Aogu Industrial Group is an industrial group that engages in high-energy corn breeding, cultivation, harvesting, deep processing, extraction, sales, and operation as a whole. The group integrates green ecological agriculture with cutting-edge life sciences, and is a modern high-tech biotechnology enterprise that aligns with the national rural revitalization strategy.
Due to the increasing frequency of natural disasters, farmers who work hard for a year may end up losing money, leading to a situation where farmers are no longer willing to farm. In particular, young people mostly choose to work in cities to earn income, leaving only the elderly and children behind to guard the abandoned farmland. China is a large population country, and the country needs to feed 22% of the world’s population with only 7% of the world’s arable land.
China’s grain supply is seriously short, and the country imports more than 30 billion kilograms of grain annually. This year’s Two Sessions specifically proposed, “Unite the entire nation and the entire Party to implement rural revitalization.”
Nowadays, fewer people remain in the countryside, and they no longer use crop straw to raise livestock and poultry or to make fires for cooking. Instead, they use gas canisters and electric stoves. Crop straw is almost useless. If farmers burn crop straw directly, it will pollute the atmosphere, and starting a fire can even violate the law. Therefore, they can only plow the crop straw in the field and let it naturally ferment into eco-friendly fertilizer. However, the large-scale plowing of crop straw affects plowing and planting.
Dr. Zhang Yongbei, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led a research team that has spent over a decade conducting scientific research to extract high-value commodities such as tannins, pectin, cellulose, lignin, and xylose from agricultural straw. To their surprise, they discovered that corn straw could be used to brew natural health drinks called Hezhi wine.
The research team originally planned to use straw to produce alcohol, but after being tested by authoritative institutions, Hezhi wine not only had excellent color and taste, but also contained various nutrients beneficial to the body, including 14 rare elements and 31 trace elements, and 13 kinds of nutrients.
Through extensive experiments, the researchers placed fresh Noble Dendrobium Stem Herb in the wine, and after about 20 days, the Noble Dendrobium Stem Herb sprouted in the wine, and after about a year, it flowered. The Hezhi wine made from polypeptide SOD has a clear and refreshing taste, smooth and pleasant mouthfeel, rich fragrance, long-lasting aftertaste, delicate and smooth texture, rich and mellow body, and a strong taste when held in the mouth, leaving a lingering fragrance that makes one yearn for more. Five national-level wine tasters tasted it and all gave it high praise, saying, “There’s only the state of drinking, no harm from drinking.”
During the entire research and development process, the Chinese Academy of Sciences allocated 150 million yuan in funds, and the Ministry of Agriculture allocated 170 million yuan. The two departments jointly allocated 320 million yuan, and enterprises raised 40 million yuan on their own. A total of 360 million yuan was invested in scientific research funds. During the research and development period, it won 77 national patents and two international gold awards and one international silver award. Dr. Zhang Yongbei received a national reward of 450,000 yuan, second only to the 500,000 yuan awarded to Academician Yuan Longping. The sudden emergence of Hezhi Wine has revolutionized traditional wine-making techniques, filled the gap of brewing wine without grains and water at home and abroad, and achieved the perfect integration of grain polypeptides, plant SOD and Hezhi Wine.
Why does the state attach great importance to the topic of brewing wine without grains? We know that the consumption of grains has three aspects: human food, livestock feed, and grain brewing. Brewing health-preserving wine without grains and water is a revolutionary technological change. In 2022, there were 500 million wine drinkers in China, with an average annual alcohol consumption of 46 catties. Based on the calculation that five catties of sorghum can produce one catty of wine, 115 billion catties of grains are required. China has only 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land, and one-thirtieth of the grain output is required for brewing. According to the data from the website of the General Administration of Customs, 147 million tons (294 billion catties) of grain were imported in 2022. The large-scale production of Hezhi Wine can save two-thirds of the country’s grain imports, which will greatly alleviate China’s grain shortage and security issues. This is not only of great significance to the healthy development of Chinese society but also will surely play an important role in promoting global food security.
The recovery of crop straw for brewing wine means that farmers no longer worry about the impact of straw crushing on ploughing. This not only solves the pain points of farmers but also increases their income and promotes rural revitalization, creating a new era of healthy drinking. Health-preserving wine is not only rich in various nutrients but also does not harm the liver.
