The “Guidance Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment (2019 Edition)” has been released. Which categories of pesticides and production processes will be encouraged or phased out?

Release Date:

2019-11-07

The National Development and Reform Commission of the People’s Republic of China recently promulgated the “Guidance Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment (2019 Edition),” which will take effect on January 1, 2020. At the same time, the “Guidance Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment (2011 Edition) (Revised)” is hereby repealed. The “Guidance Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment (2019 Edition)” comprises three categories: encouraged, restricted, and eliminated. The sections pertaining to pesticides and the chemical industry are as follows:

Encouraged Category

Agriculture and Forestry:

1. Feed, feed additives, and fertilizers that have obtained the Green Food Production Input Mark, Pesticide Development of high-quality, safe, and environmentally friendly agricultural inputs, such as veterinary drugs, as well as food additives permitted for use in the production of green foods.
2. Development and Application of Agricultural Biotechnology
3. Development and application of monitoring technologies for harmful elements in pollution-free agricultural products and their production environments
4. Development and application of technologies for the harmless treatment of organic waste and the industrialization of organic fertilizers
5. Digital Transformation of Agricultural Production and Smart Agriculture Projects
6. Digital Rural Development and the Information-to-Villages-and-Every-Household Project
7. “Internet Plus” Project for Bringing Agricultural Products from Villages into Cities

Petrochemicals:

1. Ion-exchange‑based bisphenol A plants with a capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year or more; direct oxidation‑based propylene oxide plants with a capacity of 150,000 tonnes per year or more; co‑oxidation‑based propylene oxide plants with a capacity of 200,000 tonnes per year or more; nitrile production facilities with a capacity of 10,000 tonnes per year or more; and the development and application of technologies for producing aliphatic isocyanates at the 10,000‑tonne‑per‑year scale.
2. Production of high-quality potassium fertilizers, as well as various specialized fertilizers, water-soluble fertilizers, liquid fertilizers, micronutrient and mesoelement fertilizers, nitrate-based fertilizers, and controlled-release fertilizers; development and application of technologies for the comprehensive utilization of phosphogypsum.
3. Development and production of new pesticide varieties, novel formulations, specialized intermediates, and adjuvants that are efficient, safe, and environmentally friendly; synthesis of chiral and stereoisomeric pesticides via targeted synthetic approaches; and the development and manufacturing of new biopesticide products and technologies.

Financial Services:

1. Building a Rural Financial Services System

Technology Services Industry:

1. National-level engineering (technology) research centers, national industrial innovation centers, national demonstration zones for high-tech agricultural industries, national agricultural science and technology parks, nationally recognized enterprise technology centers, national laboratories, national key laboratories, major national scientific and technological infrastructure, high-tech entrepreneurship service centers, green technology innovation bases and platforms, new product development and design centers, science and education infrastructure, comprehensive public service platforms for industrial clusters, pilot-scale test bases, and experimental base construction.

Environmental Protection and Comprehensive Utilization of Resource Conservation:

1. Technological development and application for reducing and controlling dioxin emissions
2. Development and Application of Alternatives to Persistent Organic Pollutant–Based Products
3. Development and Application of Disposal Technologies for Waste Persistent Organic Pollutant Products
4. Technologies, equipment, and engineering for the comprehensive utilization and treatment of the “three wastes”
5. Development and production of microbial strains and additives for the treatment of “three wastes”
6. Zero wastewater discharge and the application of water reuse technologies.
7. Development of High-Efficiency, Low-Energy-Waste Treatment and Reclamation Technologies
8. Leachate Containment Technologies and Materials for Waste Landfilling
9. Research and Development and Application of Soil Remediation Technologies for Persistent Organic Pollutants
10. Third-Party Environmental Pollution Control 1
1. Technologies for the reduction, resource recovery, end-of-pipe treatment, and monitoring of volatile organic compounds
12. Technology for the Pyrolytic Recovery of Waste Sulfuric Acid
13. Resource Utilization of Industrial By-Product Salt

Public Safety and Emergency Products:

1. Development and Application of Safety Monitoring Technologies for Hazardous Chemicals

Restricted category

Petrochemicals:

1. Development of new active ingredients for pesticides that are highly toxic, highly persistent, and have significant environmental impacts. (Bag Including oxydemeton‑methylphosphonate, isocarbophos, methyl parathion, phorate, terbufos, chlorpyrifos‑methyl, methyl bromide, methomyl, aldicarb, carbofuran, sodium diphacinone, diphacinone, warfarin, brodifacoum, bromadiolone, bromethalin, botulinum toxin, buprofezin, fenamidophos, aluminum phosphide, organochlorine and organotin insecticides, mancozeb‑type fungicides, sodium (or potassium) nitrophenolate, chlorsulfuron, amidosulfuron, metsulfuron‑methyl, and others. ) Production unit
2. New production facilities for glyphosate, chlorpyrifos (excluding the aqueous-phase process), triazophos, paraquat, chlorothalonil, avermectin, imidacloprid, acetochlor (excluding the methylene‑based process), and chloropicrin.

Phase-out category

Note: The year in parentheses after each entry indicates the phase-out deadline. For example, “phase-out by December 31, 2020” means that the item must be phased out no later than December 31, 2020; the same applies to other cases. For entries with a specified phase-out plan, phasing out shall proceed in accordance with that plan. Entries without a stated phase-out deadline or plan are subject to mandatory phase-out under national industrial policy or require immediate phase-out.

Outdated production processes and equipment

Agriculture and Forestry:

1. Soil fumigation with methyl bromide prior to planting

Petrochemicals:

1. Sodium‑based paraquat production process; trichlorfon‑based dichlorvos production process; manual packaging (filling) processes and equipment for small‑package pesticide products (1 kg or less); Raymond mill‑based production of powdered pesticides; and a facility for producing pentachlorophenol (sodium) using hexachlorobenzene as the raw material.

Outdated product

Petrochemicals:

1. Highly toxic pesticide products: BHC, ethylene dibromide, daminozide, dichlobenil, chlorophenoxyacetic acid, chlordimeform, tetramine, fluoroacetamide, sodium fluoroacetate, dibromochloropropane, trichlorfon (Suhua 203), phosmet, glyphosate, silico‑fluoride, methyl parathion, parathion, methyl parathion, monocrotophos, thiophosphorus (ethyl thiophosphorus), cacodylic acid, cacodylate, and all arsenic‑based, mercury‑based, and lead‑based formulations; 10% aqueous solution of glyphosate; methyl thiophosphorus; calcium phosphide; zinc phosphide; benfuracarb; dipterex; magnesium phosphide; thiophosphorus; fly poison; trichlorfon; terbufos; and dicofol.

2. Products to be phased out in accordance with the national overall plan for implementing international conventions: chlordane, heptachlor, methyl bromide, DDT, hexachlorobenzene, mirex, lindane, toxaphene, aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, endosulfan, fluometuron, chlordecone, alpha‑hexachlorocyclohexane, beta‑hexachlorocyclohexane, polychlorinated biphenyls, pentachlorobenzene, hexabromobiphenyl, tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether, hexabromodiphenyl ether and heptabromodiphenyl ether, hexabromocyclododecane (restricted for specific exempted uses), and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, its salts, and perfluorooctanesulfonyl fluoride (restricted for acceptable uses).

For the complete list, please click the link below: www.ndrc.gov.cn/zcfb/zcfbl/201911/W020191105642464210461.pdf

Source: National Development and Reform Commission website, China Pesticide Industry Association

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