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Here, we evaluated the use of visible near-infrared shortwave-infrared (VIS-NIR-SWIR: 400\u20132500 nm) spectroscopy for the assessment of NFR to provide necessary information for fast, cost-effective and precise fertilization rating. Over 2000 samples were collected from paddy-rice fields in 10 Chinese provinces; samples were added to the Chinese Soil Spectral Library (CSSL). Two kinds of modeling strategies for NFR, quantitative estimation of soil N prior to classification and qualitative by classification, were employed using partial least squares regression (PLSR), locally weighted regression (LWR), and support vector machine discriminant analogy (SVMDA). Overall, both LWR and SVMDA had moderate accuracies with Cohen\u2019s kappa coefficients of 0.47 and 0.48, respectively, while PLSR had fair accuracy (0.37). We conclude that VIS-NIR-SWIR spectroscopy coupled with the CSSL appears to be a viable, rapid means for the assessment of NFR in paddy-rice soil. 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