Environmental Assessment and International Competitiveness Analysis of Agricultural Fertilizer Industry in China

Abstract

In order to measure the social economic development, market demand and industrial policies among different fields, and evaluate the impact of the above three factors on the macro environment and international competitiveness of the fertilizer industry. Six countries including U. S. A., China, India, Brazil, Russia and Canada were selected as objects of this research, industrial environmental assessment index was adopted.The results indicate that the macro environment of China's fertilizer industry is comparatively advantageous compared with the major fertilizer producing and consumer countries in the world, given China's fertilizer industry ranking third in the comprehensive macro environment. However, according to the comparative analysis of social economy, market demand and industrial policy index, China's fertilizer respectively ranks the sixth, third and first, which presents that China's competitive advantage is not stable currently. In order to improve the international competitiveness of industry, fertilizer enterprises should actively "go out" and make effectively use of the opportunity of RCEP initiative, so as to further expand business and enhance international competitiveness. Additionally, our country is also expected to make policies properly to support and stimulate the industrial development of Chinese fertilizer enterprises and improve the international competitiveness of the industry, avoiding direct administrative intervention to enterprises and markets at full steam, and encouraging enterprises to increase the production of green, environmentally-friendly and high-efficiency fertilizer products which have higher quality and lower costs, so as to promote the optimization of the industrial structure of chemical fertilizer enterprises and the upgrading of the industry to accelerate the transformation and development.