In April 2023, "Lijiang Spring" successfully selected as a model enterprise in the tea industry for the Brand Strong Country Preferred Project after layers of qualification review and public opinion monitoring. The company information was entered into the Brand Strong Country Preferred Project database, showcasing the brand image to the public on official platforms.

 Guilin Lijiang Tea Factory Co., Ltd. was formerly known as Guilin Lijiang Tea Processing Plant, established in June 2001, and is a professional tea production enterprise. The company has a registered capital of 5 million yuan, owns more than 500 acres of high mountain tea garden base, and can utilize over 10,000 local wild ancient tree tea resources; fixed assets of 6.5 million yuan, a production area of 3,600 square meters, and a complete set of raw tea processing equipment, high-quality tea processing equipment, refined processing equipment, fully automatic bagged tea processing equipment, and compressed tea processing equipment; the company has established a tea industry professional cooperative in the form of company + farmers, driving 315 tea farmers, covering a planting area of more than 3,000 acres; there are four direct sales stores and one branch in Guilin; basically forming an industrial pattern integrating planting, processing, sales, and scientific research. The company mainly produces high-quality green tea, black tea, osmanthus tea, jasmine tea, Liubao tea, and bagged tea, and also operates local agricultural and sideline specialty products such as wild stone cliff tea, dried osmanthus, monk fruit, insect tea, and natural jiaogulan tea.

The registration of the "Lijiang Spring" trademark in 2003 laid the foundation for the establishment of the Guilin Lijiang Tea Factory Co., Ltd. Over the years, the company has controlled the source, focused on product quality, and strictly controlled food safety. Its products have received high recognition from the industry and the public, winning honors such as "2008 Lijiang Spring series tea selected as the most trusted quality brand by consumers," "2010 Lijiang Cuilan won the Gold Award in the China Famous and High-Quality Green Tea Competition," "2011 awarded the title of China Quality Trusted Brand," and "2012 Lijiang Spring Special Grade Osmanthus Tea won the first prize in the second National Tea Competition." Its founder, Huang Rongxiong, has successively become a member of the China Tea Circulation Association, a member of the China Tea Society, vice president of the Guangxi Tea Association, executive director of the Guangxi Tea Society, and president of the Guilin Tea Association. At the end of 1992, he was appointed as a tea engineer by the Guangxi Guilin Tea Factory and registered as an expert in the Guangxi Tea Evaluation and Identification Expert Database by the Guangxi Tea Society in 2014.

Craftsmanship in tea technology promotes agricultural prosperity.For tea, founder Huang Rongxiong has an emotional attachment that is hard to let go. Since childhood, watching his parents grow and process tea, the aroma of tea and tea culture naturally permeated his life and deeply imprinted in Huang Rongxiong's mind. During the college entrance examination, Huang Rongxiong unhesitatingly chose the tea processing major in the Department of Agricultural Machinery at Anhui Agricultural University. After graduation, he was assigned to work at Guangxi Guilin Tea Factory, learning tea processing skills from experienced masters. Huang Rongxiong continuously explored and refined traditional craftsmanship, meticulously handling every process with a spirit of sincerity and a pursuit of excellence, gradually accumulating a set of technical experiences in planting, management, harvesting, production, packaging, storage, and evaluation. He rose from an ordinary technician to the assistant factory manager and deputy secretary of the party committee. In June 2001, due to the restructuring of state-owned enterprises and personnel layoffs, Huang Rongxiong chose to forge his own path, raising 100,000 yuan to establish the Guilin Lijiang Tea Processing Plant. With the joint efforts of all employees, the Guilin Lijiang Tea Factory continuously expanded its business, gradually forming a complete industrial chain of production, supply, and sales.

Create high-quality products, renowned in all directions.As the saying goes, "Three parts depend on picking, seven parts on processing." The quality of tea picking not only affects the quality, yield, and economic benefits of tea but also relates to the growth and lifespan of tea trees. If the freshly picked leaves are not processed in time, they will lose value due to deterioration. What makes Huang Rongxiong proud is that the biggest advantage of the "Lijiang Spring" brand is having its own production base and advanced processing technology.

Over the years, Huang Rongxiong has built a green industrial chain of "company + cooperative + tea farmers," with its own natural high mountain tea garden base of more than 500 acres, utilizing over 10,000 local wild ancient tree tea resources, directly driving more than 300 farming households, covering a planting area of over 3,000 acres, and paying hundreds of thousands of yuan directly to farmers for fresh leaves and dry tea each year, significantly promoting rural revitalization in the local area.

In terms of production technology, the company has advanced raw tea processing equipment, high-quality tea processing equipment, refined processing equipment, fully automatic bagged tea processing equipment, and compressed tea processing equipment, along with years of continuous research and development by the team, creating the unique quality of the "Lijiang Spring" series of teas. For example, in the production of Liubao tea, Huang Rongxiong inherited the fermentation technology of Liubao tea from the Guangxi Guilin Tea Factory in the 1980s, using natural ecological spring water as fermentation water, absorbing the essence of Guilin's distinct four seasons, resulting in products with the unique quality characteristics of "red, strong, aged, and mellow."

Every autumn, the osmanthus flowers in Guilin fill the city with fragrance, making it a delight to the senses. "Our osmanthus tea is made from fresh osmanthus flowers and tea leaves through a special process, not just mixing dried flowers and tea leaves, which is a substitute tea and does not belong to real osmanthus tea," Huang Rongxiong stated. The company's R&D team has conducted extensive research on osmanthus tea processing technology, directly participating in the formulation of one local standard in Guangxi and obtaining two national invention patents. These new technologies create conditions for the company to produce high-quality osmanthus tea.

In Huang Rongxiong's view, tea, as an important representative of Chinese culture exported abroad, must align with the national policies on ecology, health, and environmental protection. Regardless of how innovative the research and development is, it is essential to firmly establish a new development concept, implement high-quality development requirements, promote tea culture, strengthen the tea industry, enhance tea technology, leverage digitalization as a breakthrough, strengthen origin management, ensure product quality, address industrial shortcomings, promote the integration of the three industries, enhance brand effects, and build a coordinated development of tea culture, tea industry, and tea technology to elevate the new pattern of "Lijiang Spring" tea development.