The founder of Millennium Green, Ms Lillian Yuen has been a long-time advocate for hemp production and was the first company approved for commercialization of industrial hemp in China. Ms. Yuen co-founded the company The Yunnan Industrial Hemp in 1999 and was the first and only private company to date with the Chinese government approval and permit for cannabis hemp production. This spearheaded the country to follow with state owned hemp production in two other provinces in the following decades.  Yunnan Industrial Hemp company collaborated with Yunnan University with all our research and data were furnished to the government. The company identified supply chain in the industry and infrastructure for hemp products. The industries that products sold mostly were textile for military clothing and accessories and paper pulp for producing papers and cartons. The company was sold to a large conglomerate company in 2006.