Lu Pinglang, the Party Secretary of Zigui County in Hubei Province - known as the "navel orange hometown" - and two other individuals personally traveled from Hubei to Beijing to present Baidu CEO Robin Li with navel oranges from their hometown, thanking Baidu for its charitable contributions to the fruit farmers of Zigui over the past two months. Due to Baidu's support, by February 12, 2009, the sales volume of navel oranges in Zigui County had increased by as much as 30% compared to the same period last year.