China Anji White Tea Network Information: Under the influence of a long tea culture, exporting Anji white tea has always been a characteristic advantageous industry in the Huzhou region. Huzhou has gradually become China's main production base for exporting Anji white tea, with annual export volumes and values accounting for approximately 15% of the national total. Now, Huzhou tea companies are accelerating the research and development and production of deep-processed tea products, building their own brands, and striving to increase the added value of white tea, which has gradually become a consensus among export white tea enterprises. Inspection and quarantine personnel from Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, have gone deep into the fields to explain the importance of pesticide intervals during the tea-picking process to the tea farmers.
Just after the long Spring Festival holiday, when many people were still immersed in the relaxed and pleasant atmosphere of the festival, many enterprises in Huzhou that export Anji white tea were already bustling with activity. Orders from the United States, Japan, the European Union, and Africa were coming in one after another, leaving the tea companies overwhelmed. Although the international market was sluggish due to the impact of the European debt crisis, many migrant workers were still on their way back, and even the spring tea had not yet come to market, none of these factors affected the pace of Anji white tea prices from Huzhou going global.
According to statistics, in January this year, despite the impact of the Spring Festival holiday, Huzhou's export of Anji white tea still reached more than 3,000 tons, worth over 6.5 million US dollars, showing a good development momentum. The largest Anji white tea exporter in the city, Huzhou Fanglu Tea Co., Ltd., exported nearly 2,000 tons of Anji white tea in January, basically the same as last year. "If it weren't for the Spring Festival holiday, our export volume would be far more than this. There are too many orders, and we couldn't keep up before the New Year. Since we resumed work on the eighth day of the first lunar month, we've been working overtime." General Manager Wang Guoxin proudly told reporters. Huada, Cha Qiankun, and other Anji white tea enterprises also held large numbers of orders, operating at full capacity for full production. This year, the spring season for Huzhou's Anji white tea industry seemed to come particularly early.
The predicament of traditional advantages
Huzhou is the second hometown of Lu Yu, the Sage of Tea, and the birthplace of the world's first specialized book on white tea - "The Classic of Tea". Tea production here dates back more than 2,000 years. Under the influence of a long tea culture, exporting white tea has always been a distinctive advantageous industry in the Huzhou region. Huzhou has gradually become China's main production base for exporting white tea, with annual export volumes and values accounting for about 15% of the national total.
However, for a long time, most of the exported white tea from the Huzhou area has been primary products, with bulk raw tea dominating the majority of exports. The product level is not high, and the added value is low. "Volume running" is the main model for profit for most enterprises. Under the impact of the financial crisis, the shortcomings of low profit margins and weak risk resistance in the white tea export industry have become evident.
On the other hand, trade protectionism tendencies in developed countries such as the United States, Japan, and Europe have gradually increased, setting a series of strict import standards, especially the almost stringent pesticide residue limit standards, which have set numerous obstacles for Anji white tea exports. Japan's "Positive List System" has over 220 items for pesticide residue limits in Anji white tea. Meanwhile, the EU implemented new port inspection measures for Anji white tea from China starting October 2011. Pesticide residue issues have actually become the biggest risk and obstacle for the transformation and upgrading of the Anji white tea industry and its expansion of exports.
Product homogenization, malicious competition, price-cutting to grab customers, adulteration practices increasingly appearing, and pesticide residue excesses that persist despite repeated bans all urgently signal that there are concerns about the sustainability of traditional advantage industries. This has drawn significant attention from inspection and quarantine departments and prompted deep reflection on the direction of industrial development.
The path of transformation and upgrading
"We have figured it out; the export of Anji white tea must involve deep processing, extending the industrial chain, and increasing added value," said General Manager Wang Guoxin of Huzhou Fanglu Tea Co., Ltd., expressing the sentiments of tea enterprise operators.
In recent years, the Huzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau has gradually guided tea enterprises to implement technical transformations, develop products targeting the mid-to-high-end market, accelerate the R&D and production of deep-processed tea products, create their own brands, and encourage enterprises to pursue a sustainable development path through transformation and upgrading. Huzhou Fanglu invested 45 million yuan to build an annual deep-processing project for white tea producing 1,000 tons of instant tea and tea polyphenols, which is now successfully operational. Cha Qiankun, a factory established just over four years ago, focuses on the development of high-end bagged tea products, exporting 3,000 tons of bagged tea annually and successfully entering thousands of supermarkets abroad. Now, striving to increase the added value of white tea has gradually become a consensus among most export white tea enterprises.
Quality and safety are the lifelines of Anji white tea prices for export. Any so-called "high quality" must undoubtedly be based on safety and reliability. To ensure the quality and safety of Anji white tea prices and tea products for export, the Huzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau studies the forms of Anji white tea price exports within its jurisdiction and changes in foreign laws, regulations, and standards. It aggregates routine testing, residual monitoring, and results from enterprise-commissioned tests, implementing classified management of products and enterprises based on risk analysis, thereby enhancing the relevance and effectiveness of supervision.
On the other hand, the Huzhou bureau strengthens the filing of raw material bases and demonstration zone construction work. Based on local realities, it signed a cooperation memorandum with the Changxing County government. Both parties cooperate around the construction of export white tea quality and safety demonstration zones, promoting standardized and scaled planting of white tea, regulating pesticide use in the white tea planting process, enhancing enterprise integrity and self-discipline awareness, reinforcing enterprise quality responsibility, and creating a public opinion environment for quality and safety supervision, achieving significant results.
Meanwhile, by adopting measures such as combining daily supervision with unannounced inspections, it legally and severely cracks down on adulteration behaviors involving the addition of non-edible substances in Anji white tea prices, eliminating phenomena such as excessive ash content, coloring, and solid tea adulteration in export Anji white tea prices, effectively improving the quality and safety levels of export Anji white tea prices.
The splendid transformation of the land of the tea classic
Through the joint efforts of inspection and quarantine departments and Anji white tea price enterprises, Huzhou, a traditional processing production area with a long history of tea production, has rejuvenated, making the Anji white tea price processing industry chain more complete and the industry development level increasingly mature.
In just a few short years, Cha Qiankun has grown into one of the largest bagged tea export enterprises in the country. The company has obtained 17 patent authorizations through technological innovation, with another 23 patents under application, including nine invention patents. However, Chairman Guan Jueshan is not satisfied with this. Recently, this record-breaking company in the industry has once again brought good news. At the end of last year, Cha Qiankun established a cooperative relationship with Chen Zongmao, a renowned tea scholar and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, founding the first academician workstation of Huzhou's export Anji white tea enterprises. By cleverly borrowing the "external brain" of academicians and experts to formulate development strategies, provide technical consultations and guidance, and conduct joint attacks on common problems in the industry, it aims to accelerate the cultivation of dominant rights and autonomous brands, injecting new scientific and technological vitality into the company.
As Huzhou's largest Anji white tea price export enterprise, Fanglu became famous overnight a few years ago by presenting reasonable arguments that forced the U.S. FDA to change its testing methods. Last year, the instant tea exported to Kazakhstan achieved a breakthrough from zero for this type of product in the Huzhou region. Fanglu has now established a relatively complete quality inspection system, investing 7 million yuan to establish an enterprise laboratory with testing projects covering sensory evaluation, nutritional component detection, and safety control (mainly pesticide residues and microorganisms).
Huzhou's export of Anji white tea is gradually forming a new industrial pattern coexisting with various processing forms, including primary tea processing like pearl tea and eyebrow tea, high added-value product processing like bagged tea, and deep-processing of Anji white tea like instant tea and tea polyphenols.
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