At the end of 2015, the Ministry of Environment Protection (MEP) along with 14 departments of the government including the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), 

“Zero growth” of pesticide industry laid the basic development tone of pesticide industry in 2015.  In the year of 2015, the government has issued lots of policies to management the pesticide industry.

In general, pesticide production growth in 2015 has been slow down and decreased for the first time among the last 5 years. According to data of National Bureau of Statistic of China, the pesticide exportation amount from January to November is 138.15 million tones and decreased by 9.2% comparing to 2014. The exportation value also declined from 87.60 billion USD in 2014 to 66.70 billion USD in 2015 for the previous 11 months.

The 15th National Pesticide Communication Conference was held in Shanghai recently. The 13th Five Year Plan (FYP) was discussed animatedly during the conference.

2015 is the last year of 12th Five Year Plan (FYP), lots of discussion about 13th FYP have been conducted recently. During 15th National Pesticide Communication Conference, Mr. Cao Chengyu, the vice secretary-general of the China Pesticide Industry Association shared the results of 12th FYP.

Recently, the 19th Pesticide Information Exchange Conference was held in Nanjing. Vice director of ICAMA Mr. Zhao Yonghui presented on “Pesticide registration management and company’s precautions”. Mr. Zhao interpreted assessment factors in pesticide registration, and concerns of pesticide registration, and introduced document authorization, pharmacodynamic test and risk assessment when registering pesticides. Apart from that, Mr. Zhao has also summarized practical advice for 13 pesticides to help companies avoid detours in registration, which covers some popular products in market as followed:

The development of pesticide industry of China has only gone through several decades, even though China has become one of the largest pesticide production and exportation countries, there still exits big gap comparing with developed countries. The main gap falls on the production and application of highly-toxic pesticides and large scale of old products. 33 types of highly toxic pesticides have been banned step by step since 1980s, and only 22 registered types of highly toxic can be used now.

In an effort to improve pesticide environmental risk assessment, the ICAMA held a training program in Hangzhou on October 14th and 15th 2015.

According to a State Council announcement made on September 2nd 2015, the revision of pesticide administration regulations is a priority agenda for 2015. The announcement states.

From 1 January 2013 to 20 April 2015, China ICAMA received almost 15,000 applications for field trial, which is an essential part of obtaining pesticide registration in China, of which 10,234 of them were based on the off-patent or the sub-new active ingredients.The number the application filed by over-seas applicants was relatively small, reflecting the Chinese producers are inflating expectation on the off-patent market.