Starting its first distillation in the summer of 2021, the company released the inaugural casks and a private cask program early this year.

该公司于2021年夏天开始首次蒸馏，今年年初发布了首个木桶和一个私人木桶计划。

"The distillation process in baijiu (Chinese white liquor) production will produce a cereal byproduct called distillers grains, which is a mix of organic waste like corn, rice and various kind of microorganisms.

This move will raise its annual petroleum refinery distillation capacity from 12 million metric tons to 15 million tons a year, which will help meet domestic demand.

"For the long term, the company plans to build the third phase of the Quanzhou refinery base to push its petroleum refinery distillation capacity to up to 35 million tons a year, with 3.4 million tons of annual ethylene production volume and 5 million tons of aromatic hydrocarbon production capacity.

The spirit, made from sorghum and wheat, takes up to five years for the whole production process, involving nine times of steaming, eight times of fermentation and seven times of distillation, before aged in clay pots.

The project broke China's records in a number of technological fields and boasts the largest atmospheric and vacuum distillation unit.

These include tubular daylight devices, a wastewater vacuum distillation system, rainwater harvesting, deionized water recycling, and heat recovery from a chilled water system.