In March, Chen Dongwei, deputy director of the management committee of Yufeng District Industrial Park in Liuzhou, told Xinhua News Agency that sales of famous brands of the noodles had tripled from the same period last year.

Liang said at the launch ceremony for the school that he hoped its graduates could come up with innovative ideas to boost sales of the noodles.

According to Liang, the city's sales of packaged luosifen reached 6.26 billion yuan last year, and the industry employed more than 250,000 people. "Now the city is producing more than 2 million packages of luosifen a day, and selling them in both domestic and international markets," he said.