Xinhua News Agency Nanning / Kuala Lumpur, September 18th Newsletter | A cup of tea: China-ASEAN tea fragrance blends and brews new rhyme for cooperation

The New York Times reporter Wu Zhou Wang.

"In many'time-honored'Chinese restaurants in Malaysia, no matter if you order a cup of hot tea or iced tea, in most cases, a cup of'Chinese tea 'is served, and many of them are still brewed with Liubao tea," said Guo Junbang, president of Malaysia Liubao Tea Association and director of Malaysia Chinese Tea Merchants Association. "This is a cultural memory that has been passed down for a hundred years."

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Liubao tea "took root and sprouted" in Malaysia, starting with the tin miners who went to Nanyang to make a living in their early years. In the mid-19th century, the scorching sun, hot and humid mining environment made Liubao tea carried by a large number of Chinese workers in Guangdong and Guangxi a "life-saving tea" for cooling, relieving summer heat, removing dampness and nourishing the stomach. "At that time, it would be much easier to recruit workers if the mine had the sign 'Liubao supply today'." Huang Wenqing, the head of Liubao Tea Malacca Warehouse in Malacca, Malaysia, said.

With the continuous growth of overseas demand, the six-burg town in the mountains of Guizhou once tea garden spread all over the country almost domestic tea plantation. " year after year, the rare six-burg town tea merchant Chiang Yongchang told reporters, at the time the tea trade flourished, many Guangdong tea merchants also specialized in the six-burg town to set up a tea farm to collect tea.

After the founding of New China, Chinese "Lower South Ocean" gradually became a history, but the long journey to the ocean has been rooted in Malaysia, Singapore and other places, and gradually integrated into the local life. Today in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Ipu, Malacca and other places, tea halls and restaurants are commonly seen in deep brown, with the smell of penguin, Lingnan Sixburg tea, "free time six" has become a lot of Malaysian Chinese leisure daily.

Sixburg tea to the overseas, sixburg town core production area of the lush tea factory is its witness and our factory predecessor was founded in 1955 in the sixburg district tea field. After the factory raw processed sixburg tea will be provided to the tea factory, Guilin tea factory re-processing, overseas sales. "Tea factory manager Jiang Zhou said, with the arrival of the millennium, the rise of black tea products for the sixburg tea industry to create an opportunity to explore and innovate.

According to reports, in 2004, Wuzhou, Guangxi listed Liubao tea production as the key support of agricultural advantages; In 2014, Liubao tea making skills were listed in the national intangible cultural heritage list; In 2022, "Chinese Traditional Tea Making Techniques and Related Customs" passed the review and was included in the UNESCO Human Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Liubao Tea Making Technology is one of the representative projects in this application...

Since 2021, the area of Wuzhou tea gardens has expanded from 124,200 mu to 402,700 mu, the annual output of Liubao Tea refined tea has climbed from 25,000 tons to nearly 40,000 tons, and the comprehensive output value has jumped from 11 billion yuan to over 25 billion yuan.

At present, more and more tea companies are looking at the huge potential of the international market, and South-South ASEAN is carrying out advertising promotional activities.The international standard sampling is regularly tested to establish a solid foundation for improving the quality of the tea exports.According to the statistics of the customs of the country, the port of the country exports 87.5 tons of tea in 2024, with a value of 10 million yuan.

At the International Tea Exhibition in Malawi, which was held yesterday, Sixburg Tea was prominent. More and more Sixburg Tea brands and varieties from China actively participated in the exhibition, showing a variety of tea forms and traditional crafts.

"When I first went to Malaysia to promote it, I found that some locals even know Liubao tea better than us." Li Peiyong, sales manager of Cangsong Tea Factory, said, "Many people bring exquisite wooden box tea, some of which are daily ration tea, and some of them are old tea collections left by their ancestors. In the end, the promotion meeting often becomes a tasting meeting for both sides. In order to adapt to the Malaysian market, we have also made adjustments in packaging and marketing."

At the end of last year, the 6th Bourg Tea Promotion Center in Guangxi, Malaysia and the 6th Bourg Tea Promotion Center in Guangxi, Malaysia, unveiled, marking a new phase in the cooperation between the Chinese and Malay Tea Industry.

"Sixburg tea is the art of time, many tea friends believe that the climate of Malaysia is stable, very suitable for the storage of sixburg tea and fermentation, there is the saying of the 'top three years of the year.'"Huan said, "In the future we plan to build a scalable industrial park, build here as a base for sixburg tea for ASEAN and the world."

"There used to be a saying called 'tea and the world'. Chinese tea exports overseas are not only economic exchanges, but also an opportunity for cultural appreciation and mutual learning." Guo Junbang said, "Through a cup of tea, people communicate face to face, and people from different countries and regions get closer to each other with tea as a medium and meet because of tea."