Scientific Development Planning for China's Salt Chemical Industry

1. The crude salt market layouthas changedChina is one of the world’s largest producersand consumers of salt. In 2004 - 2006, theannual growth rate of its crude salt output wasaround 20%. But it fell to only 7.8% in 2008,the slowest in the last 20 years (CCR2009 No.9).China possesses abundant resources of seasalt, well salt and lake salt.Sea salt is mainly distributed in Liaoning, Hebeiand Shandong provinces, and Tianjin, easternChina and Jiangsu province. Well and rock salt