The Cigarette Selling Department of Hunan (Company)

The Cigarette Selling Department (Company) was founded in July 1983. In 1984, it formally belongs to the National Cigarette Selling Department-Chinese Cigarette Company. It forms management system of connection of agriculture, industry and business on organization, and the connection of producing, supplying and selling, and also the connection of selling inside and outside of the nation. There are 9 cigarette factories, 2 tobacco re-flue-cured factories, one tobacco machinery factory, one Tabasco materiel factory, 116 enterprises (area, 州, city, county, district companies), one tobacco polytechnic school and one technology school in the tobacco system. There is 37000 working staff, and the total capital is 19,300,000,000 Yuan.
In the 16 years after the founding of the Cigarette Selling Department of Hunan, it insists the leading position of technology, and practicing the reform powerfully. It makes the historical change of the industries from the style of the benefit from the output and speed to the style of the benefit from the quality and organization. The tobacco producing and cigarette producing have become the pillar industry of Hunan. The taboo not only meets the need of the cigarette product in the province, but also becomes the key economy crop for the tobacco farmers to get rid of poverty. Flue-cured tobacco is high quality product in the nation. They are exported in lot. Apart from the four high quality products with the brand of “Baisha”, “Changsha”, “Furong”, and “Hongdou” which are of large amount of producing, strong ability of competition, wide market coverage, and good economy benefit, there are a series of new products with high technology and low tar, such as “Selected Baisha”, “Jinsha”, “Furongwang” and “Furonghou”. They are well sold in the market, and are with good market prospects. The tax of the industry and business enterprises is increasing steadily. It increases from 2,000,000,000 Yuan in 1989 to 8,200,000,000 Yuan in 1998. It realizes keeping the second place of the tax making in the cigarette industry of the whole country for 8 years.