“Hefeng Tea” Going to the World

From Xinhua News

Recently, in the production workshop of a company in Hubei province, workers were busy filling export orders. The tea produced by the company will be loaded into containers and transported to Ningbo Port, and then shipped to African countries such as Senegal and European countries such as Belgium and France.

It is reported that the company is Hefeng County key investment enterprises and Zhejiang tea into Hubei largest investment enterprises, its main business includes tea production and processing and export and warehousing logistics, the main products have green tea, black tea, products are exported to Morocco, Afghanistan, Iran, Italy, France and other African and European countries.

It is understood that Hefeng County is one of the tea sources, tea trade has a long history. The history of Hefeng tea export can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic period, when the annual output of Hefeng black tea was more than one million jin, and most of it was sold to Europe. Since the Reform and Opening up, the tea export trade volume of Hefeng has been increasing year by year. In 1999, the foreign exchange income of tea export has reached 1.89 million US dollars, and in 2022, it has exceeded 32 million US dollars, an increase of nearly 17 times. The total tea export volume and the total foreign exchange income rank first in the province.