Local industry focuses on pharmaceutical production, computer accessory production and chemical fertilizer production.

Chemical fertilizer production and imports increased.

A 2000 analysis of the river water revealed chlorinated compounds in discharges from the refineries, the municipal sewage treatment plant and from the Haifa Chemicals fertilizer production plant.

SDIC's industrial investment mainly goes to power generation, coal mining, ports and shipping, chemical fertilizer production and other infrastructure or resource-oriented fields as well as high-tech projects.

In response to these problems, there was a significant increase in investment, including the signing of contracts with foreign firms for the construction of major facilities for chemical fertilizer production, steel finishing, and oil extraction and refining.

Chemical industry: JSC "AZOT" (chemical fertilizers production), plant "Aurora" (paints and varnishes production), LLC "Cherkasy Autochemical Plant".

In the report, it also points out that although the government puts chemical fertilizer production in a very vital position, highlighted by the release of a series of preferential policies for raw material supplies and tax revenue, the effect was not always obvious.

Chemical Fertilizer Production: The reserve of potassium salt resource owned by SDIC-controlled subsidiary SDIC Luobupo Potash Co. Ltd., Ruoqiang County, accounts for more than half of China's proven potassium salt reserves.

Chemical fertilizer production continued to exceed the 1975 level and, in 1985, reached 516,000 tons despite relatively underdeveloped mining and enrichment processes for apatite and pyrite ore and underutilization of the Lam Thao Superphosphate of Lime plant (Vinh Phu Province).

To enhance the ability of the private sector to influence the GOU's fiscal and economic policy, USG assistance in FY 2007 supported six research projects that addressed key economic issues such as improving the efficiency of public utility services, land use rights, and the competitive development of chemical fertilizer production.