Pharmaceutical is responsible for the development, production and marketing of medications. Thus, its immense importance as a global sector is inarguable. In 2014, total pharmaceutical revenues worldwide had exceeded one trillion U.S. dollars for the first time. North America is responsible for the largest portion of these revenues, due to the leading role of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. However, as in many other industries, the Chinese pharmaceutical sector has shown the highest growth rates over previous years. The pharmaceutical industry has become a large and very complex enterprise. At the end of the 20th century, most of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies were located in North America, Europe, and Japan; many of the largest were multinational, having research, manufacturing, and sales taking place in multiple countries. The pharmaceutical industry is best known for manufacturing pharmaceutical drugs which aim to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent...
Pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for Preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest. Use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant. Use as a nitrogen stabilizer Pesticide, any toxic substance used to kill animals or plants that cause economic damage to crop or ornamental plants or are hazardous to the health of domestic animals or humans. All pesticides interfere with normal metabolic processes in the pest organism and often are classified according to the type of organism they are intended to control. (See herbicide; insecticide; fungicide; fumigant.) China's chemical pesticide production amounted to an annual production volume of about 3.7 million tons in 2014. The import volume of pesticides to China maintained a steady growth and reached over 76 thousand tons in 2013 with an import value of over 690 million U.S. dollars that year. However, this figure was still insignificant compared to the export value of China pesticid...