Hai Lu Feng Company

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Story Role / Major Arcs

Financial Growth and Scale

Core Technologies and Intellectual Property

Operations and Industrial Footprint

Corporate Policies

Governance and personnel

• Jiang Miao treated personnel, procurement, and finance as the company’s three core powers and personally reviewed nearly every early hire. 26
• The company introduced employee grades across five major levels—D, C, B, A, and S—with 20 sub-levels. Promotion is tied to service years and contributions. 217 269
• A virtual-share pool equivalent to 5% of company shares was established for employee bonuses, alongside housing provident-fund support and performance-linked benefits. 57
• Executives are barred from managing business in their hometowns under the cross-regional appointment and avoidance system. 238

Supplier and quality controls

• Supplier payments follow the “1361” model: one-month settlement, 30% advance payment, 60% upon delivery, and 10% after acceptance. 144
• Suppliers and technical-license partners can be blacklisted for contract breaches, product-quality failures, illegal activity, or labor and environmental violations. 241 337
• The company applies multi-stage quality inspections to contracted agricultural products and distinguishes self-operated produce from cooperative-farmer produce through labeling. 202 223

Confidentiality and intellectual property

• Following the feed-formula theft, Hai Lu Feng expanded its security department from 27 to 58 personnel and brought in outside security specialists to strengthen confidentiality systems. 145
• The company responds to unauthorized use of its domestic technologies through patent enforcement and lawsuits; foreign firms found to have stolen its technology can be excluded from the Seres market. 145
• In a later quota-corruption investigation, the Supervision Department disciplined 46 employees and canceled improperly obtained planting allocations covering 8,700 mu of durians and 16,400 mu of bananas. 237

Relationships

• Jiang Miao — Founder, owner, chairman, and final decision-maker; he directed the company’s technology commercialization, hiring, expansion, and external negotiations. 28 56 89
• Kagoshima Eel Company — Eastern Ying licensee for eel-breeding technology; received regional exclusivity and later cooperated in litigation against Ryukyu Xihai. 24 35
• Brown Company — European technology licensee that signed a US$30 million eel-breeding technology agreement. 52
• Hai Da Group — Feed-industry partner that licensed Egyptian Catfish fish-meal and de-odorizing-feed technologies. 123 143
• Feed Association — Industry body that invited Jiang Miao to become a vice president and encouraged reduced-fee production authorization for domestic fish-meal producers. 143
• Shanmei local government — Benefited from the company’s taxes, employment, investment, tourism promotion, and supply-chain spending; local authorities provided protection and development support. 102 233

Recognition and Local Impact

• Hai Lu Feng won the Technology Breakthrough Award and Industry Up-and-Coming Enterprise Award. 63
• It prepaid 187.68 million yuan in first-half taxes, prompting VIP-level service from the local Tax Bureau. 102
• In Ma Gong Town, more than 90% of residents were described as having a direct or indirect connection to the company through employment, contracted farming, land leasing, material collection, or local services. 132
• Its Shanmei tourism campaign generated 2.29 million tourist visits and 837.14 million yuan in cumulative Golden Week consumption with partner businesses. 233
• The company’s specialty-store APP gained more than 4 million users in its first day of large-scale gift-based promotion. 169