Derby is a famous town in the UK, famous for producing excellent horses and racing with two First Division teams in the same city. Therefore, the cultural connotation of the derby brand includes international popular elements such as leisure, sports, and chivalry, which is easy to trigger people's yearning for modern lifestyle.

As the world's sixth largest brand "Derby" in Asia, Dubao is also the first Sino-foreign hybrid product of China Tobacco (and the only hybrid cigarette product successfully developed in China with the international top tobacco giant --- British American Tobacco).

On October 31, 1991, "Dubao" brand cigarettes were put into production in Wuhu Cigarette Factory of Anhui China Tobacco Industry Company.