Jumping into Band Wagon of Great West China Development- Hometown of Panax Pseudoginseng 
        - Daphne Panax Pseudoginseng Industry Press Release Conference Held at Great Hall of the People, Beijing
        It's winter in China capital – Beijing. You can still feel warmth in the chill. At the grand and imposing Great Hall of the People, an impressive press release conference is ongoing amid heating air – this is about panax pseudoginseng product information by the Wenshan Daphne Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. from the Hometown of Panax Pseudoginseng – Wenshan, a remote border area where many minority clans live in Wenshan Zhuang & Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan. The prefectural officials, panax pseudoginseng entrepreneurs, experts and scholars attend this conference. The information is mainly released to the state officials, ministerial officials and central government and Beijing news media.
        That happened on December 2, 2000. The press release conference was co-sponsored by Wenshan Prefectural Party Committee, Wenshan Prefectural People's Government, State TCM Drug Administration, and Wenshan, Yunnan-based Daphne Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Zhang Li, vice prefectural governor of Wenshan chaired the press release conference. Zhang Tianxin, Wenshan Prefectural Party chief, gave an introduction to economic development of the Wenshan prefecture. At the conference, a documentary film Daphne Panax Pseudoginseng Industry in Wenshan - Hometown of Panax Pseudoginseng was shown. 
        Chen Qiusheng, director at the Yunnan Provincial People's Government Beijing Office introduced the officials, experts, scholars and media organizations attending the press release conference, including Bu He, vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, Simayi •Aimaiti, State Councilor, Wang Wenyuan, and vice chairman of CPPCC. Another 28 famous experts, professors and scholars in Beijing also turned out, including 3 national famous TCM drug gurus like Wang Shiwen, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the PLA General Hospital Senile Cardiovascular Research Institute. Other guests included Cheng Xingxuan, vice Yunnan governor, and officials from the Ministry of Public Health, China FDA, Ministry of Labor & Social Security, PLA General Logistics Department, State Economic Coopertion And Trade Commission, Beijing Municipal Department of Public Health, Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, Beijing Pharmaceutical Inc., Beijing Medical Insurance Center, and Beijing Tongzhou Pharmaceutical Company. Tang Xiuwen, Daphne 's Chairman, also joined the lineup of the state and provincial officials. 
        The central and Beijing news organization like CCTV, Beijing TV, Beijing Cable TV, Central People's Radio, Beijing People's Radio, Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily, People's Daily Market Daily, People's Daily Overseas Edition, Economic Daily, Guangming Daily, Health Daily, Xinhua Daily, Science & Technology Daily, Worker's Daily, Beijing Evening, Beijing Youth Daily, China Youth Daily, China Commercial Daily, Beijing Daily, Beijing Radio, Film and TV Art Center, Hometown of Chinese Special Products Daily and Yunnan Daily Beijing Office, who came here with great concern about the remote minority area. CCTV reported this event in the evening news show on the same day. People's Daily, Economic Daily, Guangming Daily and Yunnan Daily also reported this event the next day as highlighted news. Other media covered this conference in their stories later. 
        At the conference, Mr. Zhang Tianxin gave an introduction to the economy and development of the panax pseudoginseng industry in the Wenshan prefecture. The Wenshan prefecture is an old revolutionary and battle area with wide poverty, but it is also a hot place full of energy and vitality. Panax pseudoginseng is a sun-rising industry with biggest promise among the local biological resources. The Daphne Co. leads the way in development of panax pseudoginseng series product in the Wenshan prefecture. The press release conference is aimed to give an introduction to the Wenshan panax pseudoginseng industry and Daphne's development of panax pseudoginseng series products, so as to raise the awareness of panax pseudoginseng, promote access of the Wenshan panax pseudoginseng to the world, benefit more people, and make more contribution to the local economy. We hope, through this press release conference, obtain more care, help and support from your Excellencies, experts, journalists and people of all walks. We hope you to join us in the Great West China Development and make more contribution to construction and development of the Wenshan prefecture and development pf the panax pseudoginseng industry, says Zhang. 
Mr. Bu He noted in his speech that panax pseudoginseng was a valuable item in drugs, but this point was not widely known. Two reasons may be blamed for this: insufficient publicity, and not intensive enough processing (poor sense of brand). There is no a single panax pseudoginseng product reporting annual sales of over 100 million yuan. Wenshan is the hometown of panax pseudoginseng. We should step up effort in publicity and processing of panax pseudoginseng. This press release conference does a good job. We hope the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government hold more conferences like this to step up publicity of panax pseudoginseng TCM drugs. Hope you to do better in intensive processing, and use your own brand and name brand products to develop the market, so that panax pseudoginseng gains a spot on the global market. By doing so, the Wenshan minority area will move to a track of fast economic development. Chen Guozhong and Chen Xiaohua, vice sheriff of the Wenshan County attended the press release conference.
        (Source: December 10, 2000 issue of Kunming Evening, Page 3)