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With the increasing overseas orders and growing price in Q1 2012, some glyphosate technical manufacturers adopt glycine route resume expansion program, which has shown the remained competitiveness of glycine route in China, according to CCM International’s May Issue of Glyphsoate China Monthly Report.

China's import volume of pesticides increases by 8.1% year on year in Q1 2012 to 16,000 tonnes, according to CCM’s May Issue of Fungicides China News.

China releases an announcement on 24 April, 2012 to further restrict paraquat, according to CCM International’s latest issue of Crop Protection China News.

According to Zhejiang Plant Protection Station (ZPPS), in 2012 diseases and insect pests of major crops, especially rice, will occur more seriously in Zhejiang Province (an eastern coastal province of China) over last year, based on factors mainly including the cardinal number of overwintering diseases and insect pests, crop distribution, weather trend, etc., according to CCM International’s May issue of Insecticides China News.

Most listed pesticide companies in China have experienced another tough year in 2011, according to CCM’s April issue of AgriChina Investor.

Jiangsu GPRO Group Co., Ltd. (GPRO Group) may inject the assets of its subsidiary Nanjing Titanium Dioxide Chemical Co., Ltd. (Nanjing Titanium) into Shanghai Lianhua Fibre Co., Ltd. (Lianhua Fibre).

In order to completely carry out the previously announced Entry Criteria for Ammonium Phosphate Industry (Entry Criteria) (the details see page 4 issue 1 Vol. 1: MIIT to promulgate Entry Criteria for Phosphate and Ammonium Production), China’s Ministry of Industrial and Information Technology (MIIT) issued Interim Measures of Entry Criteria for Ammonium Phosphate Industry (Interim Measures) on April 18th, 2012, according to CCM International’s May issue of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report.

On 30 March 2012, Global Sweeteners announced that it has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire equity interests in GBT-Cargill from Cargill.

Due to different kinds of reasons, some domestic large PPC producers delayed or slowed down the expansion projects. Nevertheless, the future of PPC industry will be better.

Driven by the booming market, resource advantage and Chinese government's encourage, Chinese fluoropolymer industry attracts more and more foreign investment in resent years.