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ORGANIZATION AND NATURE OF OPERATIONS
9 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
ORGANIZATION AND NATURE OF OPERATIONS

NOTE 1 - ORGANIZATION AND NATURE OF OPERATIONS

 

Shineco, Inc. (“Shineco” or the “Company”) was incorporated in the State of Delaware on August 20, 1997. The Company is a holding company whose primary purpose is to develop business opportunities in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC” or “China”).

 

On December 30, 2004, the Company acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Beijing Tenet-Jove Technological Development Co., Ltd. (“Tenet-Jove”), a PRC company, in exchange for restricted shares of the Company’s common stock, and the sole operating business of the Company became that of its subsidiary, Tenet-Jove. Tenet-Jove was incorporated on December 15, 2003 under the laws of China. Consequently, Tenet-Jove became a 100% owned subsidiary of Shineco and was officially granted the status of a wholly foreign-owned entity by Chinese authorities on July 14, 2006. This transaction was accounted for as a recapitalization. Tenet-Jove owns 90% interest of Tianjin Tenet Huatai Technological Development Co., Ltd. (“Tenet Huatai”).

 

On December 31, 2008, June 11, 2011, and May 24, 2012, Tenet-Jove entered into a series of contractual agreements including an Executive Business Cooperation Agreement, a Timely Reporting Agreement, an Equity Interest Pledge Agreement, and an Executive Option Agreement (collectively, the “VIE Agreements”), with each one of the following entities, Ankang Longevity Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd. (“Ankang Longevity Group”), Yantai Zhisheng International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd. (“Zhisheng Freight”), Yantai Zhisheng International Trade Co., Ltd. (“Zhisheng Trade”), Yantai Mouping District Zhisheng Agricultural Produce Cooperative (“Zhisheng Agricultural”), and Qingdao Zhihesheng Agricultural Produce Services., Ltd. (“Qingdao Zhihesheng”). On February 24, 2014, Tenet-Jove entered into the same series of contractual agreements with Shineco Zhisheng (Beijing) Bio-Technology Co., Ltd. (“Zhisheng Bio-Tech”), which was incorporated in 2014. Zhisheng Bio-Tech, Zhisheng Freight, Zhisheng Trade, Zhisheng Agricultural, and Qingdao Zhihesheng are collectively referred to herein as the “Zhisheng VIEs”.

 

Pursuant to the VIE Agreements, Tenet-Jove has the exclusive right to provide to the Zhisheng VIEs and Ankang Longevity Group consulting services related to their business operations and management. All the above contractual agreements obligate Tenet-Jove to absorb a majority of the risk of loss from the Zhisheng VIEs and Ankang Longevity Group’s activities and entitle Tenet-Jove to receive a majority of their residual returns. In essence, Tenet-Jove has become the primary beneficiary of the operations of the Zhisheng VIEs and Ankang Longevity Group. Therefore, the Zhisheng VIEs and Ankang Longevity Group are treated as variable interest entities (“VIEs”) under the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 810 “Consolidation.” Accordingly, the accounts of these entities are consolidated with those of Tenet-Jove.

 

Since Shineco is effectively controlled by the majority shareholders of the Zhisheng VIEs and Ankang Longevity Group, Shineco owns 100% of Tenet-Jove. Accordingly, Shineco, Tenet-Jove, and the VIEs, the Zhisheng VIEs and Ankang Longevity Group are effectively controlled by the same majority shareholders. Therefore, Shineco, Tenet-Jove, and the VIEs of Tenet-Jove are considered under common control. The consolidation of Tenet-Jove and its VIEs into Shineco was accounted for at historical cost and prepared on the basis as if the aforementioned exclusive contractual agreements between Tenet-Jove and its VIEs had become effective as of the beginning of the first period presented in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

 

On September 30, 2017, Tenet-Jove established Xinjiang Shineco Taihe Agriculture Technology Ltd. (“Xinjiang Taihe”) with registered capital of RMB10.0 million (approximately US$1.5 million). On September 30, 2017, Tenet-Jove established Xinjiang Tianyi Runze Bioengineering Co., Ltd. (“Runze”) with registered capital of RMB10.0 million (approximately US$1.5 million). Xinjiang Taihe and Runze became wholly-owned subsidiaries of Tenet-Jove. The Company ceased the business operation of Xinjiang Taihe and Runze in September 2020 and October 2020, respectively.

 

 

On December 10, 2016, Tenet-Jove entered into a purchase agreement with Tianjin Tajite E-Commerce Co., Ltd. (“Tianjin Tajite”), an online e-commerce company based in Tianjin, China, specializing in distributing Luobuma related products and branded products of Daiso 100-yen shops, pursuant to which Tenet-Jove would acquire a 51% equity interest in Tianjin Tajite for cash consideration of RMB14,000,000 (approximately US$2.1 million). On December 25, 2016, the Company paid the full amount as the deposit to secure the deal. In May, 2017, the Company amended the agreement and required Tianjin Tajite to satisfy certain preconditions related to product introductions into China. On October 26, 2017, the Company completed the acquisition for 51% of the shares in Tianjin Tajite. On May 5, 2019, two minority shareholders of Tianjin Tajite transferred their 26.4% of the equity interest to the Company. There was no consideration paid for the transfers, and after the transfers, the Company owns 77.4% equity interest of Tianjin Tajite.

