International Tea Day 2024 | China Tea and AAU’s Joint-Cooperation in Tea Science and Technology, Boosting Tea Industry Development of New Times

International Tea Day of May 21 is the day belongs to every tea people worldwide. This year 2024, on this special day, China Tea Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as "China Tea") and Anhui Agricultural University (AAU) jointly signed a Strategic Framework Cooperation Agreement in Beijing. The two parties agree to carry out all-round industry-university-research cooperation in talent cultivation, academic exchanges, scientific research platform construction, and scientific and technological achievement transformation. The two parties mutually agree to jointly expedite the cultivation of new productive forces in tea industry and boost the high-quality development of China's tea industry.

AAU, as the partner of China Tea in this agreement, is a high-level comprehensive university specialized in Agroforestry biology sciences. Its tea major is of the National First-class Major Project, the first batch of National Featured Professional of colleges and universities, and the Key National Subject. It is the industry-university-research education base with strong comprehensive strength in China.

Technological innovation is a key variable to boost the generation and development of new productive forces. Under the guidance of “Combining the Tea Industry, Tea Technology and Tea Culture”, China Tea, always persisting the technology as the key to the industry development, is endeavoring the industry-university-research combination. The company constantly attaches importance to "new" aspects, including emphasizing the "intellectual content", "green content", and "gold content" during the development of the tea industry.

China Tea: Integrate innovative elements of tea science and technology development

Innovation platform is a base gathering resources and is an "accelerator" to promote the coupling and interaction of various innovative elements. In recent years, China Tea has been actively establishing innovation platforms in tea science and technology, strengthening the integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and advancing the high-quality development of the tea industry to a new level.

First, building our own scientific and technological innovation platform at a high level. Second, investing more on scientific and technological innovation fields. Third, cultivating in the development of the industry-university-research combination.

China Tea: form the cohesion of talents in tea science and technology R&D

New productive forces is about innovation, and talents are one of the driving force of innovation. China Tea owns a large number of famous tea experts in history and at present. The company is supporting and developing some provincial-level tea master studios.

China Tea: facilitate the landing of tea science and technology achievements transformation

First, establish the industry production standards. Second, tackle key technological problem. Projects include pu’er tea storage technology, white tea processing, liupao tea R&D, etc.

In the future, China Tea will continue to act as the practitioner and promoter. Progressing forward towards "new", the company will buildup strength in tea technology and spur new impetus for the development of tea industry.

Sources: China Tea website, May23, 2024