Chairman's Profile - Ningbo Taiji Environmental Protection Equipment Co., Ltd.

Mr. Shi Hanxiang

Currently Chairman of Ningbo Taiji Environmental Protection Equipment Co., Ltd., he is an outstanding entrepreneur and a leading research figure in China's circular-economy field.

As one of China's first-generation private entrepreneurs, Mr. Shi has devoted nearly fifty years to industry. He led the company from a bare start-up into the largest industrial enterprise in the provincial copper sector and a bellwether of the international non-ferrous metals industry. He later founded Taiji Environmental Protection — recognized as a National High-tech Enterprise and a National Specialized, Refined, Differential and Innovative “Little Giant” Enterprise — and established the Zhejiang Hanxiang Academy of Sciences, completing a three-stage leap from scale expansion and technological upgrading to research-layout building.

A Breakthrough Maker for Circular Economy

Non-ferrous metals, ferrous metals (steel), and thermal-power energy are the three core bottlenecks (colloquially known as “three great mountains”) of environmental governance in China's industrial sector, creating severe ecological pressure. Over more than 20 years of R&D, Mr. Shi invested over 300 million yuan and successfully developed the core technology and equipment for sulfur-dioxide flue-gas treatment — the “DS Multiphase Reactor”. This self-developed circular-economy technology has accumulated more than 60 domestic and international patents, not only solving multiple worldwide challenges in industrial-waste-gas treatment, solid-waste processing, and saline-alkali & sandy wasteland reclamation, but also achieving a key technological breakthrough for China's circular-economy field.

Relying on this technological foundation, Mr. Shi led the “2025 Sci-Tech Innovation” initiative and joined a National Major Science & Technology Project, directing participation in major MOST R&D programs and winning the provincial/ministerial-level First Prize for Science & Technology three times. The related technologies and equipment now cover 22 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities across China, and have been exported to multiple countries along the Belt and Road. For example, after deployment at Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Qinghua Coal-Chemical Plant, waste emissions dropped sharply, achieving ultra-low flue-gas emission and converting by-products into agricultural resources that improve saline-alkali land — delivering significant economic and ecological win-wins.

Furthermore, the Zhejiang Hanxiang Academy of Sciences developed the “Sand-boat Return Improved Farmland” equipment, expected to improve desert areas at scale, increase land-use area, and secure national food security, providing important technical support for ecological restoration.

A Pioneer in Life Science Exploration

Mr. Shi’s journey of serving the nation through science and technology does not end at industrial environmental protection, but extends to the life science sector that underpins public well-being. In response to severe health challenges including cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, malignant tumors and widespread public sub-health issues, he entered the life science field as early as 1995. Through in-depth research on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), he successfully developed a series of “Shi’s Formulas” TCM prescriptions. Classic formulations such as Shi’s Qiankun Decoction and Shi’s Stomach Comfort Formula have been officially included in the prescription database of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of China.

His patented preparation technology for the anti-tumor new drug “Shi’s Formula 98823” has been verified in the official in-vitro anti-tumor activity test report issued by the Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. The report confirms that the technology delivers potent inhibitory effects on 5 types of tumor cells — with an inhibition rate of 95.98% on human liver cancer cells, and 98.64% on human colon cancer cells.

Meanwhile, he created the “Shi’s Health Regimen”, which identifies emotional harmony, robust spleen-stomach function and sufficient primordial qi (core life energy in TCM theory) as the three core pillars of human health. This system integrates TCM’s holistic philosophy with herbal recuperation methods, providing a distinctive TCM practice solution for public health management.

A Practitioner of Tech-Driven National Revitalization

Founded in 2020, the Zhejiang Hanxiang Academy of Sciences focuses on R&D in circular economy and life sciences. Upholding the mission of “Advance national prosperity through science, deliver benefits to all humanity”, the academy is committed to building a scientific and technological innovation platform.

Taking the Zhejiang Hanxiang Academy of Sciences as the core platform, Mr. Shi integrates “industry-university-research-application” collaborative innovation resources to drive the industrialization of R&D achievements in both circular economy and life sciences. The landmark projects he leads — including circular economy technology deployment, anti-tumor new drug development and desertification control equipment R&D — are precisely aligned with national strategic priorities covering ecological civilization, Healthy China initiative and national food security. He has always stayed true to his original aspiration of “serving the nation through science and benefiting humanity”, contributing practical insights to China's ecological civilization construction and public health cause as an innovative leader in the private technology sector.