Due to the impact of the international financial crisis, in 2009 Sinochem saw the biggest difficulties and challenges since the New Century began. Facing the unfavorable external environment, the whole company analyzed the business condition with a sober mind, took preemptive measures to cop with changes, steadily focused on the strategic moves, and expanded the market by all means, by so doing it met the performance targets made at the beginning of 2009 in terms of revenue and pre-tax profit.