Tea in China

Abstract

Tea drinking in China could be traced back to the Shengnong period, around 4000 years ago. Some associated aspects such as the history of tea, spread of tea to other countries, development of tea industry since 1950, tea production, tea export, types of tea and tea cultivars in China have been discussed in this paper. Five major features China tea industry were introduced in recent years: no-pollution tea production, promotion of sanitary (clean) production, development of premium teas, development of deep processing value add. products in tea industry as well as the intensification of scientific technical support to the tea growers.