At 10 o'clock on October 28, the Huangshan Tea Special Train, loaded with 30 containers weighing about 580 tons, departed from Hefei North Railway Station and was transported to Tashkent in Central Asia, marking the breakthrough of the Huangshan-Hefei-Tashkent "Tea Special Train" through the 100-container mark. And this is only the beginning of Huangshan tea to the countries of Central Asia and Central Europe.
Huangshan Songluo tea production area
Famous tea city, brilliant millennium
Huangshan City is a national key tea producing area and the main tea producing area in Anhui Province. Huangshan has a history of about 2,000 years of tea cultivation, the Tang Dynasty tea Saint Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" has a record of tea production in Shezhou, and the famous poem "Fuliang Shezhou, All Nations Come to Seek" records the historical grandeur of Huangshan tea.
With a history of 600 years, Xiuning Songluo Tea has created a precedent for stir-fried green tea in China, and Shexian Laozhu Dafang is the predecessor of West Lake Longjing Tea. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Tun Lu and Qi Hong exported in large quantities. From the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, Huizhou (now part of Huangshan City) was an important tea trade and tea culture center in China.
Nearly 10,000 square kilometers of Huangshan land emits tea aroma everywhere. Thanks to the unique ecological climate of the mysterious line of 30 degrees north latitude, every piece of Huangshan tea is a good product. Among them, Qi Hong, Huangshan Maofeng and Taiping Monkey Kui are listed among the top ten famous teas in China, Tun lu is known as green gold, Songluo, Dafang, Dishuixiang and Keemun An tea are famous for their characteristics, and in 2016, Huangshan City was named "China's Famous Tea Capital".
At present, There are about 800,000 mu of tea gardens in Huangshan City, of which organic tea, green food tea and pollution-free tea have been certified to more than 98%, ranking first in the province. In 2020, Huangshan will produce 40,000 tons of tea, with a comprehensive output value of 15 billion yuan, of which self-operated exports will be more than 1.6 billion yuan, and it is the national mei tea export distribution center. In 2021, the output value of the whole industrial chain of tea in Huangshan is expected to be 18 billion yuan.
At present, the deep processing output value of Huangshan tea is about 150 million yuan, and the city's tea e-commerce sales are about 1 billion yuan. Huangshan's tea industry and tea industry, through the integration of science and technology, industry, Internet and fashion elements, its latecomer advantages and development prospects are gratifying.
Diversified development, a hundred flowers blooming
In recent years, the local tea enterprises in Huangshan City have gradually grown, and Xie Yuda, Lao XieJia, Xiangyuan, Songluo, Xin'anyuan, Monkey Pit Tea, and Liubaili are famous and strong. At the same time, Huangshan Small Pot Tea, Unilever and other foreign leading tea enterprises landed, driving the diversified development of Huangshan Tea.
Huangshan tea has a few thousand yuan a pound of Yangchun white snow, such as Huangshan small pot tea mainly in the high-end market, Taiping Monkey Kui core production area of Monkey Pit Village famous tea sold for thousands of yuan per kilogram. At the same time, there are three or five hundred yuan of famous tea to meet the middle-income group. There are also eyebrow tea exported to Africa for four or five yuan per kilogram, and eyebrow tea bred by good mountains and good water is deeply loved by African people.
With the development of the times, while satisfying the traditional tea drinking group, Huangshan tea enterprises have continuously developed and produced fashionable tea products in recent years. Among them, the Lipton production and research base in Huangshan District is Lipton's China base, and Huangshan tea is processed and produced into milk tea and other products and sold to other places, and the annual output value will reach 1 billion yuan in the future. Huangshan District's hydraulic tea enterprises, R & D and production of substitute tea, flavored tea, tea bags, milk tea, fruit tea, filterless tea bags, etc., is the favorite of large catering chain enterprises; Huangshan District Hualuyuan production of a variety of tea and herbs instant powder, concentrate and pure natural solid beverages, sold to Japan, Germany and other countries.
Xin'anyuan Tea Company in Xiuning County, the winter tea developed and produced is developed into extract tablets, cold brew tea, refreshing sugar, nutritional tablets, healthy gummy and masks, and also developed winter tea vodka and winter tea beer. The price of winter tea beer is higher than most beers on the market. Hexiu Biotechnology Co., Ltd. in Huangshan High-tech Zone applies the freeze-dried powder extracted from Huangshan tea leaves to the research and development and production of a series of cosmetics of its own brands.
