In 1950s, Prof. Fang found foreign countries applied bees and bee products to medicine and health in his medical work, and then began to pay close attention to study this.
In July 1956, Prf. Fang Zhu started to keep bees and study apitherapy health care, through experiments, observations and collecting information at home and abroad, he believed that bees were valuable for developing our country. Then on February 14, 1958, he wrote the paper “Bee—the Friend of Health” and published it on the newspaper “People’s Daily”.
In 1959, Bee Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, engaged Prof. Fang Zhu as their special researcher. When chairman Zhu De inspected the institute “Bee—The Friend of Health” was submitted to him, after chairman Zhu read it, he wrote to Chairman Mao on January 16, 1960 and praised bee as “the friend of human beings”, as “matchmaker” of crop pollination, proposed to develop apiculture. Since 1960s, Chinese apiculture gradually flourished.