On August 27, 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a number of chemical industry standards, of which six new fertilizer standards will be implemented on January 1, 2020.

_Since the original Ministry of Agriculture put forward zero increase in fertilizer application in 2015, especially after the State Council issued "Opinions on Innovating System and Mechanism to Promote Green Development of Agriculture" in 2017, adding functional synergists to traditional fertilizers has become an important direction for the chemical fertilizer industry to create new fertilizers for promoting green development of agriculture. Industry standards of monoammonium phosphate containing humic acid, diammonium phosphate, monoammonium phosphate containing alginate, diammonium phosphate, urea sulfate-containing compound fertilizer, polymer coated urea, polymer sulfur coated urea and fertilizer with fertilizer retention agent will provide standard support for the development of these six new types of fertilizer specifications. This time, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has also issued the industry standard of chemical fertilizer block preventive agent, which will be implemented on January 1, 2020.

In addition, on September 1, 2019, four fertilizer-related testing methods were formally implemented. These four agricultural industry standards were issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas in January 2019, involving the determination of chromium, arsenic, fluorine and DMPP additives in fertilizers.