Various flower teas have become an industry in Huangshan. The person in charge of Huangshan Monkey Pit Tea Co., Ltd. told reporters that the new products they developed and produced in the fusion of monkey kui and flowers have a good taste. Xiuning Xin'anyuan's cold brew tea is specifically aimed at the European market, put a small bag of tea into a bottle of mineral water, you can drink refreshing and sweet tea. Delicious and delicious Huangshan tea has been given more creativity, better fashion, and richer experience.
The Ming Dynasty medical master Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records the miraculous medicinal function of Songluo tea. The person in charge of Xiuning Wang Guangxi Songluo Tea Enterprise said that on the basis of continuing to do a good job in exporting tea and famous tea, it will excavate the tea health care and medicinal functions of the core production areas of Songluo tea, develop and produce tea with health care and therapeutic effects, and make Songluo tea go further.
Across the sea, tea fragrance overseas
"Trains full of cultural tea aroma rushed to Central Europe and Central Asia, interpreting the value of the Wanli Tea Ceremony in the new era." On November 4, Ling Yun, secretary of the Huangshan Municipal Party Committee, commented on the significance of the Central European and Central Asian trains.
On August 27 this year, the Huangshan-Hefei-Tashkent "Tea Special Train" was officially opened, opening up a new land logistics channel for Huangshan tea exports. Up to now, a total of 3 custom special trains of Huangshan tea have been sent, and a total of 105 containers of tea have been sent to the Central Asian train.
The data shows that compared with other logistics channels, the Central Asian express train reduces the logistics cost of the whole process by about 20% and reduces the carbon emissions by more than 30 tons, which provides a new cross-border logistics solution for the foreign trade export of Huangshan tea. In the next step, we will actively integrate the Sino-European freight demand of Huangshan enterprises, and strive to achieve a new channel for China-Europe express trains and break through new categories of freight goods before the end of the year.
Historically, Huangshan tea continued to go overseas through the Silk Road. Overland, the desert is boundless, the camel bell is leisurely, and the aroma of hui tea is in the outbound commercial goods. By sea, Chinese merchant ships to Sweden and other countries took with them a large amount of emblem tea. In 1745, the Swedish "Gothenburg" ran aground and sank on the way back, and hundreds of years later it was salvaged out of the water, and the sealed Xiuning songluo tea on board is still intact.
When the British royal family praised the sweet and fragrant aroma of Qi Hong, when the Gothenburg and the desert camel bell sent Huangshan tea to Eurasian countries, when the national leaders gave Huangshan tea as a national gift to foreign heads of state, when Friends from Africa and Europe drank tea from Huangshan, Huangshan tea was also given multiple functions such as spreading Chinese culture and commercial civilization.
At present, there are still a large number of tea enterprises engaged in tea exports in Huangshan City, which are exported to Africa and Europe (including Central Asian trains) through shipping and railway freight, and the number and transaction volume of tea exported are among the best in the national tea region.
In Huangshan City Tunxi Yipin Tea Company, in Xiuning Songluo Tea Enterprise, when the reporter saw a box of tea in the spacious warehouse with the words "Products of the People's Republic of China" written on the outside, he sincerely sighed that Huangshan tea is Huangshan's, but also the world, when going out, it represents China, and the pride is born.
Wu Xudong, chairman of the Huangshan Jiaotong Investment Group, told reporters that he will strive to achieve 5 to 7 annual China-Europe tea special trains in the next year, open a multimodal transport channel from Huangshan to Ningbo Seaport in a timely manner, and strive to build Huangshan into a tea export freight distribution center in East China.
Zhang Zhengzhu, deputy mayor in charge of Huangshan City, said that the quality of Huangshan tea is excellent, the brand is loud, the scale of tea enterprises is also prominent in the country, and the industrial chain is complete. In the next step, Huangshan City will continue to grow the tea industry, continue to do a good job in the ecological control of tea gardens, make Huangshan tea into a better quality healthy tea, and better go to the domestic market and the European and American markets. Huangshan is changing from a big tea city to a strong tea city.
Xin'an Evening News Anhui Network Dawan News Reporter Wu Yongquan / Photo Report