China News Service, Yiyang, March 23 (Fu Jingyi and Tan Yunhe) The 2024 Dark Tea Garden Opening Festival in Anhua County, Hunan Province was held on the 23rd, marking that the 360,000 acres of tea gardens in Anhua County, the "Hometown of Dark Tea in China," have entered the full-scale exploitation period. New teas will be launched one after another. In 2023, the comprehensive output value of Anhua County's tea industry reached 25.2 billion yuan, an increase of 6% over the same period last year. It has been listed in the top ten of China's top 100 tea industry counties for fifteen consecutive years, realizing that one leaf can create an industry and enrich the people.
Anhua County, Hunan Province holds the 2024 Dark Tea Garden Opening Festival. Photo courtesy of Anhua County Media Center
Dark tea is one of the six major tea series and is also a unique tea in China. Anhua dark tea is named after it is produced in Anhua County, Hunan, China. The Anhua Dark Tea Opening Festival has been held in various key tea-producing towns and villages in the county since 2016. It has won widespread attention from foreign tea merchants and tourists. This year’s Opening Festival is themed “Safety, Ankang, Anhua Dark Tea” , aiming to fully demonstrate the unique charm and infinite vitality of Anhua’s dark tea industry to the outside world.
Pan Wenjian, deputy secretary of the Anhua County Party Committee and county magistrate, said in his speech that Anhua has been associated with tea for thousands of years. Tea has nourished the people of Anhua and created the soul of Anhua. The tea industry is not only an advantageous industry of Anhua, but also a hopeful industry that enriches the people. . The 2024 First China Dark Tea Conference and the 6th Hunan (Yiyang) Anhua Dark Tea Cultural Festival hosted in the second half of this year will accelerate the high-quality development of Anhua tea industry and write a story of coordinating the "three teas" and strengthening the tea industry in the county. A new chapter.
The tea industry is Anhua's advantageous industry, and it is also an industry of hope for enriching the people. Photo courtesy of Anhua County Media Center
The 2024 First China Dark Tea Conference and the 6th Hunan (Yiyang) Anhua Dark Tea Culture Festival are initially scheduled to be held in Anhua in September this year. The event will focus on "new products, new ideas, and new life" of Chinese dark tea. , to build a national production and sales docking platform in the field of dark tea to promote coordinated improvement of the industry. During this period, a series of activities will be held, including the 2024 Border Sales Tea Economic and Trade Fair, the 2024 First China Dark Tea Conference, and the National Dark Tea “New Products, New Creativity, and New Tea Drinks” method selection.
At the scene, Hunan Anhua Dark Tea Group Co., Ltd. and Hunan Guhe Tea Industry Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement, taking a solid step towards creating a new highland for the supply of new tea beverage raw materials in Anhua. At the same time, the "Tea Hunting Journey", a high-quality tea-tourism integration route, was released, recommending five high-quality travel routes as a "travel guide" to the tea town, and inviting guests and tourists to taste and feel the unique charm of the black tea town.
The 360,000 acres of tea gardens in Anhua County have entered the full-scale mining period, and new teas will be launched one after another. Photo courtesy of Anhua County Media Center
In the future, Anhua Dark Tea will continue to uphold traditional craftsmanship, continue to innovate and develop, and take "convenience, high-end, functionality, fashion and standardization" as the product innovation direction, vigorously promote the integration of tea technology, tea culture and tea industry, and comprehensively Improve the quality, brand, value, scale and efficiency of Anhua dark tea and promote a new round of high-quality development of the industry. (over)