Tannery of the Year:Gansu Hongliang Leather Limited, Guanghe County, Gansu Province, China

摘要

Li Chen, chairman of Gansu Hongliang Leather Technology Limited, is a veteran of the hard but noble work of collecting hides from the cattle farmers spread across the expanse of China's north-west. Strictly speaking, his base 100 kilometres from the old Silk Road city of Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, is in the geographical centre of the country, but it's always referred to as the north-west. The Gobi Desert begins a few hundred kilometres to the west, and there are road signs on new, impressive toll-controlled highways for Lhasa, capital of the remote autonomous region of Tibet.