Silk Road Floating Tea Fragrance

The Sichuan tea export train to Central Asia carrying 1,235 tons recently departed from Chengdu International Railway Port and set off for Tashkent, Uzbekistan

With the opening of international logistics channels such as the China-Europe Railway Express and the new western land-sea channel, the foreign trade conditions in western China have been optimized, and "going overseas business opportunities" have also been found for Sichuan tea

Fang Yikai, general manager of Sichuan Huayi Tea Industry Co.

"In order to meet EU standards, we have replaced traditional chemical control measures with insect traps, and even the interplanted tree species have specially selected yew and chennan, which have less pests and diseases

In April 2021, Sichuan's first tea export train will be sent from Chengdu to Uzbekistan; in November, the second tea export train will be sent to Central Asia again

Not only Central Asia, but also Africa and Europe have become the destinations for "Sichuan tea" to go overseas

"At present, we have a fully automatic export green tea production line with an annual processing capacity of 20,000 tons, which drives the utilization of summer and autumn tea in 100,000 mu of tea gardens, and radiates to Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hubei and other places

"Only the promotion of the whole process of summer and autumn tea machine picking technology brought about by the export of green tea has brought an increase of more than 2,000 yuan per mu to farmers, and the tea industry has become one of the most popular industries for farmers

(Source: Xinhua News Agency)

"China Food News" (February 17, 2022 07 edition)

(Editor-in-charge: Yuan Guofeng)