Shaanxi

"The history of Chinese strong spirit (baijiu) is not very long, roughly maturing during the late 14th century at the end of the Yuan dynasty and the beginning of the Ming dynasty. The distillation technique of baijiu is not originally from China but was learned from the Persians in the Middle East. Li Shizhen mentioned in the “Compendium of Materia Medica” that distillation techniques came from the Western world. There is much debate among academics on this, including my studies on Li Shizhen. Before the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic of China, literati and officials valued yellow wine, and baijiu was not considered elegant. In the early days, the prosperous regions for baijiu brewing were Shanxi and Shaanxi, with Sichuan spirits learning and innovating from them."

"BYD was founded in 1995 and is a private high-tech enterprise. At the beginning of its establishment, BYD had only 20 employees and was virtually unknown in Shenzhen, a city filled with many enterprises. However, unexpectedly, 14 years later, it developed into a high-tech private enterprise listed in Hong Kong. Now, BYD has built nine major production bases in Guangdong, Beijing, Shaanxi, Shanghai, and other places, covering nearly 7 million square meters in total area, and has branches or offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, and other places, with a total of more than 130,000 employees and total assets of nearly 35 billion yuan."