Sinochem Group is a large-scale state-owned central enterprise.
Sinochem Group Co., Ltd. is a large-scale state-owned central enterprise founded in March 1950. It was formerly known as China National Chemical Import and Export Corporation. It was China's largest foreign trade enterprise in history. It is now an important state-owned enterprise supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and is headquartered in Beijing.
Sinochem Group’s main businesses are spread across five major fields: energy, agriculture, chemicals, real estate, and finance. It is one of China’s four major national oil companies, the largest integrated agricultural input enterprise, and a leading chemical product It is a comprehensive service provider and has strong influence in high-end real estate hotels and non-bank financial fields.
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Today, Sinochem Group has not only achieved outstanding results in pesticide research, but has also gradually embarked on a path of integrating pesticide industry, academia and research with Chinese characteristics. As of the end of 2019, the group has applied for more than 500 domestic and foreign patents in the field of pesticides.
"The National Key Laboratory of 'New Pesticide Creation and Development' can synthesize and screen more than 3,000 new compounds every year; it conducts field efficacy and formulation research on 20 highly active compounds, and 3 to 5 highly active compounds. Research on synthesis methods of active compounds; on average, one pesticide candidate is provided for industrial development every two years," said Sun Ke, general manager of Shenyang Sinochem Pesticide Chemical R&D Co., Ltd.
The "bridge" from chemicals to agricultural products is biological activity testing, which is also an important step in the development of innovative pesticide products. Every year, more than 5,000 new compounds are tested in the artificial climate chambers, greenhouses, experimental greenhouses and test fields of the Bioactivity Testing Center of the National Key Laboratory of "New Pesticide Creation and Development" of the Agricultural Research Corporation to verify the safety of new compounds on crops.
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