This year's spring tea is fully mined The mining period is earlier than last year

China is the world's largest tea-producing country, and spring tea occupies the first place in the annual tea production, with the total output accounting for about 45% of the year. At present, spring tea is fully mined across the country, generally showing a trend of "from south to north, from low altitude to high altitude", and major producing areas such as Guangxi, Sichuan and Guizhou will usher in a concentrated tea picking period.

In the past few days, in the Meiling tea garden in Naxi District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, the rolling tea mountains spit out new shoots, like green waves, tea farmers carry tea baskets on their waists, shuttling between rows of tea trees, picking young shoots.
Yang Zuofen, a tea farmer in Meiling Village, Naxi District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province: This year's tea picking season is a week earlier than in previous years, so I get up very early every day to pick tea leaves, hoping to sell it at a good price this year.

In Lingshan, Guangxi, spring tea here is also being picked. The picked tea buds will be sold to Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei and other provinces after undergoing tea-making processes.
Zhang Tingmeng, person in charge of a tea company in Lingshan, Guangxi: We need a lot of labor here, providing a lot of jobs for the surrounding people, and our annual dry tea output is about 80,000 jin.
According to the survey of winter tea garden moisture of the China Tea Circulation Association, it is expected that the mining time of spring tea this year will be about 1 week earlier than in previous years.

Wang Qing, president of the China Tea Circulation Association: Judging from the current picking, the quality of this year's spring tea is generally better than the same period in previous years. If there is no large-scale extreme weather impact in spring, the national spring tea production in 2023 will increase compared with last year, coupled with the increase in the transaction price of fresh leaves, it is expected that the output value of spring tea this year will reach 210 billion yuan, an increase of more than 10% over last year.
Build a tea industry chain and promote the integrated development of tea culture and tourism
Tea is an important agricultural characteristic industry in China, in addition to the product itself, the cultural tourism industry driven by tea is also booming.
In Hongya County, Sichuan Province, the tea garden is green and green, where tourists can not only experience the fun of picking, but also feel the charm and charm of traditional tea culture, and the extension of the tea industry chain is more than that.

Tea Guest Space Catering Department, Hongya County, Sichuan Province Chen Zhouli: This is our tea meal, which is sausage bacon and fresh tea leaves we pick, which increases the aroma of our tea meal and increases the added value of tea. Our tea meals sell well because there are so many customers who order our tea meal sets.
In Anji, Zhejiang, although the white tea has not yet reached the picking period, there are already many tourists who come to check in. From selling tea to selling scenery, 10,000 mu of tea gardens have good scenery, driving the development of rural tourism.

Tourist: After coming to see the origin, we have a deeper understanding of Anji white tea, and may recommend it among our friends in the future.
Zhu Renyuan, head of Yingyuan Farm in Anji County, Zhejiang Province: We plan to reach 30,000 people in tourism (receiving tourists) this year.

This year, the main tea-producing areas have launched tea tourism routes and tea tourism products with their own characteristics, and the national tea cultural tourism industry has generally shown the distinctive characteristics of promoting tourism with tea, bringing tea with travel, cultural tourism convergence, and combining health care.
Wang Qing, President of China Tea Circulation Association: Especially at the end of last year, after the successful application of traditional Chinese tea-making skills and related customs and the opening of tourism at the beginning of this year, the tea cultural tourism market responded enthusiastically, and according to the current information, it is estimated that the total annual income of the tea-related cultural tourism industry should be at least more than 100 billion yuan.