Not all crop straw can be used to brew health-preserving wine; only high-energy corn straw can be used. High-energy corn was cultivated by researcher Su Zipan of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences through hybridization of corn and sorghum. The high-energy corn plants are over 3 meters tall, with a grain yield of up to 2,000 catties per mu, and a straw yield of about 8 tons. The nutritional content of the straw is close to that of ordinary first-grade corn grains. Farmers who grow high-energy corn not only increase the yield and income of corn but also use the corn straw for brewing. The juice content of corn straw is 70%, and the wine yield from the straw juice is as high as 60%. Excluding losses, 3 tons of wine can be brewed per mu. If the selling price is 50 yuan per catty, the economic value of corn straw per mu can reach 300,000 yuan.
Aogu Group feeds back the benefits from corn straw to farmers growing corn, gradually promoting common prosperity. The industrialization of high-energy corn has increased economic value, helped increase farmers’ income, agricultural efficiency and rural development, promoted the extension of the industrial chain and the upgrading of the value chain, and solved the predicament of farmers’ small per capita cultivated land, low yield and income. Farmers can achieve a prosperous and stable life at their doorstep, no longer need to leave their hometowns for work, greatly reducing the number of left-behind elderly and children.
The ingredients list of polypeptide SOD Hezhi Wine includes grain polypeptides, plant SOD, corn juice, corn husk, corn silk and corn cob. A certain wine company’s integration of peptides and wine won the first prize of the “Science and Technology Award of China National Food Industry Association” in 2020. It has been found through research that under the action of active peptide coenzymes, certain alcohol decomposition enzymes can be activated in the body to decompose alcohol into carbon dioxide and water and be excreted. Therefore, active peptides can accelerate alcohol metabolism in the body, making active peptide wine have the characteristics of low intoxication and quick sobering up. A certain wine company’s integration of SOD and wine won gold awards for two consecutive years at the International Spirits Exhibition Conference in 2015 and 2016.
SOD integrates six effects of removal, activation, regeneration, repair, self-healing and supply. It has 16 effects such as anti-aging, anti-fatigue, anti-inflammation, anti-tumor, anti-radiation and enhancing liver and kidney functions. It has the function of repairing cells and activating other enzymes in the human body. It is internationally recognized as the “scavenger” of human garbage, the “anti-aging king” and the “beauty pride”. It is the most powerful substance against reactive oxygen species, the “source of all diseases”.
SOD fully activates the liver’s alcohol-decomposing enzymes released by the human body itself, completely solving the world-wide problem of liver damage caused by drinking alcohol for thousands of years. Corn husk is the placenta of corn, and the corn placenta is the most nutritious part of corn. The boiled corn purchased from merchants all has the corn husk, and the taste is excellent. When cooking corn at home, the husk is usually removed, so the taste is not as good as the purchased one. Corn silk has the effects of diuresis, lowering blood pressure, promoting bile secretion, hemostasis, detumescence and reducing heat. It has therapeutic effects on hepatitis and nephritis. It can also lower blood lipid, blood sugar and blood pressure. The volatile alkaloids contained in corn silk have the effects of relieving cough, stopping vomiting, anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory. The flavonoids contained have the effects of strengthening the heart, dilating coronary vessels and anti-arrhythmia. Corn cob has the functions of supplementing dietary fiber, diuresis, sedative and hypnotic, lowering blood lipid and anti-allergy. It has therapeutic effects on nephritis edema, schistosomiasis, liver cirrhosis ascites, cholecystitis, fatty liver and hypertension. Corn cob is exported to Japan, South Korea and other countries in large quantities every year due to its unique medicinal value, earning hundreds of millions of US dollars in foreign exchange for the country.
Hainan Aogu has been working silently in the field of polypeptide SOD. After 21 years of scientific research, it has perfectly integrated many world-leading subversiveness scientific and technological achievements, combined natural physical extraction technology with cutting-edge life science technology, and successfully developed the world’s first polypeptide SOD Hezhi Wine brewed without grains and water.
According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, all diseases originate from congestion and blockage, which is caused by dampness and cold. Tasting polypeptide SOD Hezhi Wine makes the body heat up and sweat profusely. Both Chinese and Western medicine unanimously recognize that for every one degree increase in body temperature, immunity is enhanced by 5 to 6 times. When body temperature rises, dampness and cold are forced out of the body, and congestion and blockage in the body also disappear.
Aogu Group spreads medical knowledge and benefits the world through medicine. Combining the concept of Yin-Yang and Five Elements of all things being mutually reinforcing and restricting, and integrating modern biotechnology with the multiple world-leading scientific research achievements collected by the Science and Technology Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff Department, through the perfect integration of the National Supercomputing Center (Changsha), the world’s first polypeptide SOD Hezhi Wine brewed without grains and water has emerged. It will contribute to rural revitalization, empower national health, promote common prosperity, stimulate domestic consumption, and steadily move away from the virtual to the real, and will surely make
