Zhaoping County, Guangxi: the fragrance of tea floats into thousands of households

There are 215000 mu of primeval forest, which is the best preserved and richest vegetation in eastern Guangxi, with macaques, crocodile lizards, baby fish, Alsophila spinulosa and other precious animals and plants. Excellent soil quality, good water quality and pleasant climate have created the most comfortable "hotbed" for the origin of local tea culture and the development of tea industry. This is Wenzhu Town in Zhaoping County, a famous tea planting town with a profound tea history and rich tea culture.

Wenzhu Town is located in the middle reaches of the Guijiang River, with a forestry area of 404000 mu. It is a veritable mountain, forest and water village. The rich resources provide favorable conditions for the local people to develop tea cultivation. At present, Wenzhu Town has five kinds of special famous teas in Guangxi: Alpine Shiya Tea, Yunwu Tea, Chess Tea, Fuyun 6 and lobular tea. among them, the wild "Alpine Shiya Tea" won the International Consumer goods Fair and International Honor Award "International Special Honor Gold Award" in 1999. In 2007, it won the highest prize of China Agriculture in the 14th Yangling Agricultural High-tech Expo.

Since the 1990s, asparagus green tea has been planted on a large scale and gradually become a local agricultural characteristic industry. He Juan, secretary of the party committee of Wenzhu Town, said: "the party committee and government of Wenzhu Town have always adhered to the development orientation of the 'sacred place of bamboo tea fragrance and health preservation', taking the tea industry as a pillar industry to increase farmers' income, and by introducing tea processing plants to create a complete tea industry chain. at the same time, enhance the brand awareness of tea farmers and enterprises, start the brand of tea culture, and promote the development of the local economy."

At present, there are 12000 mu of tea gardens in Wenzhu Town, with 3927 people directly engaged in the tea planting and processing industry, accounting for 36.7% of the town's total population. There are 11 tea processing enterprises, and the annual output of dry tea has increased from 2.5 tons at the initial stage to more than 6000 tons now, achieving an annual output value of more than 6000 million yuan.

Zhou Shifu and Yang Yeqing of Xintian Group in Wenchu Village provided four college students by planting tea. More than a decade ago, by participating in the tea planting technology training course at that time, the couple planted tea, and at most they planted more than 5 mu of tea, and when they were done, they went to other places to help earn work fees, earning a lot of income. After a lot of hard work, Yang Yeqing felt very gratified that all the children had graduated from college.

On the way to visit the chess mountain tea garden, Zhang Kang, mayor of Wenchu Town, pointed to the winding but flat cement road and said: "in the past, traffic inconvenience has always been a deficiency restricting the development of our tea industry and the promotion of tea culture. After the cement road was built, we will actively cooperate with tea enterprises, strengthen the promotion and promotion of organic tea, promote base construction and variety improvement, improve the added value of tea, and enhance the influence of our own tea brands. Promote our green original asparagus tea. "

The reporter also learned that as early as 1987, the first large-scale tea processing enterprise in Zhaoping County was listed for business in Wenzhu Town. In 1989, "Green Tea No.2" produced by Chess Camellia Factory won the third place in the green tea industry of township enterprises in Guangxi. In 2012, Wenzhu Town was named "famous Town of Tea Industry in Guangxi". Chess "Zhaopinghong" black tea won the title of "famous Brand in China" and won the gold medal in the 9th International famous Tea Competition. In 2013, it became a high-end reception tea designated by the Consulate General of the Republic of Myanmar in Nanning.