee for China's agricultural development and food security
.

The two bases create the "backbone" of the industry

In 1958, salt lake pioneers from all over the country and different nationalities gathered in Qinghai and took root in the salt lake, opening the Chinese dream of potash fertilizer
.
That year, the first bag of potash fertilizer was born in Chaerhan Salt Lake, Golmud City, achieving a breakthrough of "zero" potash fertilizer in China
.

Since then, in just over 30 years, China has completed the century-long development of the world's potash fertilizer powerhouse.
With life, sweat, perseverance and wisdom, China has supported China's potash fertilizer industry to overcome the hardships in the early stage of its business
.

During the rapid development of China's potash fertilizer industry, a group of potash enterprise groups has risen, opening up a unique road of potash fertilizer in China
.

For example, Golmud Zangge Potash Fertilizer Co.
, Ltd.
has taken the heavy responsibility to increase the overall capacity of China's potash production capacity and make great contributions to the integration and efficient utilization of China's potash resources
.
SDIC Luo Potash relies on the empowerment of science and technology to drive the diversification of China's potash products and open a precedent for China's potassium sulfate business
.
The two bases in Golmud and Lop Nur have created the "backbone" of China's potash fertilizer industry, allowing China's potash fertilizer to gradually realize the transformation from manual operation to semi-mechanization and mechanization, laying the foundation for China's potash fertilizer industry, and for China's agricultural development and food security.
Provides a strong guarantee
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The continuous increase in the output of domestic potash fertilizers has reduced China's external dependence on potash fertilizers
.
However, due to the endowment of resources, China still needs to import a large amount of potash fertilizers from abroad every year, and the foreign dependence once reached 60%
.
Therefore, taking advantage of the huge size of China's potash fertilizer market, controlling the price of imported potash fertilizer through negotiation has become a major strategy for the development of China's potash fertilizer industry
.
Under the leadership of the Ministry of Commerce, China has established a centralized negotiation system for potash fertilizer imports
.
Under the long-term efforts of the leading companies such as Sinochem and China Agricultural, the negotiation of the large potash fertilizer import contract has improved China's position in the international potash fertilizer market, making China's imported potash fertilizer continue to maintain the position of the world's potash fertilizer "price depression", and also ensuring the domestic potash fertilizer market.
of stability
.

"Walking on Two Legs" Guarantee Resources

In order to enhance the initiative in the negotiation of large import contracts, each enterprise vigorously develops domestic resources while practicing the "going out" strategy to develop and construct potash fertilizer bases overseas
.

In order to break through the problem of finding potassium and ensure the supply of potassium salts, the practice of finding potassium in China has never stopped
.
Under the scientific guidance of the theory of salt formation, China has made important breakthroughs in terrestrial potassium search in recent years, and discovered potassium-containing brine in the sandy gravel layer in the western Qaidam Basin, with a potassium chloride resource of more than 600 million tons
.
Potassium prospecting in marine facies also shows good prospects, opening up a new direction for potassium prospecting in the Upper Yangtze Basin (Sichuan Basin).
Brine and new polyhalite-stone resources bring hope for the exploitation of potassium resources in China
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At the same time, the state encourages the overseas layout of the potash fertilizer industry and establishes overseas potash production bases to make up for the insufficient supply in the domestic market
.
Zhongnong Group Holding Co.
, Ltd.
, Zhongnong Minerals Co.
, Ltd.
, Sichuan Kaiyuan, China Hydropower Group and other enterprises have successively sought resources for investment and construction in Laos.
The "new territory" of the world's potash fertilizers, and their efforts have added another chance for China to continue to maintain the "price depression" of the world's potash fertilizers
.

Technological breakthroughs change the supply landscape

For more than 60 years, China has pioneered a unique potash fertilizer production process
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The proven resource reserves in China are mainly salt lake potassium mines, which are mainly distributed in the Qaidam Basin in Qinghai and the Lop Nur area in Xinjiang
.
Potassium mines are located in remote locations, with harsh natural environment and poor supporting mining conditions.
Potassium salt resources are mainly brine potassium mines with relatively low grades, so production costs are relatively high
.
The technical achievements of related companies have ensured the safety of raw materials in China's potash fertilizer industry
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"Using limited resources to meet the domestic demand for potash fertilizer to the greatest extent is the ambition of Chinese potash fertilizer people
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To achieve this goal, it is imperative to innovate mining technology
.
" Chen Guofu, vice president of China Inorganic Salt Industry Association, said
.

With the support of national policy guidelines and various scientific research funds, SDIC Luo Potassium has developed a process for producing potassium sulfate from potassium-containing magnesium sulfate subtype brine, and built a 1.
2 million ton/year potassium sulfate complete plant in the Lop Nur Salt Lake in Xinjiang, enabling China to own The world's leading large-scale plant for the production of potassium sulfate from sulfate-type brine
.

Salt Lake Co.
, Ltd.
independently developed disruptive technologies such as carnallite water mining, reverse flotation cold crystallization, solid dissolution transformation, etc.
, forming 5 million tons of potassium chloride, 500,000 tons of potash, 400,000 tons of potassium nitrate, and 72,000 tons of carbonic acid.
The annual potassium production capacity has built the largest potassium industrial base in China, and has created a unique development model of potassium resources of "solid-liquid conversion, driven mining, both rich and poor, and recycling".
To an annual output of 5 million tons, service for 50 years
.