Traditional fertilizer often has short effect period,and their nutrient was easy to be leached,volatilized and fixed.As the substitute of traditional fertilizer,slow/controlled released fertilizer has lots of advantage and can improve fertilizer utilization efficiently.Thus,developing slow and controlled released fertilizer with low cost,easy manufactory,single-dose application and friendly environment,especially coated fertilizer is the main direction in the future.The definition of slow/controlled released fertilizer was described,and current situation and problems of slow/controlled released fertilizer analyzed in the paper.The develop direction in future was also pointed out.