一脉悠远的茶香，通过一场茶叶盛宴氤氲开来。

        第三届中国国际茶叶博览会5月15日至19日在杭州国际博览中心举行，吸引了海内外数以万计的茶文化爱好者。杭州城，绵绵不绝都是茶的气息。

一场以茶为名的盛宴

        本届展会以“茶和世界，共享发展”为主题，展示展销总面积约7万平方米，标准展位3125个。其中，国际重点采购商176名，涵盖了英国、新西兰、斯里兰卡、马来西亚、印度、日本、韩国等27个国家和地区。

        展会期间，一系列丰富多彩的重大主题活动同期举行，包括中国－中东欧国家农业部长会议暨农业经贸论坛、“西湖论茶”——中国茶业国际高峰论坛、中国茶产业T20峰会、国际茶咖对话、贫困地区茶品牌建设论坛、国际茶学院（所）长会议、茶乡旅游发展大会、中国当代茶文化发展论坛等。

        “茶者，南方之嘉木也。”浙江因其得天独厚的地理环境，向来是我国茶叶的重要产地之一。全省采摘茶园亩均产值超过7550元，稳居全国首位，并涌现出松阳、安吉等一批亩产值超万元的高效示范县。

        今年浙江参展的茶产品是近三届最丰富的：一是参展规模最大，参展企业数量达到241家，展位数达到453个，均为近三届之最；二是参展茶品质量上乘，大多数参展茶品都是各地“斗茶”比赛的优胜者，代表了各地的最高水准；三是参展品类最为丰富，除了主打的名优绿茶，还有黄茶、红茶、黑茶、青茶，以及茶日用品、茶食品等深加工产品。

        浙江展馆的设计布展也很有特色，全部采用特装展示，展位设计既有鲜明的江南水乡特色，也有浓郁的茶乡风情。可以说，每一个展位，就是一个迷你型特色茶馆。

        “天下名茶数龙井，龙井上品在狮峰。”浙江省茶叶集团（以下简称浙茶集团）在此次展会上携旗下全品牌茶产品盛大亮相，并启动狮峰品牌全球招商计划，向全世界的茶爱好者推介来自西湖产地的好茶，传递全民饮好茶的理念。

        本次展位上，狮峰品牌区块就以狮峰山景观为主要设计元素，风格素雅古朴，凸显品牌的格调与品质。浙茶集团狮峰公司总经理陆耿林表示，打造中国高端龙井茶品牌、让茶文化融入生活，始终是公司的信念与愿景。

        除了“狮峰”之外，浙茶集团运营的内贸茶叶品牌还包括“天香”“陈泰昌”“感德龙馨”“协茶2018”等。本次参展产品以杭州特色名优茶西湖龙井茶和九曲红梅为主，兼具安吉白茶、漳平水仙、福鼎白茶、普洱茶、滇红、花草茶等。

        展位现场不仅好茶云集，活动也是丰富多彩。制茶人讲述茶文化，茶艺师开展茶艺表演，并推出传统国粹变脸及长嘴壶表演，引来现场不少茶友驻足观赏。

一片叶子背后的故事

        本届茶博会首次设立扶贫展区，重点支持“三区三州”产茶区参展，免除所有展位搭建费用，共有14个省58个县的82家企业参加，覆盖了武陵山、秦巴山、大别山、罗霄山等8个贫困片区。

        “一片感恩叶，携手奔康路。”在四川省广元市茶叶产业发展座谈会上，广元市青川县青坪村的村民代表将这块由全体村民签字的字匾，交到了“中国白茶之乡”浙江安吉县黄杜村村民的手中，表达青川人民的感激之情。

        2018年4月9日，黄杜村20名村民提出愿意捐赠1500万株茶苗帮助其他省份贫困地区的群众早日脱贫，最后在全国范围内确定了3省4县作为受捐对象，青川是四川省唯一的受捐县。

        去年10月，小小的“白叶一号”茶苗，带着浙江安吉黄杜村父老乡亲的深情厚谊，在广元市青川县落地生根。

        广元地处南北气候交界线和东西地理分界线，南北兼具的气候资源，山清水秀的生态环境，富硒富锌的土壤条件，铸就了广元不可复制的特殊自然优势，是发展名优高香有机茶的最佳区域。广元产茶始于商周、盛于唐宋，至今已有近三千年的种茶历史。

