Established in 1988, Huaxia Company is
China's first export-oriented enterprise especially engaging
in production of claret. Today, the company is subordinate to
China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import & Export
(Group) Corporation (CNCOFI&EC), one of the world's Top
500 Enterprises.
Since the company set up its winery,
it led to carry out production at home strictly in the light
of "International Wine Brewing Rules". It classified
products by "place of origin, variety and vintage"
and produced high quality products, enabling its overall development
to meet international requirements in all aspects. Its Huaxia
Great Wall series of claret is exported to over 10 countries
and regions including Europe, filling the blank that no domestic
claret is produced for export. In 1998, Huaxia Great Wall
was titled "Chinese Famous Brand for Export" by
the State Commodity Inspection Bureau. And since 1994, the
company was continuously appraised by the country as "Quality-
and Benefit-oriented Advanced Enterprise", and has won
over 30 major awards at home and abroad. In 2000, Huaxia Great
Wall won the title "Chinese Famous Wine Protected Brand",
and in 2002, Changli wine became one of the first groups of
the state's "Protected Place of Origin".
For over 10 years, thanks to strong
brand position of its products in domestic and international
markets, the enterprise embarked the road of transnormal development.
Its total asset increased from RMB 7 million in the early
stage to today's RMB234 million, and its annual output increases
from 1000 tons in the early stage to today's 15314 tons. By
the end of June 2002, the company has achieved output of 8420
tons, sales revenue of RMB195 million and before-tax profit
of RMB62.59 million, up by 28%, 32% and 63% respectively over
the same period of previous year. The company is leading in
sales revenue and No. 1 in profits and tax contribution per
capita in the same sector. The enterprise has won a series
of honorary titles as "National First Group of Technical
Innovation-oriented Spark Leading Enterprise" and "Top
10 Enterprises in Agricultural Industrialization", and
achieved rapid economic and social growth in a leaping manner.
With its powerful superiority, Huaxia Great Wall has developed
into one of three major brands in China's wine sector.
The company's operational strategies
include the following:
I. Setting up Brand of Huaxia Great
Wall, Producing International Quality
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Huaxia Company is located at Changli County, Hebei, a place
surrounded with mountains and seas named by the nation as
"Home of Viniferous Grape". With its peculiar natural
and geographic advantages, Huaxia led to import detoxified
saplings of international famous breeds, such as Chixiazhu,
Meiluzhe, Xiaduoli and Huibinuo, and became the first to build
up the largest domestic viniferous grape base. It realized
"base-scaled production of raw materials, base planted
with fine breeds and regionalization of fine breeds",
enabling a perfect combination of good land, good vintage
and fine breeds most suitable for growing at the place. At
the same time, the company imported from Germany, France,
Italy and the US a whole set of internationally advanced equipment,
including that for fermenting, vinifying, purifying, deep
filtering, cool stabilizing and bottling, ensuring high-efficient
operation of modern management mode and modern production
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"Greenness and vintage, high-efficiency
and innovation, practicality and good faith, brand and leadingness"
is the quality principle the company has stuck to all along.
Today, the company has formed 30 varieties of 3 major Great
Wall wine series: claret series represented by Chixiazhu Claret
of 92,94 and 95 vintages, white wine series represented by
Xiaduoli of 96 and 98 vintages, and pink wine series. In 2001,
the company developed another 6 varieties. After winning the
Special Award at the 29th France International Wine Appraisement
Fair in 1989 and the Gold Prize at the 14th Paris International
Food Exposition in 1990, Great Wall wine won Silver Prizes
at Shanghai International Wine and Firewater Appraisement
Fair in both 2001 and 2002. It became the sole Chinese brand
winning a prize at the fair. In 2001, Great Wall wine won
No. 1 Claret and No. 2 White Wine at the 4th Beijing Hilton
International Wine and Food Demonstration Fair. All the above
prizes lay down groundwork for Huaxia Great Wall wine to become
an international brand.
II. Accumulating Strength in R&D,
Achieving Remarkable Results in New Products Development
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With human as the core, improvement of overall quality is
the drive source for long-term development of the company.
And the company sticks to the operational principle - orienting
to science and technologies, relying on quality to seek development
and asking for benefits to management. Since the 7th 5-year
Plan period, the company has undertaken 6 state-level science
and research projects. China's first bottle claret was produced
here, filling the domestic blank. Today, the company has 4
international and national wine appraisers. With technicians
over junior collage level accounting for 76% of total employees,
the company tops the sector in the country in education background
and professional quality of employees.
To enable leading vinifying technologies
to be converted into productivity in the first time, the company
accelerates information exchange and cooperation between enterprise
and scientific research institutes and universities. The company
has set up the Huaxia Scientific Research Center in collaboration
with domestic institutes of high learning to develop new products,
initiating an operational way integrating production, study
and research. In 2001, the company cooperated with the Northwest
Agriculture and Forests Technologies University, China Agriculture
University and Jiangnan University in research on picking
and breeding and planting of grape breeds, vinifying techniques,
and construction projects of "AA-grade Green Food Base".
In 2002, the company applied for several province-level and
state-level major scientific research projects, including
the state-level "50000-ton High-level Claret Processing
and Rebuilding Works", "Grape and Wine R&D Center
Construction Project", the state-level "Technical
Innovation-oriented Spark Leading Enterprise", "Integration
of Key Technologies in Environment-friendly Grape Production
and Demonstration of Industrialization", and "AOC-grade
Viniferous Grape Origin Project Research - Chixiazhu".
And such projects were listed among those to which the country
gives top priorities for developing and supporting. In March
2002, Great Wall wine was titled as "First Group of Inspection-exempted
Products" by National Quality Supervision, Inspection
and Quarantine Administration. In June of the same year, they
were verified as "AA-grade Green Food" by China
Green Food Development Center, and became first domestic wind
brand meeting the highest world's standards.
III. Expanding Production Scale, Improving
Competence in Global Market
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Through its marketing strategy "Driving domestic sales
with exports and excelling the strong with the fine",
Huaxia soon occupied domestic and international markets. In
face of intense global competition after China's accession
to WTO, as the leading Great Wall wine enterprise in CNCOFI&EC's
wine division and China's backbone enterprise in claret, Huaxia
increased its investment in recent years, and tried to meet
competition in global wine market with development of scale.
For three successive years, Huaxia invested in infrastructure
expansion. It built another 6 rows of underground arch cellars
with Chinese traditional building characteristics, the largest
underground granite cellars in Asia. It imported from Italy
two sets of 10000- and 15000-bottle/hour full automatic bottling
production lines, over 6000 quality oak wood barrels, and
imported several quick refrigerators, internationally advanced
cross-flow filters and wine analyzers. And it also rebuilt
a group of wine tanks and refrigerating tanks. Today, Huaxia
has realized an annual production of 30000 tons. Meanwhile,
the company sets up the International Viniferous Grape Demonstration
Park according to international mode, providing the first-hand
data for scaled development of grape base and development
of new products.
With its first-class producing area,
first-class technical team and first-class equipment, in face
of new international competition, Huaxia Company will continue
to take advantages of its strong brand. By 2005, its annual
production will reach 50000 tons, sales revenue will exceed
RMB 1.2 billion and its profits and tax contribution will
reach RMB 300 million. The company will realize intelligentization
of production procedures, automatization of control system,
computer network and scientization of management, and build
up a wine industrial park integrating ecological environment
protection, tourism and sightseeing and wine culture, making
Huaxia Great Wall Claret No. 1 Brand in Chinese claret.
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