Xinhua News Agency Fuzhou, April 26th Title: Fujian Fuding: The changes brought by "a leaf"
Xinhua News Agency reporter Gu Qianjiang , Zhang Yizhi, Xu Xueyi
A Tie, who has worked in other provinces for many years, returned to his hometown in 2011 - Fuding City, Fujian Province, on the junction of Fujian and Zhejiang. Five years later, he built the most decent building in the village; in 2019, at the age of 43, he married a virtuous wife. What makes this She ethnic man have good luck is a kind of tea, a specialty of Fuding - white tea .
A Tie (left) and his lover Wu Maohua (right) pick wilderness tea in the deep mountains (photo taken on April 1). Photo by Lin Shanchuan, Xinhua News Agency reporter
In the past 10 years, Fuding White Tea has emerged and has become a people-enriching industry with a comprehensive output value of more than 10 billion yuan. About two-thirds of the local population is engaged in white tea-related work, and Fuding has become the veritable "White Tea City".
"My dad is called 'A Jin', and someone joked with me, 'Now you A Tie is Jin Gui's life!'" A Tie, whose name is Li Zhaotie, said with a silly smile. The popular "Wild White Tea" produced by his tea garden.
A Tie is making white tea (photo taken on March 31). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lin Shanchuan
Fuding is surrounded by mountains and seas, and the history of white tea is long. At the end of the 18th century, Fuding white tea was spread from overseas Chinese to Southeast Asia and other places. Because of the long-term export, Chinese people knew very little about Fuding White Tea in the past.
The html where Fuding is located is Ningde in the past was one of the contiguous poverty-stricken areas in the country. In the 1990s, people went out to do business or work.
Local Tea Machinery technician Lin Youxi went to Beijing, Shanghai and other places to promote Fuding green tea and flower tea because his state-owned tea factory went bankrupt. In 2000, Lin Youxi returned to Fuding to start a business, contracted tea mountain to make organic green tea , and explored new production techniques such as white tea cakes, and used industry annual meetings to promote white tea. Some Fuding tea companies are constantly joining.
In 2007, the "Fuding City Tea Industry Development Leading Group" was established to lead enterprises to build the "Fuding White Tea" public brand, formulate industrial policies and promote implementation. In the following years, Fuding White Tea quickly won the favor of consumers. "Fuding White Tea began to appear in the tea market as a 'dark horse'." said Lin Youxi, who is already the chairman of Fujian Tianhu Tea Co., Ltd. .
This is a tea planting base (drone photo) of Fujian Tianhu Tea Co., Ltd. taken on March 31. Photo by Lin Shanchuan, Xinhua News Agency reporter
As Fuding white tea has become the new favorite in the tea industry, the people of Fuding who are working hard outside have returned home to join the tide of developing white tea.
In 2020, the main data of Fuding tea industry achieved new growth in the context of the new crown pneumonia epidemic: the total tea output was 32,400 tons, of which 25,300 tons of white tea, and the total comprehensive output value of the tea industry was 11.953 billion yuan, an increase of 12.2% year-on-year. More than half of the per capita disposable income of farmers in the city comes from tea production.
In April this year, the "Fuding White Tea" brand ranked fourth in the value of China's tea regional public brand with 5.215 billion yuan, and ranked among the top ten for 12 consecutive years.
This is a tea planting base (drone photo) of Fujian Tianhu Tea Co., Ltd. taken on April 1. Xinhua News Agency reporter Lin Shanchuan photographed
Today, white tea has become a pillar industry for Fuding to get rid of poverty and achieve rural revitalization. The industrial development model of "leading enterprises + small and medium-sized processing enterprises + tea garden base + cooperative + tea farmers" is becoming increasingly mature.
reporters learned that in the "No. 1 White Tea Town in China" Nodou Town , farmers transfer the excess tea garden to leading enterprises and get three incomes: land transfer rent, salary for working in the enterprise, and equity investment.
"Farmers have tea gardens and can work in tea companies. Of course, they have gotten rid of poverty and become rich." said Zhang Longgui, the mayor of the town.
staff reviewed the tea quality at the Liumiao Baicha Tea Quality Control Center located in Notou Town, Fuding City (photo taken on April 1). Xinhua News Agency reporter Lin Shanchuan
Liumiao Baicha chairman Zhuang Changqiang recalled that in 2012, when they first arrived at Daping Village, Ditou Town to operate, the village was dilapidated and overgrown with weeds. There were dozens of poor households with registered files and cards, and young people were too poor to find a wife.The rise of the white tea industry has changed all this. "Now villagers have houses, cars and tea gardens, and young men can choose their wives," he said.
At night at the Fuding, the small square by Tongshan Creek is very lively, with dancing and looking at the river with lights... In each teahouse, people sit around the table and taste the taste of white tea.
A leaf has created an industry, enriched the people, and quietly changed the temperament of a city.
