date:Dec 31, 2013
domestic big names including Longjing in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, and Tieguanyin in Anxi, Fujian province. Overseas, Wuyuan tea was virtually unknown.
For some time we blindly followed what other places were doing, Hong says. We sold beauty-slimming tea, health-preserving tea, whatever was popular in the market.
Changes came in the early 1990s when China adopted the concept of green food and standardized trademarks and certification accordingly. In 1996, 53 hectares of tea-growing areas in