The cultivated land area of Shandong province is 114 million mu, and the per capita cultivated land area is 1.16 mu, which is lower than the national average level. At the same time, Shandong is also a fertilizer production and fertilizer use in the province, 26.8 kilograms of fertilizer per mu. Lack of water, lack of water and excessive fertilization have seriously hindered the sustainable development of agriculture in Shandong. Integration of water and fertilizer technology can significantly save water, save fertilizer, protect cultivated land, improve the quality of agricultural products, and enhance the level of agricultural development in Shandong. The development of water and fertilizer integration is also an important measure to implement the central green development concept, crack the constraints of resources and environment, and speed up the transformation of agricultural structure, and is an inevitable choice to achieve the green application of resources and sustainable development of the industry.

In view of this, the provincial Party committee and the provincial government attach great importance to water-saving agriculture and integrated development of water and fertilizer. Shandong began the introduction, testing, demonstration and promotion of water and fertilizer integration technology since 1997. Up to 2015, the area of water and fertilizer integration was 1 million mu. To this end, in 2016 the provincial office, the provincial government office jointly issued "on accelerating the development of water-saving agriculture and fertilizer integration", the views put forward in 2020 the development of integration of water and fertilizer area of 7 million 500 thousand acres, 6 million 500 thousand acres of new fertilizer integration. This year, the provincial government listed the development of water and fertilizer integration as the key work, and integrated into the comprehensive assessment of economic and social development, and held the beautiful countryside standardization construction and water-saving agriculture and water and fertilizer integration on-site meeting. In addition, the Provincial Department of agriculture has compiled 2016-2020 year "Shandong water and fertilizer integration technology quality and efficiency transformation and upgrading implementation plan", the implementation of the program will also water and fertilizer integration tasks, goals decomposition. Provincial financial arrangements for special funds to support, organize the implementation of water and fertilizer integration demonstration project.