"A leaf falls into the water, changing the taste of the water, and there is tea from then on!"
For thousands of years, this leaf has been in the land of Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County at the western foot of Fanjing Mountain, through the experience of life and death, water and fire, and has interpreted a fragrant green legend.
In the new era, this leaf lives up to the green mountains and green waters, and in the polishing of time, it is full of vitality and "red". Please take a look –
A new mission for a leaf
June 14 this year is a special node in the development of the Yinjiang tea industry.
On this day, the Yinjiang Autonomous County Black Tea Promotion Promotion Conference was held, marking that the development of Yinjiang black tea has entered a new stage.
On this day, Yinjiang Autonomous County specially appointed Lu Chengyin, former deputy director and researcher of the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, as the chief scientist of the high-quality development of the Yinjiang tea industry, injecting strong strength into the high-quality development of the Yinjiang tea industry.
In particular, Professor Lu Chengyin's report entitled "Innovation Empowers the High-quality Development of Yinjiang Tea Industry", the new concepts of "Yinjiang flower and fruity black tea" and "black tea and green tea go hand in hand" are deafening.
In the past, Yinjiang mainly produced green tea, and one leaf lived up to its mission and became an industry to enrich the people to promote income increase and get rid of poverty; now, Yinjiang is driven by "red and green", and one leaf shoulders a new mission, and is destined to become a pillar industry to promote rural revitalization and achieve common prosperity.
Boldly try, a leaf "red".
For a long time, Yinjiang has been famous for its green tea, and has achieved the reputation of China's famous tea hometown, China's key tea-producing county, and national export tea quality and safety demonstration zone.
With the rise of black tea culture and the change of consumption Xi, the limitations of Yinjiang's single production of green tea in market competition have become increasingly prominent, and how to improve the planting rate of Yinjiang summer and autumn tea leaves and promote industrial upgrading have become a problem that Yinjiang tea people must think about.
Since 2013, tea companies in Yinjiang have begun to try to launch black tea products.
"At that time, when I sold black tea, I sold it to acquaintances. There is no process, and the quality cannot be guaranteed. Wang Mingqiang, who has grown tea for 20 years and sold tea for 20 years, said that many factors such as the product is not too hard, the technology is not mature, and the local people's tea drinking Xi and many other factors have caused Yinjiang black tea to go out.
"Tea second generation" Xiang Yu came to Yinjiang in 2013, the establishment of Guizhou Yinjiang Fanjing Huipu Ecological Tea Co., Ltd., the development of 1,390 acres of tea gardens in Heshui Town, the company to process green tea, due to a single variety, low added value, the enterprise once faced difficulties.
Xiang Yu is well aware that black tea has the advantages of wide coverage of tea raw materials, long picking season, low storage cost and wide audience. In order to get out of the predicament, he began to add equipment, borrow loans, and boldly develop black tea in 2015.
"Black tea is durable, and the more you put it, the more flavorful it becomes, and during the epidemic, the company has not been affected. Xiang Yu actively changed the sales mode, and successfully signed an agreement with Guizhou Guicha Co., Ltd., a key leading enterprise of national agricultural industrialization, and the annual order of 30,000 catties of black tea not only kept the business operation, but also opened up a new processing line.
Xiang Yu's success has opened an incision for tea enterprises to expand the production chain and improve the economic benefits of the tea industry. With the in-depth development of east-west cooperation, coastal tea merchants entered Yinjiang and discovered the huge potential of Yinjiang black tea development.
In September 2018, Guizhou Guirui Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., the first company focusing on black tea production, was put into operation. Xiang Youyu, the founder of the company, said: "In order to create a excellent, high-end and highly competitive brand black tea, we started from the source of the base, and newly cultivated more than 1,000 acres of tea varieties suitable for the production of black tea - Qiancha No. 1, as the production raw material base of high-quality black tea, and developed the famous black tea brand of 'Fanjing Mountain Black Tea'." ”
In December 2022, this black tea stood out from hundreds of black tea brands selected by hundreds of domestic and foreign companies in the 2nd World Black Tea Product Quality Selection and Recommendation Activity, and won the gold medal in one fell swoop, allowing people all over the world to get acquainted with Yinjiang black tea.
From four or five tea companies processing black tea sporadically ten years ago, to more than 40 large-scale production companies today, the idea of only selling green tea no longer exists, and the green leaves of the mountains are "red".
Looking for a way out, a leaf "fragrant".
"At that time, most of the black tea produced was basic, with no characteristics and no fragrance. Wei Houda, director of the Tea Industry Development Center of Yinjiang Autonomous County, said that there are very few varieties of black tea that can be produced in Yinjiang's tea gardens with characteristics and quality. "The county's 265,000 acres of tea plantations, 95% of the planted tea varieties are Fuding Dabai, the variety is suitable for processing green tea, only more than 1,300 acres of Qiancha No. 1 is suitable for processing black tea. ”
Whether to improve tea varieties or improve processing technology, Yinjiang is facing new challenges to improve the quality and efficiency of black tea.
In order to break through the predicament, the main person in charge of the Yinjiang County Party Committee and the county government has organized tea enterprises and tea artists to Fujian, Zhejiang and other places to carry out investigation and study Xi, seek a new way for the development of black tea, and improve the rate of tea planting.
The stones of other mountains can be used to attack jade. In July 2022, 30 tea technicians from Yinjiang walked into Tanyang, Fujian Province to learn the Xi Tanyang Gongfu black tea making process. The one-week training opened the eyes of Yinjiang people.
"Through the training, we have gained a lot and changed the way we make black tea and our cognition. Yan Shijuan, general manager of Guizhou Guirui Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., said that after coming back, he used Fujian Tanyang Gongfu black tea technology to develop a new Yinjiang black tea.
