The overall efficiency of China's tea industry still has great room for improvement

"At present, China's tea extract industry leads the world and has achieved a gorgeous turnaround
.
Let us simply rely on price competition in the past, and finally achieve the competition of technical strength, and even the guidance of standards, to enhance the voice of
China's tea extract in the international market.
Recently, Professor Liu Zhonghua, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the academic committee of Hunan Agricultural University, said
so when talking about the ten-year development of China's tea deep processing field.

"China is a big country with tea resources, how to promote China's tea resources to the world market with the help of modern technology, this is the problem I have been thinking about
.
" Liu Zhonghua believes that we continue to improve the technical level of China's tea extract industry through learning and introducing foreign technologies and concepts, and through further innovation; Nowadays, whether it is the extraction and purification technology or the equipment level, the industrialization level in line with international standards has been realized by China leading the world
.

Liu Zhonghua further said that today it can be proudly said that, first of all, China has the world's largest tea technology innovation team
.
Whether it is the number of universities that have set up tea science disciplines in China, or the technical team of the national tea industry technology system established by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, China is the largest in the world and cannot be surpassed by any country
.
Secondly, China's tea equipment level and platform level are complete, and a very complete technological innovation platform
has been established from the state to provinces and cities and even major tea-producing counties.
Finally, over the years, around the industrial chain, the innovation chain has been built, and the most technical achievements and the highest
level have been formed.
Whether it is the variety resources of tea plants, or the breeding, cultivation technology, plant protection technology of new varieties of tea plants, the level of tea processing technology and equipment and the technical level of deep processing, and even the results
of tea and health research.
Over the years, China's tea technology innovation team has achieved the largest technical output in the world, and the overall level is also the highest
.

Liu Zhonghua said that although we have the largest tea area, the largest tea production and the most powerful technical system, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the overall efficiency of Chinese tea, and there is still room for
further improvement in the share of Chinese tea in the international market.
Although China leads the world in the quantity, scale quality and technology of tea extract plate, how to use the functional ingredients and extracts of tea to develop health products that serve the domestic market is the direction we
need to work towards.

Liu Zhonghua believes that China's tea resources should not only be exported abroad to occupy the foreign health product market, but also have products
developed by China's own brands in the domestic health product terminal market.
In this way, the scale and efficiency of China's tea deep processing industry can be improved simultaneously, and through the linkage of products and brands, China's independent tea deep processing brands can enter the lives of ordinary people, so the market space potential of the healthy life sector is large
.

In addition, Liu Zhonghua said that a huge bottleneck in tea cultivation and production is the problem of
hand-picking tea.
How to replace manual labor with mechanized and intelligent tea pickers and reduce the cost of fresh leaf picking in tea gardens requires linkage mechanical theory experts, intelligent theory experts and big data experts to jointly develop intelligent tea picking machines to realize the intelligent
picking of famous tea.

"In this way, the quality level of Chinese tea can be further improved, the cost can be further reduced, and we can truly produce high-quality and good tea that consumers at home and abroad can afford, which is our task and goal
as a scientific and technological innovation team.
" Liu Zhonghua said
.

(Arranged by Yuan Guofeng)

China Food News (October 20, 2022 Version 07)

(Editor: Yuan Guofeng)