The global agrochemical industry will enter a new era of competition of "three countries and four parties"

In the first four months of this year, the main revenue of China's pesticide industry was 105.
37 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.
9%; the total profit was higher than 8.
4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.
6%.
The import and export volume of pesticides in the first four months was US$1.
8 billion, a year-on-year increase of 12.
4% Among them, 557,000 tons were exported, up 17.
2% year-on-year; exports were US$1.
5 billion, up 17.
2% year-on-year; and 37,000 tons were imported
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The prices of pesticide products have risen and fallen, and have remained basically stable
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The competitive landscape of the global pesticide industry is undergoing major changes, and it is also facing some new requirements and challenges at present and in the future
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The Pesticide Management Regulations, which were officially released on April 1 and implemented on June 1, after 8 years of revision, will have a major impact on strengthening the management of pesticide production and use, ensuring the quality of pesticides, ensuring the safety of agricultural products, and the safety of humans and animals.
Far-reaching impact
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What new patterns, new challenges and new opportunities does the pesticide industry face? The new pattern is the strategic pattern for the future development of the pesticide industry
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ChemChina has just announced that it has completed its acquisition of Syngenta at a cash price of US$43 billion
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In 2016, Bayer announced that it had reached an acquisition agreement with Monsanto at a cash price of US$66 billion.
In 2015, Dow and DuPont announced a merger
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At that time, everyone felt that there were still many uncertainties in these mergers and acquisitions.
Only the reorganization and integration of Dow and DuPont was basically a foregone conclusion
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Up to now, these three major mergers and acquisitions have basically become a reality
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After the six giants have controlled the global pesticide market for nearly two decades, the global agrochemical industry will enter a new era of competition in the "three countries and four parties"
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The "three countries" are China, the United States, and Germany, and the "four parties" are ChemChina, DuPont, BASF, and Bayer.
Germany will have an absolute advantage
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Under such a global layout and new competition pattern, when Chinese pesticide companies have also become the world's top pesticide companies, how can more than 2,100 domestic pesticide companies gain a foothold? How much can stand firm? How to develop yourself in global competition? This is what 675 original drug companies and more than 2,000 preparation companies have to adapt to the new requirements imposed by the "Pesticide Management Regulations", but must also face and think carefully
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The new challenge is the green development of the industry
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Green development has become the consensus of global sustainable development.
The situation of green development in China has become more severe, and the requirements for green development in the petrochemical industry have become stricter.
The green development of the pesticide industry has attracted more attention from policy makers and the general public
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The implementation of the new "Environmental Protection Law", the "Implementation Plan for the Control of Pollutants Permit System" issued by the State Council, and the "Interim Measures for Pollution Discharge Permits" issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection have been piloted in thermal power and papermaking.
13 All industries have implemented a pollutant emission control permit system; originally planned for June, the "Pesticide Industry Pollutant Discharge Permit Application and Issuance Technical Specifications" will be solicited and revised and released.
The "Pesticide Industry Air Pollutant Emission Standards" will be issued before the end of this year.
"These new regulations all pose more severe challenges to the green development of the pesticide industry
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The petrochemical industry released the "Green Development Action Plan (2016-2020)" last year, and during the Industrial Development Conference in April this year, it released the "Six Special Action Plans for Green Development of China's Petrochemical Industry".
Governance, energy conservation, emission reduction, and safety management all put forward requirements for the pesticide industry as a key point.
In fact, the green development of chemical parks also involves pesticides, because Jiangsu Yangkou, Weifang Binhai, and Hunan Yueyang are all specialized pesticide parks
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The pesticide industry and its enterprises must take green development as an important starting point, and take circular development as the main measure to reduce material and energy waste in the production process, reduce waste discharge, and promote product design, development, production, sales, and The greening of the entire product chain, including storage, transportation, use, recycling, and processing, guarantees China's food safety, food safety, and people's life safety
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New opportunities are innovation and development
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The development of the pesticide industry can't talk about competitiveness without innovation
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Innovation is especially important due to the particularity of the pesticide industry and its products .
Sun Shubao, president of the China Pesticide Industry Association, also said that "the world pesticide innovation center is coming to China, and the future of the pesticide industry lies in innovative enterprises.
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The six global agrochemical giants have invested hugely in R&D.
Syngenta’s R&D investment accounted for 7.
39% of sales, Bayer accounted for 6.
85%, Dow Agrochemicals accounted for 6.
16%, DuPont 8.
13%, and BASF 9.
39%.
At present, we also see that the world’s pesticide giants In response to global competition and the continued downturn in the agrochemical market, while increasing mergers and reorganizations, they have always been firmly focused on innovation and not let go.
Both Monsanto and BASF are accelerating the industrialization of the new herbicide dicamba to cope with grass.
Glyphosate resistance is a problem, and it is predicted that dicamba will be extended to 2/3 of the soybean area in the United States in the next year
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China has always attached great importance to the variety innovation, new formulation innovation and new technology innovation of the pesticide industry.
It is the only industry that has been continuously engaged in national scientific and technological research since the "Sixth Five-Year Plan"; in response to the amendment of the new "Patent Law" in 1992 The state only implemented the "Administrative Protection Regulations" in the two special fields of pesticides and medicine.
Since 1995, the former State Planning Commission and the former State Science and Technology Commission have accelerated the establishment of two pesticide creation centers in the north and the south.
The model is that the northern center is dominated by the Shenyang Research Institute of Chemical Industry and the Element Institute of Nankai University, and the southern center is dominated by Hunan Chemical Industry Research Institute, Zhejiang Chemical Industry Research Institute, Shanghai Pesticide Research Institute, and Jiangsu Pesticide Research Institute.
The organization is the strongest in the country.
Pesticide innovation power, build a domestic pesticide innovation team and base
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With more than 30 years of scientific and technological research and 20 years of innovation center construction, the achievements of pesticide innovation are remarkable, but there are also many unsatisfactory points
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my country's pesticide industry has long become the largest country in production, consumption, and export, but has the gap between our competitiveness, the technological level of the pesticide industry, and the developed countries, and multinational companies narrowed? Still enlarged? We must correctly face and face the gap, choose the right goals, seize the opportunity, and make the enterprise stronger, the industry stronger, and achieve the leap from big to strong
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And base
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With more than 30 years of scientific and technological research and 20 years of innovation center construction, the achievements of pesticide innovation are remarkable, but there are also many unsatisfactory points
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my country's pesticide industry has long become the largest country in production, consumption, and export, but has the gap between our competitiveness, the technological level of the pesticide industry, and that of developed countries and multinational companies narrowed? Still enlarged? We must correctly face, face the gap, choose the right target, grasp the opportunity, make the enterprise stronger, the industry stronger, and realize the leap from big to strong
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