China News Service, Nanning, September 18th (Zhang Guangquan, Wang Weichen, Lin Hao) "The Ancient Tea Boat Road • Liubao Tea Development Summit Forum" was held in Nanning, Guangxi on the 17th.

  The forum was jointly sponsored by China Tea Circulation Association, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Department of Commerce, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Agriculture and Rural Affairs Department, and Guangxi Wuzhou Municipal Government.

The forum aims to further promote the development and growth of Liupao tea industry, expand brand influence, and promote Liupao tea to a broader international market.

  Qian Xueming, vice chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Political Consultative Conference, pointed out in his speech that Guangxi has a long history of tea cultivation, a beautiful ecological environment and rich resources of tea tree varieties, making it one of the major tea producing areas in China.

Guangxi made a strategic decision to build the tea industry into a 100 billion yuan industry during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.

As one of the important tea varieties in Guangxi, Liupao Tea Juju will surely radiate stronger vitality and vitality. "Relying on the unique tea cultural advantages, the 'Tea Boat Road' will create greater glories."

  Wang Qing, president of the China Tea Circulation Association, said in his speech that Wuzhou, the origin of Liubao tea, is the source of the "Ancient Tea Boat Road".

In recent years, Wuzhou City has taken the rural revitalization as the command, the park construction as the starting point, and the reinforcement of the entire industrial chain as the key. Through the development of the Liubao tea industry, it has developed a three-industry of cultural empowerment, technology empowerment, and industrial empowerment. The integrated development path has a strong demonstration and leading role in the country.

  Jiang Liansheng, secretary of the Wuzhou Municipal Party Committee, pointed out in his speech that this year is the year when the RCEP comes into effect and the 3.0 version of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area will be launched soon.

This provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Wuzhou Liubao Tea to go to ASEAN and sell globally.

Wuzhou will actively explore and formulate international tea industry standards for ASEAN, continue to expand ecological tea gardens, improve tea quality, strengthen tea brands, expand the tea market, improve tea benefits, accelerate the construction of Liubao Ancient Town, and promote the integrated development of tea culture and tourism. , strive to build the Liubao tea industry into a characteristic industry that unites farmers, leads farmers, and enriches farmers, and strives to achieve a comprehensive output value of 20 billion yuan in Wuzhou Liubao tea industry by 2023, so that a leaf can become an industry and a wealthy people.

  The summit forum also held the awarding ceremony of Wuzhou Liubao Tea's foreign trade transformation and upgrading base, and announced the high-quality development initiative of Wuzhou Liubao tea industry.

  Zhong Changzi, Mayor of Wuzhou City, made a keynote presentation at the summit forum.

She said that the Liubao tea industry is a characteristic and advantageous industry that integrates the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in Wuzhou. Whether it is brand value or industrial output value, there is a lot of potential and development space, and the prospects are very good and promising.

Wuzhou warmly welcomes enterprises to combine the advantages of capital, technology, management, brand, etc. with Wuzhou's resources, location, policy advantages and industrial development potential, and promote more industrial projects to land in Wuzhou.

  It is understood that Wuzhou Liubao Tea, which has a history of more than 1,500 years, has become one of the important commodities on the Maritime Silk Road through the "Tea Boat Road". It enjoys a high reputation in Southeast Asia and is deeply loved by local consumers.

After years of deep cultivation in the market, Wuzhou Liubao Tea has developed from a single-selling "overseas Chinese tea" to a "best-selling tea", showing a good momentum of booming production and sales, and both volume and price.

From January to July 2022, the output of dried hair tea in Wuzhou City reached 5,307.02 tons, a year-on-year increase of about 20%; it is expected that the total output of Wuzhou Liubao tea will exceed 35,000 tons this year, and the comprehensive output value will exceed 16 billion yuan.

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