Imitation Cigarettes Manufacturer Ranked Among Top 100

Source from:  chinanews.com.cn 12/12/2005

A Chinese imitation cigarettes manufacturer - Beijing SBT Ruyan Technology&Development Corporation - has recently been ranked among the Top 100 Burgeoning Private Enterprises in China for the past three years, because of its success in developing and producing electronic devices in imitation of cigarettes or cigars. Beijing SBT Ruyan Technology&Development Corporation won the ranking in an activity sponsored by China National Association of Industry and Commerce, the Wall Street Daily of the United States and the Modern Managers magazine of China to rate the Top 100 Burgeoning Private Enterprises in China for the past three years. The rating was based on the results of a survey conducted over the past year and also results of a ballot to determine the growth rate of profits. Besides its ranking among the Top 100, Beijing SBT Ruyan Technology&Development Corporation was also rated as a rapidly growing Chinese enterprise, and was awarded a "Prize for Innovation with the Greatest Social Significance" - the only special reward recommended by the appraisers of the activity, at a ceremony held in the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing. The imitation cigarettes or cigars produced by Beijing SBT Ruyan Technology&Development Corporation, known as Ruyan (Like Tobacco), are healthcare products intended to control tobacco and assist smokers in giving up smoking. As non-burning substitutes for real cigarettes or cigars, Ruyan are actually electronic devices that can generate fume and flavors similar to those of burning tobacco products capable of meeting the demand of smokers for habitual cigarette smoking. Fundamentally different from real tobacco products, Ruyan, on the basis of application of the microelectronic control technology and the supercritical physical atomization technology, emit pure tobacco extracts without the process of burning. Therefore, the fume generated by Ruyan does not contain tar and the more than 4,000 types of harmful chemicals found in smoke from burning tobacco products. Enditem