The profits from our health and beauty aid distribution business are adequate to fund our ongoing operations. In order to fully implement its business plan, however, Shandong Spring Pharmaceutical will require a large capital infusion to finance the creation of state-of-the-art facilities for the extraction of compounds from gingko and the formulation of products based on those compounds. The patent the Company bought from Shandong YCT in March 2010 represents an exclusive right in China to use an aglycone type and purification method of biotransformation in gingko product manufacturing process, with a remaining legal life of 16.5 years. The Company is amortizing the cost on a straight line basis over 16.5 years.
Based on our current operating plan, we believe that existing cash and cash equivalents balances, as well as cash forecast by management to be generated by operations will be sufficient to meet our working capital and capital requirements for our current operations. Our operations have produced positive cash flow, with $14,097,423 provided by operating activities for the year ended March 31, 2010. We did not have accounts receivable outstanding as of March 31, 2010. We expect our marketing activities to continue to operate cash-positively. We commenced our own manufacturing operations during this year, which has put some pressure on our cash flow. In the ongoing basis, we may be required to seek additional capital and reduce certain spending as needed.
In order to fully implement our business plan, however, we will require capital contributions far in excess of our current asset value. Our budget for bringing our manufacturing facility to an operating level that assures profitability is $10 million. To fully implement our business plan - including development of a facility to utilize our proprietary method of extracting flavones from ginkgo by using enzyme technology - we will need $40 million. Our expectation, therefore, is that we will seek to access the capital markets in both the U.S. and China to obtain the funds we require.
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