Chapter 366: Quanjie Pharmaceutical

The representatives of the pharmaceutical factory in Zhedong Province that Lu Zhenghong mentioned arrived. There were five of them, and the leader was named Li Wanfu, who was the vice president of this pharmaceutical factory and also the second largest shareholder of the factory.

This pharmaceutical factory is located in the city with the most active private economy in Zhedong Province - Duzhou City. The name of the pharmaceutical factory is Quanjie Pharmaceutical Factory, named after their largest shareholder and legal representative, Feng Quanjie.

In the early days of reform and opening up, Feng Quanjie and Li Wanfu and others started doing business together, and later they set up this pharmaceutical factory, which has now become the largest private pharmaceutical factory in Zhedong Province.

Now they want to continue to expand the production scale, but they have encountered development bottlenecks in Duzhou. To expand the scale, they can only invest abroad. Lu Zhenghong had a friendship with Feng Quanjie before and heard this information, so he suggested that he go to Meng Hu Ling to take a look. Therefore, Feng Quanjie let Li Wanfu come.

Li Wanfu is a middle-aged man in his forties, looking very capable. Arriving at the Meng Hu Ling Township government, they asked for Su Xinghui's office and found Su Xinghui.

Su Xinghui was introducing experience to two people from the neighboring Hongshan County in his office. For such things, he was now suffering, but there was no way. Others came and named Su Xinghui, all coming for his reputation, and he couldn't bluntly refuse.

Seeing someone looking for him, he quickly got up to greet them. Li Wanfu extended his right hand to Su Xinghui: "Township Head Su, right? I am Li Wanfu from Duzhou Quanjie Pharmaceutical Factory. Secretary-General Lu should have already called you, right?"

As soon as Su Xinghui heard this, he held Li Wanfu's hand and said: "So it's General Manager Li. Secretary-General Lu has already called me, come in and sit."

Those two people from Hongshan County were quite sensible. Hearing that Su Xinghui had important guests, they said goodbye and went out.

Li Wanfu smiled and sat down on a chair, and the people who came with him also sat down. Su Xinghui made tea for them, sat down, and asked: "General Manager Li, your factory wants to build another pharmaceutical base?"

Li Wanfu nodded: "Yes, our factory wants to expand the production scale, so we want to find a place to build a new branch factory. Our General Manager Feng is friends with Secretary-General Lu, and Secretary-General Lu recommended your place to General Manager Feng. General Manager Feng didn't have time to come over these days, so he let me come first to investigate the situation here."

Su Xinghui nodded happily: "Then the situation here couldn't be more suitable. Several villages here have started planting Chinese herbal medicines this year, and several villages are still planting arbor forests of precious Chinese herbal medicines such as Du Zhong, so there will be no shortage of raw materials here in the future."

Li Wanfu said: "We have already heard Secretary-General Lu introduce these situations, and we have also read the reports in the newspapers. Then can you take us to see these villages today?"

Su Xinghui said: "That's of course no problem. Please wait a moment, General Manager Li, I'll go report to our Secretary and Township Head."

Su Xinghui told Chen Hongfu and Dong Jianshu the news of Li Wanfu's arrival. As soon as the two heard that another investor had come, they were happy and immediately went to Su Xinghui's office to meet Li Wanfu and his party.

Duzhou businessmen are also quick-acting. After meeting Chen Hongfu and Dong Jianshu, he immediately proposed to go to the village to see. Chen Hongfu and Dong Jianshu could only follow them down to the village.

The first place they went to was Yezhugou Village. Yezhugou Village had the largest planting area of Chinese herbal medicines and also had a Du Zhong protection forest base. If Quanjie Pharmaceutical Factory really intended to build a factory in Meng Hu Ling, this would be the best factory site.

The Chinese herbal medicines here had already grown saplings several inches long, and the Du Zhong saplings were already more than a foot long. Li Wanfu wandered in the medicine field for a long time and carefully looked at those saplings. He was from a pharmaceutical factory, so of course, he recognized these medicine saplings. The more he looked, the more excited he became, saying repeatedly: "Good place, good place!"

He went to see that piece of Du Zhong forest again. This time he was even more excited. Du Zhong is a very precious Chinese herbal medicine. No one knew better than him. This kind of raw material was hard to find everywhere, but he didn't expect there to be such a large piece here.

Su Xinghui pointed to the other side of the hillside and said: "General Manager Li, there is also a large piece of wild Du Zhong forest over there. Those are all mature Du Zhong trees, and it is completely possible to collect Du Zhong bark."

