The prickly pear is washed, the seeds are taken for the prickly pear, and the processed semi-fermented black tea leaves are packed into the hollowed out prickly pear, and the fermentation is continued while the roasting is carried out at a low temperature...... On September 24, in the production and processing workshop of Guizhou Huanghongying Tea Industry Co., Ltd., Jianzhong Town, Weng'an County, workers were carefully making "prickly pear black tea". A prickly pear fruit, wrapped in a pinch of black tea, the two are fully combined through the process, transformed into a delicious and healthy new specialty tea, which is very popular in the market.
"Our company now mainly produces autumn tea. This year, the prickly pear black tea has been developed, which is very popular with consumers, and the product is still in the process of being made, the order has been taken, and the workers are stepping up production. Guizhou Huanghongying Tea Industry Co., Ltd. workshop director Tang Zhongshan introduced.
On the other side of the tea processing workshop, machinery roars, and workers are rushing to make autumn tea to supply the market. The processes of spreading, killing, rolling, drying, and packaging are interlocking, and the carefully processed autumn tea is sold all over the country.
The vigorous development of the tea industry in Jianzhong Town has provided a large number of employment opportunities for local villagers. They sweat here and create a better life with their hardworking hands.
Emperor Yuan Sheng, a villager in Guoshui Village, Jianzhong Town, was deeply touched when she talked about the changes brought about by the development of the tea industry. She told reporters that before there was no tea industry in Jianzhong Town, young and strong laborers went out to work, and only the elderly and children remained in the village. With the development and growth of the tea industry in his hometown, many migrant workers have been attracted to return to their hometowns to grow tea.
"I have worked in Huanghongying Tea Industry Co., Ltd. for 8 years, with a salary of about four or five thousand, it is very convenient to go home, not only to take care of the children, but also to learn skills, more and more income, life is getting better and better." Emperor Yuan Sheng said.
Guizhou Huanghongying Tea Industry Co., Ltd. is a leading enterprise in Jianzhong Town's provincial-level mountainous characteristic agricultural park, with the world's largest golden bud planting demonstration base, with a golden bud planting area of more than 1,800 acres, another 6,000 acres of white tea, 4,800 acres of green tea and a small number of other test varieties, which can meet the processing and supply of various tea products, the main products include green tea (golden buds, white tea, Duyun Maojian, etc.), black tea, old white tea, black tea, collection of golden buds, etc. This year, it is expected that the output of autumn tea will be about 20 tons, and the output value will be about 15 million yuan.
Tang Zhongshan, workshop director of Guizhou Huanghongying Tea Industry Co., Ltd., said: "Our company currently has about 150 permanent jobs and 1,800 temporary workers, which has solved the local employment problem, and has hardened the road surface for local villagers for about 27 kilometers from the establishment of the company to the present. ”
It is understood that as of 2023, Guizhou Huanghongying Tea Industry Co., Ltd. has a total investment of more than 230 million yuan, with a total net assets of 103 million yuan at the end of the year, relying on the industry to provide more than 1,952 jobs, with an average annual payment of 20.62 million yuan in labor wages, and an average annual increase of 12,000 yuan per capita in the village where the enterprise is located, driving 309 households and 983 people to increase their income independently, helping small and medium-sized tea enterprises to raise 6.3 million yuan through joint guarantee credit, indirectly driving more than 700 people to work, organizing 17 sessions of professional farmer training, and completing more than 4,000 people, of which the proportion of left-behind women in rural areas reaches 83.6%, including 11 veterans, 5 disabled people, dozens of agricultural enterprises and 35,000 professional farmers and industrial workers in the town, which have played an important role in "driving a base, holding up an industry, and becoming rich tea farmers". There are 208,100 acres of EU organic standard tea gardens in the county, with a comprehensive annual output value of 2.086 billion yuan.
Guizhou Huanghongying Tea Industry Co., Ltd. is just a microcosm of the development of the tea industry in Jianzhong Town. In recent years, Jianzhong Town has made a lot of efforts around the tea industry, organically combined the development of the tea industry with eco-tourism resources and cultural resources in the town, developed the tea industry, established the brand, and made every effort to promote the high-quality development of the tea industry, so that "small tea" has become a "big industry" that promotes the stable increase of income of the masses.
In the next step, Jianzhong Town will continue to adhere to the development idea of "rejuvenating the town by industry, ecologically beautiful town, living tourism town, and culturally strong town", take the tea industry as the leading industry, actively expand the diversified development path of the tea industry, explore new opportunities and challenges in the fields of tea deep processing and derivatives development, and add new momentum to continue to promote high-quality economic and social development.
Source: Weng'an County Rong Media Center
Reporter: Wang Mingqing, Zeng Ni, Li Kunyun, Zhao Caixu
Editor: Chen Shanxuan
First trial: Ran Tingting
Second trial: Li Yongchun
Final review: Gu Qiao