The Top Ten Important Events Affecting the Innovative Development of Yishizhuang in 2014

I. Professor Xu Xiucheng, a Famous Expert in Phosphatic and Compound Fertilizers in China, Visits Yishizhuang
On February 14, 2014, Professor Xu Xiucheng from Zhengzhou University and his entourage visited Yishizhuang. After touring the company's production workshops, honor room, laboratory and other office areas, Professor Xu had an amicable conversation with General Manager Liu and spoke highly of the company's products.
In the "Agricultural Materials Guide" published on April 4 of the same year, Professor Xu and others wrote an article titled "Marching Towards the Ideal Complete Fertilizer". In this article, Yishizhuang was highly praised. The article mentioned that "Hubei Yishizhuang Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. has, for many years, used calcium magnesium phosphate fertilizer, superphosphate, and ammonium sulfate as nutrient regulators to produce medium-concentration, multi-nutrient, functional compound fertilizers with a total nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium nutrient content of 30% to 40%. These fertilizers are applied in the cultivation of citrus fruits, leafy vegetables, rapeseed, corn, rice, etc. When the same amount of this fertilizer is applied, its fertilizer efficiency is equivalent to or exceeds that of ordinary compound fertilizers with a total nutrient content of 45%, and it also improves the quality of crops."

Professor Xu took a group photo with General Manager Liu of the company during his visit to the company.
II. Yishizhuang's formulated tea fertilizer conducts experimental demonstrations at multiple experimental stations of the national tea industry technology system and is highly praised.
Yishizhuang's formulated tea fertilizer has carried out experimental demonstrations at multiple experimental stations of the national tea industry technology system. Among the 23 experimental tea gardens across the country, the fresh tea leaf yields in 19 tea gardens increased after applying Yishizhuang's special tea fertilizer. The Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences summarized and concluded that using Yishizhuang's special tea fertilizer as the base fertilizer in tea gardens can significantly increase the fresh tea leaf yield and boost farmers' income.
III. Professor Lu Jianwei from Huazhong Agricultural University explained on-site the one-time fertilization technology of Yishizhuang's formulated rapeseed fertilizer at the National Rapeseed Conference in Gong'an County.
On the morning of May 15, the "Demonstration Site Meeting of the High-efficiency Production Mode of the Whole-process Mechanization of Rapeseed" hosted by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences was successfully held in Gong'an County, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province. The excellent fertilizer effect of Yishizhuang's special slow-release and controlled-release rapeseed fertilizer, which plays a role throughout the process with one-time fertilization, has been widely recognized by leaders and experts. At this on-site observation meeting, Professor Lu Jianwei, a post scientist of the National Rapeseed Industry Technology System, even stood in the experimental field and explained the technology to the participants.

Professor Lu Jianwei, a post scientist of the National Rapeseed Industry Technology System,
introduced Yishizhuang's one-time fertilization technology of slow-release, controlled-release and full-nutrient fertilizer.
IV. Academician Fu Tingdong observed the whole-process mechanization of rapeseed in Hubei Province on-site and highly affirmed the excellent fertilizer effect of Yishizhuang's formulated rapeseed fertilizer.
On the morning of May 18, with gentle wind and bright sunshine, at the Zengji Zhangchi High-yield Rapeseed Creation Base jointly built by Huazhong Agricultural University and Shayang County in Shayang, Hubei Province, which is a major rapeseed-producing county in China, at the scene of the noisy rapeseed mechanical harvesting, General Manager Liu of the company had an on-site communication with Academician Fu Tingdong, known as the "Father of Rapeseed in China". Academician Fu Tingdong put forward valuable suggestions on how to further develop the special rapeseed fertilizer and encouraged General Manager Liu to do a good job in the promotion and application of Yishizhuang's special rapeseed fertilizer.

V. General Manager Liu of Yishizhuang accompanied Professor Hu Chengxiao and his entourage to inspect the experimental effects of various formulations of Yishizhuang's formulated citrus fertilizer.
From August 20th to 21st, General Manager Liu of Yishizhuang accompanied Professor Hu Chengxiao, a post scientist of the National Citrus Industry Technology System and the Deputy Dean of the Graduate School of Huazhong Agricultural University, and his entourage to specially visit various experimental sites in Yichang City to inspect the application effects of Yishizhuang's formulated citrus fertilizer. Through on-site investigations, it was found that for the experimental citrus trees treated with Yishizhuang's formulated citrus fertilizer, not only did the growth and fruiting of the citrus trees outperform the control group, but it could also effectively prevent nutrient deficiency problems, and had a relatively prominent preventive effect on physiological yellow leaves. Visually on-site, there were basically no deformed fruits such as cucumber-shaped fruits and stone-shaped fruits. According to Professor Hu's on-site introduction: "After long-term application of Yishizhuang's special citrus fertilizer, it can significantly improve the problem of alternate bearing of citrus fruits, and can obviously enhance various physiological and biochemical technical indicators of the quality of citrus fruits, both in terms of appearance and internal quality."

