Speakers
Richard Gong
Founder
Secret Valley

Gong Bin is the principal and founder of the "Secret Valley" brand.

After six years of sales of imported cabinets, he had a strong interest in handicrafts because a friend sent him a natural hand gift. He founded his own studio in 2009 after leaving the cabinet industry.

The first product of Secret Valley is hand-made soap. He spent a lot of time on study, research and development. He designed different formulations for different skin conditions.

He shared his favorite drink, sour plum soup, to friends by chance, and been affirmed unanimously which drove him to introduce the corresponding product. He spent most of the time in traditional food research and development and innovation since 2011. He upgrades the raw materials, tastes and technology of several kinds of traditional food, such as Sour plum, Lotus Powder, Brown sugar ginger tea.

For example, in addition to the classic taste, he added Roselle to enrich the taste of sour plum which made the acid show many different levels. For another example, he broke the intra industry standard of raw materials choice of lotus powder, through replacing the traditional hand Cutting technology dependent on the weather with the standardized and batch modern technology, which developed the color, fragrance and taste of the ancient food to the new height of the industry.

Gong Bin is passionate about his work, and he believes that a product consists of good material, good craftsmanship, good design packaging and reasonable price will be very popular whether on-line or offline. He knows that China's food culture has a long history, and it is very different in different regions. Developing these treasures is Gong Bin and his team’s future subject . They still have a long way to go.