Abstract: In order to illustrate nutrient use efficiency of controlled-release compound fertilizers (CRCFs), the experiment of tomato fertilizition in pot was conducted by applying the CRCFs and common compound fertilizers ( CCFs) with same N, P and K rates at four application levels. The research results were: The nutrient release of CRCFs could be characterized by changes of available N, P, and K during the tomato-growing seasons. In early stage, the release rate of CRCFs increased slowly. 40 days later, there was a fastigium of release rate, and then the release rate was tardily declined. Release rate of N was the fastest and accumulated N in the soil was the highest, next were P and K. The scheduled nutrient release time of CRCFs for tomato was around 90 days.The nutrient release characteristics of common compound fertilizers (CCFs) in soils appeared like a descending curve . After fertilization, the N, P, and K in CCFs released rapidly. Within ten days, for treatments of CCF3 and CCF4 with higher application rates, the accumulated of nutrients in tomato soils became excessive and tomato suffered a poison due to the high concentration of nutrition ions in the seedling stage.On the contrary, all four-application rates of CRCFs were effective and safe for tomato throughout growing seasons; furthermore, the plant height, leaf area, number of leaves, growth potential of the tomato treated by CRCFs increased markedly in comparison with that treated by CCFs.The CRCFs not only promoted the growth conditions of the tomato, but also enhanced the biomass of tomato markedly . For the treatments with same rate of fertilizer application, no matter at which level, the root dry weight, shoot dry weight and fresh fruit for the CRCFs treatments increased significantly compare to those treated by CCFs. Moreover, the biomass of CRCFs treated tomato was higher than that treated by CCFs even though the application rate of CRCFs was less than the half of rates of CCFs. The optimum amount of fertilizers on tomato for a 250mm by 210 mm pot is N 0.4g / kg soil.