Kiwa Bio-Tech Products Group Corp. announced that the Company has inaugurated its new research center related to its rapidly expanding microbial fertilizer business in China. The purpose of establishing the new Kiwa-Yangling Ecological Agriculture and Environment Research Center (“Kiwa R&D Center”) is to create a headquarters for conducting original research on microbial fertilizers and to make innovative advances in its KETS core technology and support Kiwa Bio-Tech's strategy of opening new agricultural planting markets and safeguarding the Company's leading position in the soil restoration industry. The new Kiwa R&D Center is located in the only High-Tech Agricultural Free Trade Zone in Yangling, Shaanxi Province. With these geo-advantages and cluster competitive advantages, the Kiwa R&D Center has already established a Research and Innovation Division, Laboratories, an International Cooperation Division, a Data and Information Division and Personnel Training Division.

The Company has appointed Dr. Yanan Tong as the first president of the Kiwa R & D Center. His research direction includes fertilizer use and environment, agricultural environmental protection, and soil sciences. Dr. Tong has served as the Secretary-General of the UK-China Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network to promote agricultural cooperation and food security in the United Kingdom and China.