1909, a man named Cai Rongjiu founded Rongxing Tobacco Company, the first handmade cigarette factory in Yunnan, and wrote the first page of the history of modern cigarette industry in Yunnan.
1February, 920, Dali Renwang founded "Canger Renzhi Tobacco Company" in Xiaguan, and made 50 packs of "Sun", "Moon" and "Star" brand cigarettes by hand.
After a lapse of two years, in the autumn of 1922, Yu, the younger brother of the chief of staff of Yunnan Governor who used to make cigarettes in Shanghai, returned to Kunming. With the support of the warlord Tang, he founded the first machine cigarette factory in Yunnan-"Asian Tobacco Company", which marked that the cigarette industry in modern Yunnan reached a new height.
The company has two departments of business and production, and purchased advanced cigarette equipment from the United States and Japan from Shanghai, with more than 50 workers/kloc-0. To commemorate Yu Enjun, a follower of General Cai E and his younger brother who was assassinated in 19 18, and to commemorate the "Double Ninth Festival Uprising", Yunnan tobacco brand was built with "Double Ninth Festival". The brand "Jiujiu" and "Daguanlou" are produced, and "Jiujiu" brand cigarettes are the company's signature.
The decline of Asian tobacco companies
However, Longyun soon defeated Tang as the "King of Yunnan", and the preferential conditions for tax reduction and exemption obtained by Asian tobacco companies were cancelled. Once ambitious, it can no longer rely on official support and protection, and suddenly it is in trouble.
According to the Chronicle of Kunming City, at the beginning of Long Yun's seizure of local political power in Yunnan in 1928, the financial department of Yunnan accumulated too much education funds, which led to the failure to pay the salaries of primary and secondary school teachers and made it difficult to maintain their lives. So Gong Zheng, director of Yunnan Education Department, got Long Yun's consent, and set aside all the cigarette taxes within the unified taxation scope of the financial department as special funds for education, named "cigarette donation".
It is announced that all products of Asian Tobacco Company will be tax-free, and foreign cigarettes and local hand-rolled cigarettes (including cigars) will be taxed according to regulations to ensure the normal collection of tax quota for education funds in Yunnan. In fact, the cigarette tax at that time was levied according to grades, which was not high.
However, the hope of setting up an industry was pinned on tax exemption, and I suddenly lost my way. Not long after, the Asian company applied for closure on the grounds that it could not maintain production, thus ending its history of establishing a local cigarette industry. Yu, the founder of Yunnan tobacco industry, seems to come and go like a rainbow after the rain, which makes people's thoughts complicated.
Asian Tobacco Company was finally accepted by the provincial government and renamed as South China Tobacco Company. However, the company has not got rid of the shadow of Asian tobacco companies, and its production is still abnormal. Finally forced to close down, finally closed down.
Until the establishment of 1943 Yunnan Paper and Tobacco Factory, "Jiujiu" brand cigarette still became its main product and registered its trademark. At that time, straight cigarettes 10, canned cigarettes 50. Among them, the main drawing of the package pattern of 10 shows that the sun and Jiujiu are hidden in the shield, and the words "Jiujiu" brand cigarettes are marked with blue edges under the blue and white shield pattern.