A total of 217 people from all over the country were recommended. In the end, only 31 "Industry Influencers of 2022" who played a leading role and made important contributions in the fields of tea culture, tea industry, and tea technology were selected. Guo Guiyi, professor of th

Recently, the "2022 Industry Influencer Figure" selection event hosted by the Chinese Tea People Association and China Tea Industry Alliance came to an end. A total of 217 people from all over the country were recommended. In the end, only 31 "Industry Influencers of 2022" who played a leading role and made important contributions in the fields of tea culture, tea industry, and tea technology were selected. Guo Guiyi, professor of the Tea School of Xinyang Agricultural and Forestry University, was selected, fully affirming Guo Guiyi's contribution to the development of tea culture, tea industry and tea technology over the past 40 years.

It is understood that Guo Guiyi graduated from the Tea Department of Anhui Agricultural University in July 1983 to major in mechanical tea making. He is currently the dean of the Tea School, Party Secretary, and Second-level Professor of Xinyang Agricultural and Forestry College. He is a national first-level tea reviewer and Henan Agricultural University and Henan Science and Technology master's degree in tea science; he is a member of the Horticulture (including tea science) teaching guidance sub-committee of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Higher Education Institutions from 2018 to 2022, a member of the Ministry of Education's Supply and Marketing Cooperation Vocational Education Teaching Steering Committee from 2021 to 2025, a deputy chairman of the teaching steering committee of agricultural plant production teaching in provincial universities, a member of the National Tea Standardization Technical Committee , a executive director of the Chinese Tea Society , and a deputy chairman of the Tea Sensory Review and Inspection Professional Committee, a director of the China International Tea Culture Research Association, and a vice president of the Henan Tea Culture Research Association .

For 40 years, Guo Guiyi has always insisted on completing education and teaching work seriously, cultivated more than 3,000 tea students, and created a large number of excellent tea culture promotion, tea industry management, technology and other related talents, providing talent and intellectual support for the development of the tea industry.

In addition, Guo Guiyi is based in Henan Province and has done a lot of work to standardize Henan's tea industry. In 2008, he led the formulation of the national standard GB/T 22737-2008 of Xinyang Maojian Tea, the main tea product of Henan Province, achieved a breakthrough in the formulation of the national standard "zero" of Xinyang . In 2019, he presided over the formulation of the newly developed Xinyang Black Tea Supply and Marketing Cooperative Industry Standard GH/T 1248-2019 of Xinyang Black Tea, participated in the formulation of the national standard GB/T 40633-2021 "Tea Processing Terms", and also actively helped tea enterprises to formulate enterprise tea product standards. Screen for suitable promotional tea tree varieties and develop supporting technologies. In 2016, Guo Guiyi undertook the sub-topic of the National Key R&D Plan: Research and Demonstration of Integration of Chemical Fertilizer and Pesticide Reduction and Efficiency Increase Technology in Henan Tea Garden. In 2019, he undertook the sub-topic of the National Key R&D Plan: Xinyang Maojian Ecological and Economic Tea Tree Variety Screening and Supporting Cultivation Technology. In 2021, he undertook the sub-topic of the National Key R&D Plan: Integration and Application of Tea Quality and Efficiency Improvement and Efficiency Improvement Technology in Dabie Mountains. In 2004, Guo Guiyi won the second prize of Henan Science and Technology Progress Award for the selection and introduction of new high-quality and high-resistant tea tree varieties. In 2013, he won the third prize of Henan Science and Technology Progress Award for the evaluation and application promotion of Xinyang Tea Tree Germplasm Resource census evaluation and application promotion, and made positive contributions to the improvement of tea trees in Henan Province.

40 years ago, Guo Guiyi has measured the Henan tea area with his steps and wrote his papers in tea gardens and tea making workshops.He traveled to major tea-producing cities, counties, major tea-producing townships and important tea-producing villages in Henan Province, and provided technical training and on-site guidance for tea areas, tea enterprises, and tea farmers; he focused on giving full play to his professional advantages, used professional tea sensory evaluation methods to review tea samples, put forward suggestions for fresh leaf management and tea making improvements, and also expanded to tea marketing, tea culture, tea art and other training to promote the technological progress of tea areas in Henan Province; actively organized national vocational skills tea appraisal, and was invited to participate in the tea industry activities many times , served as a referee and expert judge, has a high academic status and popularity in the tea industry. He has conducted in-depth theoretical and applied research on the traditional famous Chinese tea Xinyang Maojian Tea, and has successively compiled and published the "Xinyang Historical and Cultural Series·Tea Volume", participated in the compilation and publication of "Central Plains Tea Classic", "Chinese Famous Tea Chronicles", "Chinese Tea History", "Tea Standards and Regulations". This year, he participated in the compilation and publication of "Tea Review and Inspection (Fifth Edition)" and published more than 100 academic papers, making positive contributions to the publicity and promotion of Xinyang Maojian Tea and the development of the tea industry.

It is precisely because of his 40 years of hard work in tea, that Guo Guiyi has won many honorary titles. In 2008, he won the 4th Higher Education Teacher Award of the Ministry of Education; in 2009, he was awarded the Provincial May 1st Labor Medal; in 2011, he was named Henan Province's outstanding expert by the Henan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Provincial People's Government; in 2018, he was awarded the title of National Technical Expert of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security; in 2019, he was selected as the "Central Plains Thousand Talents Plan" for the special support of high-level talents in Henan Province - the famous teaching teacher of Zhongyuan; in 2019, he was approved as the National Skill Master Studio of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance in 2019: Guo Guiyi Skill Master Studio; in 2020, he was awarded the "Outstanding Chinese Tea Person"; in April this year, Guo Guiyi was awarded the "Special Contributor" of the Xinyang Tea Culture Festival by the organizing committee of the Xinyang Tea Culture Festival; in June this year, he was recognized as a leading talent in Class B of high-level talents.