Tea deepens tie between Guizhou and Brazil

As one of the origin areas of tea in China, Guizhou province is known for its high quality and pollution-free tea. During an event promoting Guizhou's intangible cultural heritages held at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 2, Guizhou tea won the applause of locals.

According to Josafa Carlos de Siqueira, rector of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, tea is one of the intangible cultural heritages in Guizhou, and he hopes it will serve as a bridge to further exchanges between Guizhou and Brazil.

Josafa Carlos de Siqueira, rector of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, delivers a speech at the promotion event. [Photo/chinanews.com]

Its natural environment conditions of low latitude, high altitude, little sunshine, and cloudy weather endows Guizhou tea with a special, top-level quality. Guizhou green tea has become a protected geographical indication product, which means the quality and brand of Guizhou tea has earned recognition from the public.

Guizhou has over 600 species of tea plants, 150,000 of over 200-year-old tea plants, and tens of thousands of thousand-year-old tea plants, which makes it one of the provinces with the richest conservation of tea varieties in China.

Guizhou delegation poses for a group photo at the promotion event. [Photo/chinanews.com]

By 2018, Guizhou's tea plantation area has reached 7.52 million mu (501,333 hectares) and ranked first in China. In addition, the annual output of Guizhou tea exceeded 362,000 tons.

Guizhou will keep expanding its tea industry and explore more possibilities in tea products, as the global consumption of green tea is expected to increase from 5.5 million tons to 8 million tons by 2027, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.