pharmaceutical market. The project took a whole year to complete. At the request of the local government, we are not allowed to buy seaweed directly from fishermen but must buy through cooperatives. After three months of operation, Mexican fishermen saw it was profitable so they rushed to exploit it, leading to the supply of seaweed starting to exceed demand. Naturally, if supply exceeds demand, prices must be reduced, but on the contrary, the cooperative here demands a price increase. We are not happy about this because while the cooperative buys seaweed from fishermen for only about 800 USD/ton, it sells it to us for 1,100 USD/ton. Even then, the cooperative's purchase price from the people was only 600 USD, but they wanted to sell it to us for 1,200 USD. The factory manager at that time was a Japanese. He found it unreasonable and decided not to buy from the cooperative anymore but to buy directly from the fishermen. So the cooperative leaders gathered and demanded that the local government close the factory, then organized people to beat the Japanese factory manager, and at the