Professor Hu Chengxiao carefully listened to the person in charge of the Yiling District experimental station reporting on the field test situation of Yishizhuang's citrus fertilizer (Professor Hu is the second person from the left, and Liu Jin, a senior agronomist and Deputy Director of the Yiling District Agricultural Bureau, is the first person from the right).
VI. The fertilizer effect of Yishizhuang's special vegetable fertilizer (for fruit vegetables) is outstanding in the demonstration base of high-mountain vegetables in Changyang, Hubei Province.
On August 27th, the carefully prepared on-site observation meeting of Yishizhuang's slow-release and controlled-release special vegetable fertilizer was successfully held in Yuxiakou Town, Changyang County, Hubei Province.
The on-site observation activity was led by Director Cao, Director of the Agricultural Technology Center in Yuxiakou Town, Changyang County. The participants successively went to the Yishizhuang vegetable experimental fields in Buzheng Village and Gaofeng Village. While carefully observing the application effect of Yishizhuang in the pepper experimental field, they earnestly listened to Director Cao's wonderful explanation.
After the on-site observation, a brief indoor meeting and exchange session were held. Director Liu of the Soil and Fertilizer Station in Changyang County fully affirmed the application effect of Yishizhuang's special fertilizer at the exchange meeting. He emotionally said, "Yishizhuang is trustworthy. This company is one of the fifty demonstration enterprises for soil testing and formulated fertilization in the country. Our Soil and Fertilizer Station has been cooperating with Yishizhuang since the development of high-mountain vegetables in Huoshaoping more than ten years ago, and has made great contributions to the high-mountain vegetables in the whole county!"

A group photo of all the members attending the on-site observation meeting of soil testing and formulated fertilization in Yuxiakou Town, Changyang County.
VII. Vice President Shen Qirong of Nanjing Agricultural University and his entourage visit and inspect Yishizhuang.
On November 8th, Shen Qirong and his entourage from Nanjing Agricultural University were invited to visit our company. They successively visited the newly launched organic fertilizer project of the company and the production area of Yishizhuang's formulated fertilizer, and listened to the special report delivered by General Manager Liu.
When inspecting the new organic fertilizer project of Yishizhuang, Vice President Shen inquired in detail about the technological route of the organic fertilizer. He fully recognized Yishizhuang's upcoming improvement of the organic fertilizer processing technology. He immediately expressed his willingness to carry out long-term technical cooperation with Yishizhuang by applying the most cutting-edge research achievements in the field of microbiology of his university, and strive to promote the upgrading of Yishizhuang's series of products.

General Manager Liu took a group photo with the inspection team (Huang Qiwei is the first person from the left, Shen Qirong is the third person from the right, and Dean Li is the second person from the right).
VIII. Yishizhuang Wins the Title of "National High-tech Enterprise"
In October 2014, Hubei Yishizhuang Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. was honored with the title of "National High-tech Enterprise". The reason why Yishizhuang was able to obtain this honor relies on its strong scientific research support and first-class product efficacy. Taking this as a symbol, Yishizhuang will further follow the product research and development concept of "soil testing and formulating fertilizers, and precise fertilization", and make greater efforts to develop new scientific and technological products that are more popular in the market.

IX. Yishizhuang is about to fully develop organic fertilizers and water-soluble fertilizers.
Recently, Yishizhuang has successfully joined hands with Yichang Huifeng. With the combination of their strong strengths, they are ready to vigorously develop the organic fertilizer market. At that time, the new Huifeng will produce organic fertilizers, biological organic fertilizers, humic acid organic water-soluble fertilizers, and organic-inorganic compound fertilizers. At the same time, Yishizhuang also successfully established "Hubei Judefeng Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd." in August this year. This company will jointly develop water-soluble fertilizers with the team of Professor Zhang Chenglin from South China Agricultural University. It can be foreseen that Yishizhuang is building a powerful R&D platform and an innovative product cluster for the new decade.
X. Yishizhuang's formulated citrus fertilizer enters the national citrus market.
The research, development, and promotion of Yishizhuang's special formulated citrus fertilizer have been included as part of the national citrus industry technology system. Academician Deng Xiuxin, the President of Huazhong Agricultural University, is the chief scientist of the citrus industry technology system. He highly affirms the special formulated citrus fertilizer jointly developed by the expert team of Huazhong Agricultural University and the company. Through seven or eight years of research, development, and upgrading, Yishizhuang's special formulated citrus fertilizer has now obtained a national invention patent and has been successfully expanded in citrus-producing areas such as Nanfeng in Jiangxi, Fengjie in Chongqing, Zigui in Hubei, Shimen in Hunan, and Guilin in Guangxi. Recently, Yishizhuang's products have been successfully launched in Ganzhou in Jiangxi, Xinning in Hunan, Mayang in Hunan, and Hongjiang in Hunan. A high-standard launch meeting will soon be held in Zhijiang, Hunan. In the next step, it will also be expanded to citrus-producing areas such as Pinghe in Fujian and Meishan in Sichuan, striving to create the No. 1 brand of professional fertilization for citrus in China.
Dear respected partners:
Hello! In the past year, with your meticulous care and full support, Yishizhuang has achieved satisfactory performance. In this year, we have been honored with the title of a national high-tech enterprise, which is a new starting point for our innovative development; in this year, we have successfully joined hands with Yichang Huifeng, which is a new engine for our product expansion... In the new year, we will always adhere to the historical mission of "leading scientific fertilization and bringing benefits to thousands of households", forge ahead, strive to explore, and truly produce the "ideal complete fertilizer" for the vast number of farmers! As the bell of 2015 rings, Mr. Liu Zufeng, the General Manager of Yishizhuang, and all employees wish you: a happy New Year's Day! A happy family! All the best!