Guizhou's tea industry flourishes in global market

Guizhou expands the scale of its high-quality tea exports. [Photo/ddcpc website]

Since 2007, Southwest China's Guizhou province has increased its investment in the development of the tea industry. By 2023, the tea plantation area in the province stabilized at 7 million mu (466,666.67 hectares), with a tea output of 469,000 metric tons and an output value of 64.38 billion yuan ($8.99 billion).

With the development of the Belt and Road, Guizhou's tea exports have been increasing, and tea enterprises exploring overseas markets are emerging. So far, 638,000 mu of export-recorded tea bases have been established. Guizhou also has 54 export-oriented tea production companies with a production capacity of 20,000 tons.

Tea has become the province's largest exported agricultural product. In 2023, Guizhou ranked ninth among China's provinces in tea exports, with an average export price of $16.9 per kilogram.

In May of this year, the Guizhou Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs hosted a training session on the export of agricultural products. Experts from related government departments and organizations talked about the challenges and opportunities faced by Guizhou's tea exports, international market laws and regulations, trade barriers, export enterprise qualifications, and foreign trade taxation.

By helping enterprises avoid risks and overcome international technological barriers, Guizhou achieved "zero notifications, zero return shipments" in tea exports in 2023.