Overview and prospect of agrochemical discovery in China

China is a big agricultural country, and modern agricultural production can not do well without agricultural chemicals. After nearly 70 years of development, China's pesticide industry has gradually developed from imitation of foreign varieties to combination of imitation and independent innovation. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of China, this paper briefly summarizes the development history of agrochemicals discovery in China, and the structure, performance, discovery process, mode of action, patent and registration, and further prospect of most pesticides discovered and developed in China are also introduced.