Du Zhong is a very precious Chinese herbal medicine. Because wild Du Zhong forests are very rare in the country, this kind of herbal medicine has always been in short supply. As a private pharmaceutical factory, Quanjie Pharmaceutical Factory is very difficult to get this kind of raw material. Therefore, this piece of Du Zhong forest is really too precious for Li Wanfu.

The medicinal part of Du Zhong is the bark, but this bark cannot be peeled casually. If peeled casually, the Du Zhong tree will wither. Therefore, to collect Du Zhong bark, special methods must be used, and they must be carried out in turns. After a tree is cut for bark, it must wait

for its wounds to heal and new bark to grow before it can be cut again.

With such a collection method, the yield of Du Zhong certainly cannot be high. If too much is collected at once, it is equivalent to draining the pond to catch the fish. It is precisely because of this special nature that Du Zhong is becoming rarer and rarer, because some people are too short-sighted and want to peel the bark of the whole tree at once to sell for money and get rich. If they do this, can that tree not die?

This piece of artificial Du Zhong forest was only planted this year, and it would take at least ten years to mature. Even so, Li Wanfu felt very lucky. He heard Su Xinghui say that there was a piece of wild Du Zhong forest over there, and he was even happier.

Li Wanfu ran in the direction Su Xinghui pointed. A middle-aged man in his forties ran faster than a young man, and the several people he brought also ran over.

Seeing their excitement, Su Xinghui looked at Chen Hongfu and Dong Jianshu, and they all smiled happily, and they also ran over.

Turning around that hillside, a very large area of Du Zhong forest appeared in front of Li Wanfu. This was a wild Du Zhong forest. Of course, now this piece of Du Zhong forest also had special people to maintain it, and some shrubs and weeds in the Du Zhong forest had been cleared away.

Some of the trees in these Du Zhong forests had been growing for decades, visually estimated to be nearly 20 meters high, as thick as one person could embrace. Li Wanfu excitedly walked to the tallest Du Zhong tree, looked up and down, and saw no scars on the bark of this tree. It should not have been collected for bark.

Li Wanfu asked: "How big is the area of this wild Du Zhong forest?"

Su Xinghui said: "About a thousand acres."

"So big!" Li Wanfu said: "Then there must be tens of thousands of adult Du Zhong trees? This is a huge wealth. Have these Du Zhong trees never been collected for bark?"

Su Xinghui said: "Never collected, because Meng Hu Ling is a relatively closed area and has not been developed. This is certainly not a good thing for Meng Hu Ling, but it is a good thing for these Du Zhong trees. Otherwise, if it were developed in an disorderly way, this forest might have been destroyed in a few years."

Li Wanfu nodded thoughtfully: "What you said makes a lot of sense."

Suddenly, Li Wanfu became excited: "Just because of this piece of Du Zhong forest, I am already inclined to invest and build a factory here. Now it depends on how other situations here are."

Su Xinghui said: "Please rest assured about this, General Manager Li. Our investment environment here is quite good. The biggest bottleneck was the traffic problem, but General Manager Li must have seen it on the way here. A secondary highway is being built from our county seat to Meng Hu Ling. For a county seat, this is already a very high-grade highway, so traffic is no longer a problem now."

Li Wanfu of course saw the construction site of that secondary highway on the way here. He nodded: "It is indeed a great courage for your county to be able to build a secondary highway in the county."

Su Xinghui said: "Building this secondary highway cost 6 million, just for the purpose of attracting investment in Meng Hu Ling."

Li Wanfu said: "Just because of your courage, I dare say that Meng Hu Ling will definitely develop in the future."

Chen Hongfu smiled: "Borrowing General Manager Li's auspicious words! I hope General Manager Li's enterprise can successfully invest and build a factory here!"

Li Wanfu said: "As long as your other conditions are okay, I will notify General Manager Feng to come over immediately, and I will try my best to persuade him to agree to invest and build a factory here. I think he will agree. This piece of Du Zhong forest adds too many points to you."

Su Xinghui said: "General Manager Li, I have to say one thing first. Even if you invest and build a factory here, this piece of Du Zhong forest must be developed in a planned way and cannot be drained to catch the fish."

Li Wanfu said solemnly: "Township Head Su, please rest assured, of course, I understand this truth. We will definitely teach the local common people to carry out circular cutting of these Du Zhong trees in turns, and we will absolutely not let any Du Zhong tree wither."