Potassium is essential to China as the world's most populous agricultural country, because the compound fertilizer without potash, which is currently China's potash fertilizer self-sufficiency rate of 30%, National potassium cultivated area of ​​more than half of all arable land. National People's Congress, deputy general manager of Sinopec South Yan Yunfei, potash supply of resources related to the agricultural stability and food security should be upgraded to the national strategic level.
Yan Yunfei said China's potash resources is a serious shortage of proven industrial reserves totaled 791 million tons, about the world has proven industrial reserves of 2.5 percent. At the same time, the contradiction between the potassium deficiency of arable land in China accounted for 56% of the total arable land, lack of potash supply and farmland generally potassium is very prominent.
The world's proven potassium ore is mainly concentrated in Canada, Russia, Germany, Jordan and other countries. The end of 2010, Russia's two potash companies Ural potash the merger was announced, the global potash industry oligopoly industry concentration further enhance, which should arouse the country attaches great importance. Yan Yunfei said the one hand, we want to strengthen the mineral exploration and to increase domestic supply capacity; the one hand, to create the conditions to carry out the risk of foreign mineral resources exploration, accelerate the implementation of "going out" strategy.
Currently, the majority of developing countries have not been prospecting and exploitation areas, which provide favorable conditions for China's overseas potash. Yan Yunfei suggested that China should seize the funds of the integration of foreign mineral resources, risk survey, overall planning, the key support to carry out the potassium salt exploration and development in resource-rich countries and regions to identify and master a number of important mineral deposits and improve the level of resources and support.
Released by the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association, "Petroleum and Chemical Industry" 12th Five-Year Development Guidelines, to encourage overseas potassium resource development to meet the needs of long-term development. Yan Yunfei called on government departments to strengthen the planning and guide the development of preferential credit, foreign exchange, tax policy, and guide the strength of the domestic enterprises and research institutes, multi-stakeholder involvement to develop overseas resource exploration and development.
In addition, domestic enterprises should speed up independent innovation, to increase the extracting potassium from seawater, and the insoluble potassium resources development and utilization of industrialization, the increase in low-grade potassium mineral resources development, technology research, improve the comprehensive utilization of resources, efforts to reduce agriculture minerals resource tax. (Jing summer)