The Kirin Group has gained technical expertise in research and marketing that assesses customer needs; in cutting-edge fermentation and biotechnology that brings out the best in what nature provides; and in manufacturing that converts the customer needs into products. We combine and integrate these technical competencies to deliver products of distinctive value and high quality. At the same time, we enhance our technical expertise and customer-relationship excellence, individually and in combination, to remain customer focused and quality oriented.

We allocate more management resources to business units that play a key role in raising the Kirin Group's overall technical expertise so that they become a center of excellence that provides a basis for synergistic enhancement and continuous development of technical prowess across the group.

The Group's R&D units, business units and intellectual property departments work together to implement its R&D strategy in pursuit of achieving Kirin Group Vision 2015.