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 also gradually become the main production base for China's export of Anji white tea, accounting for about 15% of the national annual export volume and value. Now, Huzhou tea enterprises are accelerating the research and development and production of deep-processed tea products, creating their own brands, and trying to increase the added value of Anji white tea, which has gradually become a consensus among export Anji white tea enterprises. Inspection and quarantine personnel from Zhejiang Huzhou go deep into the fields to explain the importance of pesticide intervals during the tea-picking process to tea farmers. After the long Spring Festival holiday, when many people are still immersed in the relaxed and pleasant atmosphere of the festival, many Anji white tea price-exporting enterprises in Huzhou have already presented a busy scene. Orders from the United States, Japan, the EU, and Africa have come one after another, making the tea enterprises unable to handle them all. Although the international market is sluggish due to the impact of the European debt crisis, many migrant workers are still on their way back, and even the spring tea has not yet hit the market, but these factors have not affected the steps of Anji white tea prices in Huzhou going global at all.
According to statistics, in January this year, despite the influence of the Spring Festival holiday, the export of Anji white tea in the Huzhou area still reached more than 3000 tons and over 6.5 million US dollars, showing a good development momentum. The largest Anji white tea export enterprise in the city - Huzhou Fanglu Tea Co., Ltd. exported nearly 2000 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 were too many orders, and we simply couldn't keep up before the New Year. Since the eighth day of the first lunar month, we have been working overtime." General Manager Wang Guoxin proudly told reporters. Huada, Cha Qiankun, and other Anji white tea enterprises also hold a large number of orders, running at full capacity for full production. This year, the spring of the Anji white tea industry in Huzhou seems to have arrived particularly early.
The Dilemma of Traditional Advantages
Huzhou is the second hometown of Lu Yu, the tea sage, and the birthplace of the world's first specialized book on Anji white tea prices - "The Classic of Tea". Tea production in this region dates back more than 2000 years. Under the influence of a long tea culture, exporting Anji white tea prices has always been a characteristic advantageous industry in the Huzhou area. Huzhou has also gradually become the main production base for China's export of Anji white tea prices, with annual export volumes and values accounting for about 15% of the national total.
However, for a long time, most exports of Anji white tea in the Huzhou area have been primary products, with bulk raw tea occupying the absolute majority of the export share, low product grades, and low added value. "Volume" has been the main model for profit for most enterprises. Under the impact of the financial crisis, the shortcomings of low profit margins and poor risk resistance in the export Anji white tea industry have been exposed without doubt.
On the other hand, trade protectionist tendencies in developed countries represented by the United States, Japan, and Europe have gradually increased. A series of strict import standards have been established, especially the almost stringent pesticide residue limit standards, which have set numerous obstacles for Anji white tea prices exports. Japan's "Positive List System" has more than 220 items for pesticide residue limit standards in Anji white tea prices. And since October 2011, the EU has implemented new port inspection measures for China's Anji white tea prices. Pesticide residue issues have actually become the biggest risk and obstacle for the Anji white tea prices industry to transform and upgrade and expand exports.
Product homogenization leading to vicious competition, price pressure to grab customers, the emerging adulteration and counterfeiting behavior, and the continuous problem of excessive pesticide residues all urgently convey a signal: there are concerns about the sustainability of traditional advantageous industries. This has attracted the high attention of 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; Anji white tea prices exports 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 voices 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 research and development and production of deep-processed tea products, create their own brands, and encourage enterprises to follow a sustainable development path of transformation and upgrading. Huzhou Fanglu invested 45 million yuan to build an Anji white tea price deep-processing project with an annual output of 1000 tons of instant tea and tea polyphenols, which has now been successfully put into operation. Cha Qiankun, which has only been in business for more than four years, is committed to the development of high-end teabag products, exporting 3000 tons of teabags annually and successfully entering thousands of supermarkets abroad. Now, finding ways to increase the added value of Anji white tea prices has gradually become a consensus among most export Anji white tea price enterprises.
Quality and safety are the lifelines of export Anji white tea prices. Any so-called "high quality" must undoubtedly be based on safety and reliability. To ensure the quality and safety of export Anji white tea prices and tea products, the Huzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau studied the forms of export Anji white tea trade in the jurisdiction and changes in foreign laws, regulations, and standards. They summarized routine inspections, residual monitoring, and enterprise commissioned inspection results, implementing classified management of products and enterprises based on risk analysis, thereby improving 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, they signed a cooperation memorandum with the Changxing County government. Both parties deepen cooperation around the construction of the export Anji white tea quality and safety demonstration zone, promoting standardized and scaled planting of Anji white tea, standardizing pesticide use in the planting process, enhancing enterprise integrity and self-discipline awareness, strengthening enterprise quality primary responsibility, and fostering a public opinion atmosphere for quality and safety supervision, achieving significant results.
At the same time, measures such as combining daily supervision with flight inspections are taken to severely crack down on illegal behaviors of adulteration and counterfeiting by adding non-edible substances to white tea, eliminating phenomena such as excessive ash content, coloring, and containing solid tea in export white tea, and effectively improving the quality and safety level of export white tea.
The Glamorous Transformation in the Homeland of the Tea Classic
After the joint efforts of inspection and quarantine departments and white tea enterprises, Huzhou, a traditional processing area with a long history of tea production, has rejuvenated, presenting a more complete export white tea processing industry chain and increasingly mature industry development levels.
Cha Qiankun has grown into one of the largest teabag export enterprises nationwide in just a few years. The company has obtained 17 patent authorizations through technological innovation, with another 23 patents under application, including 9 invention patents. However, Chairman Guan Jueshan is not satisfied with this. This record-breaking enterprise in the industry recently announced another piece of good news. Last December, Cha Qiankun established a cooperative relationship with Chen Zongmao, a tea science master and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, setting up the first academician workstation for Huzhou's export Anji white tea enterprises. Cleverly borrowing the "external brain" of academicians and experts to formulate development strategies for the company, provide technical consultation and guidance, and conduct joint attacks on common problems in the industry, aiming to accelerate the cultivation of dominance and autonomous brands, injecting new scientific and technological vitality into the company.
As Huzhou's largest white tea export enterprise, Fanglu gained fame several years ago by standing firm on principle, forcing the U.S. FDA to change its testing methods. The company's export of instant tea to Kazakhstan last year achieved a breakthrough from zero in this category for the Huzhou region. Fanglu has now established a relatively complete quality testing system, investing 7 million yuan to establish an enterprise laboratory covering multiple aspects such as sensory evaluation, nutritional component testing, and safety control (mainly pesticide residues and microorganisms).
Huzhou's export 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-value-added product processing like teabags, and white tea deep processing like instant tea and tea polyphenols.
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