Shaanxi Yize Futea wants to organize tea caravan to Central Asia
19/05/2014 19:55
Shaanxi Yize Futea wants to organize tea caravan to Central Asia
19/05/2014 19:55
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Chinese company Shaanxi Yize Futea Co. Ltd is planning to organize tea caravan to Central Asian states, director of the company Hong Guang Ma.
He said that currently preparation works are underway and soon the caravan on camels will travel to Central Asia via Great Silk Road.
Ma announced this plans at the meeting with the delegation of journalists from Central Asia at tea fabric, which is located in Xi’an city of Shaanxi province. Within the visit, the journalists familiarized with process of production of unique black tea.
Tea has yellow substance, which can be seen on tea leaves. The substance is called “yellow flower”. Head of the fabric said that in 1,300s local tea producers paid attention to peculiarity of the tea. Researches showed that the tea is useful for human, it cleans blood, improves work of brain, stomach and hear. The cost of such tea is 100 Chinese yuans for 100 grams (about US$17).
The tea fabric organized a tea ceremony for the delegation of Central Asia and the participants had chance to taste this unique tea.
There are 34 tea fabrics in Xi’an, and Shaanxi Yize Futea Co. Ltd is the largest of them.
Xi’an also has tea dynasties. Genshe Jia represents one of them. His ancestors have been producing and trading tea since the eighth century.
He has two tea fabrics and museum, which tells about history of the dynasty. Here the visitors can also familiarize with tea, produced in the fabrics.
Shaanxi province is one of key regions of China. The capitals of the imperators of 14 dynasties were located in the province. Great Silk Road also started from this region. Goods like tea, silk, salt, spices and others went to Central Asia and further Europe from the province.
Today Shaanxi is one of the fast growing provinces of China and located in the center of China. Xi’an is a capital city of the province, where some 37.35 million people are living. Large enterprises of metallurgy, chemical, machinery, electronics and pharmaceutics operate in Shaanxi province.
President of China Xi Jinping presented an initiative of Great Silk Road economic zone in September 2013 to boost trade-economic ties with the Central Asia and Shaanxi province is part of it. The province already started to implement large-scale projects within the initiative.
The province also has large farms, which produce almost all types of vegetables. It is worth to mention that Chinese government support farmers. For example, the farmers are exempted from payment of taxes, while the Government covers part of money, spent for construction of greenhouses.
During the visit to China, the UzDaily reported visited one of such farms near Xi’an, where large number of greenhouses, which produce 74 types of vegetables like cabbage, tomato, etc.
Last year, the farm produced over 2 million vegetables and earned 2 billion yuans (about US$322,58 million). The vegetables are supplied both to internal and external markets.
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