        如今，广元市通过线上线下相结合，不断拓宽茶叶市场，营销网络覆盖全国几十个大中城市，产品远销亚、欧、美、非等多个国家和地区。

        “白叶一号”在广元的落地只是浙江帮扶广元的一个缩影。自1996年起，浙江开始对口帮扶广元，帮助广元茶产业发展从小到大、从单一品种到全面开花，取得显著成果。

        值得一提的是，浙江帮扶广元的6个县（市、区）将在当地建立广元特色农产品直营店，为广元贫困地区的优质农产品进入浙江市场搭建平台、畅通渠道。

新意十足的“爆款”茶叶

        此次茶叶博览会上，绍兴市共有17家主体、32家企业参展，不仅数量超过前两届，而且产品新意十足、爆款频出，吸引了大量客商关注。

        “这个外面是竹子？”客商潘先生一脸疑惑。“来，你尝一下！”嵊州市景鸿茶叶有限公司负责人裘李钢给客人递上一杯泡好的茶。

        裘李钢带来的小竹茶，是把制好的红茶放进一小截竹筒里，用锡箔纸密封包裹，再进行一次烘烤而成，故名“小竹茶”。“不仅有茶香，还有竹香，具有清肺化痰的功效。”因为包装特别，口感又好，去年甫一推向市场，便大受青睐，“去年卖出650公斤，今年有望突破2500公斤。”裘李钢信心满满地说。

        来自嵊州的另一款名叫“桂霏茶”的袋泡茶，同样成为展会现场的爆款。这款袋泡茶在茶叶原叶里掺了桂花，制造出复合香味，“茶叶是我们自己的，桂花则是广西、云南等地深山老林里的金桂，然后用玉米纤维的三角包进行包装，再用超声波技术进行缝合。”嵊州石壁精舍茶体验馆负责人钱赛云介绍，经过两年时间的不断调配试制，目前他们已成功开发出“桂霏茶”系列，包括桂花龙井、桂花辉白、桂花红茶等。

        为满足消费者日益多样化的需求，近年来绍兴市茶企纷纷加大研发力度，不断开发新产品。除了红茶、乌龙茶、黑茶，在此次茶博会上，绍兴市茶企还首次推出了黄茶。

International Tea Expo in Hangzhou Turns New Page  

From May 15 through 19th, 2019, Hangzhou hosted the 3rd China International Tea Expo, which attracted tens of thousands of people to attend. The expo presented the theme of “tea and world for shared development”. The expo venue measured about 70,000 square meters and provided 3,125 standard booths. Among the exhibitors were 176 key buyers from 27 countries and regions. Also held during the exposition were a string of parallel events such as forums, summits, dialogues and field studies.

The country’s leading tea producer whose productivity averages 7,550 yuan per  (15  equal one hectare), Zhejiang presented 241 exhibitors using 453 exhibition booths. It was the biggest number of exhibitors from Zhejiang over the last three expos. They displayed best quality tea products, which were essentially winners of various tea competitions at different levels. 

Moreover, the province had never seen so many tea products presented by its tea producers. The tea products varied in categories: green tea, yellow tea, red tea, black tea, white tea, as well as tea utensils and tea delicacies. At the booths, the exhibitors also organized various shows and performances. Almost each booth served as a tiny teahouse. 

One outstanding feature of the expo was the large space offered free for exhibitors from eight poverty-stricken regions in remote mountains across the country. Altogether, eighty-two tea businesses from fifty-eight counties of fourteen provinces displayed their products in this special space. One tea product from Guangyuan, Sichuan Province meant a lot to tea farmers in Anji in northern Zhejiang. In April 2018, 20 tea farmers in Huangdu, a village in Anji, offered to donate 15 million tea saplings to poverty-stricken farmers in other provinces. Four counties in three provinces were picked for sharing the 15 million tea saplings. Part of the 15 million arrived in Qingcuan, a county in Guangyuan City. With a history of 3,000 years in tea production, Guangyuan has been working with Zhejiang in boosting its tea production since 1996. The tea saplings for poverty-stricken areas in Guangyuan are only a small part of the assistance offered by Zhejiang in its continuous effort. Now Guangyuan not only operates a sales network across the country but also exports tea products to many countries across the world.

At the expo, Zhejiang presented a range of new products which reflected the efforts and progress the province’s tea industry has made over years. And some new tea products caught the eye of visitors. Shaoxing, a city in eastern Zhejiang, has 32 businesses present at the expo. One novel tea product was Bamboo Tea, a black tea product made through a complicated process. It is a product by Jinghong Tea Company based in Shengzhou. After black tealeaves are made, they are put into a short hollow bamboo piece. The bamboo is then wrapped up in tin foil and baked. That’s why it is called Bamboo Tea. The tea oozes the fragrances of tea and bamboo. In 2018, the company sold 650 kilograms of the tea and this year it hopes to sell 2,500 kilograms.

Another popular tea product at the expo was Osmanthus Teabags. It is made by a teahouse also in Shengzhou. It had taken the teahouse two years to finalize the formula. Osmanthus flowers used in the teabags are from forests in Guangxi and Yunnan in the southwest of China. Osmanthus flowers and tealeaves are wrapped up in a triangular bag made of corn fibers and sealed off with a supersonic technology. The teahouse has developed a series of osmanthus tea.

In fact, Shaoxing showed itself as a leader in developing new tea products. Another major breakthrough in their R & D endeavors is yellow tea, launched at the expo.