In October 2022, Guizhou Mountain Valley Agriculture Co., Ltd., which was born specifically for black tea, rose from the ground, and the company established a fully automatic black tea production line, a clean refining production line, and a fully automatic packaging line to achieve standardized, automated, and modern R&D and production of black tea. At the same time, Yinjiang Hongyuan Agricultural Comprehensive Development Co., Ltd., a state-level leading tea enterprise, has established a black tea training base, combined R&D and training, continued to promote product research and development, and improved black tea-related technologies.
In the year after returning from school, the tea-making skills of Yinjiang tea technicians have been greatly improved. On June 13, a black tea review event was held as scheduled, and 16 tea companies showed their best black tea products in front of experts for "review". Professor Lu Chengyin believes that the tea varieties planted in Yinjiang are of high quality and are no problem to use to make black tea, and a special process has been added to the processing line to make black tea have a floral and fruity aroma, and the brand is named "Yinjiang Flower and Fruit Red".
In order to stabilize the black tea processing technology, Yinjiang also specially hired Lu Chengyin as the chief scientist for the high-quality development of the Yinjiang tea industry, and jointly established a black tea research station with a team of experts to provide technical support for the development of the Yinjiang black tea industry.
"In order to further stabilize the production level of 'Yinjiang Huaguo Red', we regularly carry out training to further improve the quality of Yinjiang black tea processing practitioners and the level of tea processing skills. Wei Houda said that in addition to quality, brand norms are also very important, the tea industry development center has developed a unified group standard, and the black tea produced by the enterprise can only be listed as "Yinjiang Huaguo Red" if it meets the production standard.
As a result, based on the existing tea varieties and the technical support of experts from the China Institute of Tea Sciences, Yinjiang has established two black tea refining and processing plants, two automatic black tea production lines, and three black tea research and development sites, fully utilizing summer and autumn tea raw materials to produce black tea, and creating a 'Yinjiang Huaguo Red' characteristic black tea brand to achieve unified standards, unified packaging, and unified brands.
Started to catch up, and a leaf "fired".
Although "Yinjiang Huaguohong" started late, the momentum is very strong.
In order to promote the black tea industry, on September 4 this year, at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 14th Yinjiang Autonomous County Party Committee and the Semi-annual Economic Work Conference, the "Implementation Opinions of the People's Government of Yinjiang Autonomous County Committee of the Communist Party of China on Green Ecology Leading the High-quality Development of Fanjing Mountain Tea" was deliberated and adopted, and it was clearly proposed to build a Qiandong Ecological Tea Industry Demonstration Zone, a Guizhou Tea Refining and Processing Trade Zone, and the first county of Guizhou Huaguo Black Tea.
On October 27, the "Guizhou Province 2023 Autumn Tea Fighting Competition" was held in Guiyang, and after the "Yinjiang Huaguo Red" black tea passed the "expert review", it was sent to the provincial and external sub-venues for public evaluation. After layers of evaluation, it stood out from 36 tea samples and won the silver award in the black tea category.
"Yinjiang Huaguo Red" walked out of the boudoir and was known by more people. In the past year, it has participated in the 2023 5th China Taiyuan Tea Industry Expo, Qingdao Tea Expo, China Farmers' Harvest Festival "Fanjing Mountain Treasures, Health and Wellness" Green Characteristic Agricultural Products Exhibition and Sales Activities, the 6th China-Arab States Expo, the 2023 Hong Kong Food Fair International Tea Exhibition and other exhibitions 9 times, and signed orders for more than 200 tons of "Yinjiang Huaguo Red" at the exhibition, totaling 16.8 million yuan.
"After participating in various exhibitions, everyone spoke highly of 'Yinjiang Huaguo Red', thinking that the taste, aroma and soup color are very special, and they like this taste. This year, the 40,000 catties of black tea produced by the company have all been sold out. Xiang Youyu, founder of Guizhou Guirui Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., is full of confidence: "Next, we will increase publicity on the brand of black tea, increase the production of black tea, and let more people know about 'Yinjiang Huaguo Hong' and drink 'Yinjiang Huaguo Hong'." ”
At present, Yinjiang has invested more than 10 million yuan in 3 tea enterprises, cultivated 1 national agricultural leading enterprise, and 6 agricultural leading enterprises above the provincial level. Among them, there are 35 leading tea enterprises with SC certification, green food certification, organic food certification, etc. In 2023, Yinjiang will produce 2,640 tons of black tea with an output value of 356 million yuan, doubling the growth.
"I believe that Yinjiang black tea will definitely become popular!" Professor Lu Chengyin's affirmative words about Yinjiang black tea have been confirmed.
[Interview Notes]
Tea is the leading industry of Yinjiang Qiang Village to enrich the people. The successive county party committees and county governments of Yinjiang have attached great importance to the development of the tea industry, and have worked hard for a long time to promote the quality and efficiency of the tea industry, and now the 265,000 acres of tea plantations have become a green bank.
Don't forget the original intention, you have to always. Yinjiang has created a whole industrial chain integrating planting, processing, sales, agriculture and tourism, so that tea farmers and tea enterprises can understand tea, protect tea and benefit from tea, which not only realizes that the tea industry has driven the people to get rich, but also has embarked on a road of ecological priority and economic development, which has become a vivid practice of interpreting "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets".
The future is promising. Yinjiang, led by the brand of "Cuifeng Green" and "Huaguo Red", will surely achieve a new leap forward with red and green
Yinjiangrong Media Center reporter Zhang Zeqin Yang Jiangxi
Some of the pictures are provided by the Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Yinjiang Autonomous County
Edited by Cai Qian
Second instance Yang Cong
Third trial Zhu Xie