 

On March 13, 2019, Tenet-Jove established Beijing Tenjove Newhemp Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (“TNB”) with registered capital of RMB10.0 million (approximately US$1.5 million). TNB became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tenet-Jove.

 

On July 23, 2020, Shanghai Jiaying International Trade Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Jiaying”) was established with registered capital of RMB200 million (approximately US$29.9 million). Tenet-Jove owned an equity interest of 90% of Shanghai Jiaying, and the remaining 10% equity interests was owned by an individual shareholder. Jiaying Trade did engage in any active business operations, and the operating of Shanghai Jiaying was ceased on December 21, 2021.

 

On January 7, 2021, Inner Mongolia Shineco Zhonghemp Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (“SZB”) was established with registered capital of RMB50 million (approximately US$7.5 million). Tenet-Jove owned an equity interest of 55% of SZB, and the remaining 45% equity interests was owned by an individual shareholder. SZB is currently not engaging in any active business operations.

 

On December 07, 2021, the Company established Shineco Life Science Research Co., Ltd. (“Life Science”) as a wholly foreign-owned entity with registered capital of US$10.0 million.

 

On April 13, 2022, the Company established Shineco Life Science Group Hong Kong Co., Limited (“Life Science HK”) as a wholly owned entity with registered capital of US$10.0 million. On April 24, 2022, the Company entered into a Share Transfer Agreement (“Agreement”) with Life Science HK. Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company transferred its 100% of the equity interest of Life Science to Life Science HK. There was no consideration paid for the transfer, and after the transfer, Life Science became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Life Science HK.

 

On June 8, 2021, Tenet-Jove entered into a Restructuring Agreement with various parties. Pursuant to the terms of the Restructuring Agreement, (i) the Company transferred all of its rights and interests in Ankang Longevity to Yushe County Guangyuan Forest Development Co., Ltd. (“Guangyuan”)’s Shareholders in exchange for Guangyuan Shareholders entering into the VIE Agreements with Tenet-Jove, which composes of one group of similar identifiable assets; (ii) Tenet-Jove entered a Termination Agreement with Ankang Longevity and the Ankang Shareholders; (iii) as a consideration to the Restructuring Agreement and based on a valuation report on the equity interests of Guangyuan issued by an independent third party, Tenet-Jove relinquished all of its rights and interests in Ankang Longevity and transferred those rights and interests to the Guangyuan Shareholders; and (iv) Guangyuan and the Guangyuan Shareholders entered into a series of variable interest entity agreements with Tenet-Jove. After signing of the Restructuring Agreement, the Company and the shareholders of Ankang and Guangyuan actively carried out the transferring of rights and interests in Ankang and Guangyuan, and the transferring was completed subsequently on July 5, 2021. Afterwards, with the completion of all other follow-ups works, on August 16, 2021, the Company, through its subsidiary Tenet-Jove, completed the previously announced acquisition pursuant to the Restructuring Agreement dated June 8, 2021.

 

 

On December 30, 2022, Life Science closed the acquisition of 51% of the issued equity interests of Changzhou Biowin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (“Biowin”), a company established under the laws of China, pursuant to the previously announced stock purchase agreement, dated as of October 21, 2022, among Beijing Kanghuayuan Medicine Information Consulting Co., Ltd., a company established under the laws of China (“Seller”), Biowin, the Company and Life Science (the “Agreement”). As the consideration for the acquisition, the Company paid to Seller US$9 million in cash and the Company issued 3,260,000 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value US$0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”) to the equity holders of Biowin or any persons designated by Biowin. According to the Supplementary Agreement, dated as of December 30, 2022, by and among Life Science, the Seller and Biowin, the Seller enjoyed 51% of the issued equity interests of Biowin before January 1, 2023, and transferred the 51% of the issued equity interests of Biowin together with its controlling rights of production and operation of Biowin to Life Science from January 1, 2023.

 

On January 13, 2023, the Company entered into a non-binding framework agreement (the “LOI”) with certain shareholders of Dream Partner Limited (“Dream Ltd.”) to acquire 80% equity interests of Dream Ltd., which indirectly owns 100% equity interests of Chongqing Wintus Group (“Wintus”), which is a private company based in China that produces specialized antiviral silk fabric materials that can be widely used in the medical, hygiene, pharmaceutical and personal health fields. According to the LOI, the total purchase price of the acquisition is estimated to be approximately US$40 million which is expected to consist of cash and the Company’s common stock. The LOI represents terms for a proposed transaction and will be subject to legal and financial due diligence, which includes a third-party audit and evaluation, Shineco’s shareholder’s approval and definitive documentation.

 

The Company, its subsidiaries, its VIEs, and its VIEs’ subsidiaries (collectively the “Group”) currently operate four main business segments: 1) Tenet-Jove is engaged in manufacturing and selling Bluish Dogbane and related products, also known in Chinese as “Luobuma,” including therapeutic clothing and textile products made from Luobuma; 2) Qingdao Zhihesheng and Guanyuan are engaged in planting, processing, and distributing green agricultural produce; (“Agricultural Products”); 3) Zhisheng Freight is providing domestic and international logistic services (“Freight Services”); and 4) Biowin is specializing in development, production and distribution of innovative rapid diagnostic products and related medical devices for the most common diseases (“Rapid Diagnostic Products”). These different business activities and products can potentially be integrated and benefit from one another.