With the development of global economy and the development in the field of science and technology, the surfactant industry gets rapid development, its applications in daily chemical industry development to the oil, textiles, food, agriculture, new materials, etc. The research and development of environmental friendly surfactants is imperative, and wide prospect of market, safe, gentle and easy biodegradation characteristics of development and the application of surfactants to the trend of The Times. The product structure and the application field in our country, the future anionic surfactant alkyl benzene sulfonate and will tend to reduce the use of alkyl sulfonate, fatty alcohol sulfate increased; Double tenth eight cationic surfactant alkyl dimethyl ammonium chloride showed a trend of decrease; Fatty alcohol ether non-ionic surfactants showed a trend of increase; The zwitterionic surfactant betaine remained relatively stable.

The surfactant industry in China started late, weak foundation, in order to adapt to the international trend of development, should focus on the future development of glycosidic surfactant; System research and development of soybean phospholipids kind of surfactant, phospholipids both surface activity, and biological activity, is a special surfactant; Development of sucrose fatty acid ester series products, sucrose fatty acid ester is non-toxic, odourless, without excitant, the advantages of easy biodegradability, as a food additive (emulsifier); The catalytic applications of surfactants in industry, in order to reduce industrial production cost.