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Huangshan city produces the most tea of all China's cities, now with 760,000 mus of tea plantations.It manufactures18,000 tons of tea and 56,000 tons of special and excellent tea, with a total value of 320 million yuan, which respectively constitutes 1/20 Of all tea gardens of the country, and 42% of the total area, 40% of all output, 30% of all value of output of Anhui Province.

It is the main producing area for "Qimen black tea" and "Tunxi green tea", the major export varieties of our country. And its products Huangshan Maofeng, Taiping Houkui, Dinggu Dafang and Qimen black tea are listed as ten national traditional teas, Xin'anyuan Yinhao, Huangshan Green Peony and other new special and excellent teas are popular. Now, it has 22,000 mus of licensed organic tea gardens, 31,000 mus of organic food tea gardens and 130,000 mus of environmentally harmless tea gardens.

The organic tea area is 15% of the whole country, so it is the biggest organic tea producer. In addition, it has 300,000 mus of oil-tea camellia, a oil tree whose seed can be used as food oil, which is a special resource and produces 20,000 ton of oil seed.

The general ideas about the city's development of tea industry are, concentrating on the development of special and famous teas, export teas and tourism teas, meanwhile, cultivating natural and organic drinks, operating according to industrialization pattern made up of bases and leading enterprises, constantly increasing tea attached value and speeding up tea's synthetic exploitation. The city earnestly welcomes guests and merchants to expand Huangshan tea's reputation, So that Huangshan tea becomes famous all over the world.

Guests and merchants are encouraged to invest in the production of the following 4 teas:

1. The production of organic tea drinks. The project is in Xiuning County, which is situated at the source of Qiantangjiang River. The water general hardness is 60 milligrams per liter or so, PH value is weak alkaline, an ideal healthy drinking water, capable of being used for producing various drinks. The county is rich in tea in high quality and at Iow price, the origin of "Tunxi green tea". Mei tea export is 10% of the country. It has the most area of licensed organic tea, reputed as "China's hometown of organic tea". It is planned to build a organic tea drink producing line of over annual 30,000 tons.

2. Organic tea standardized processing. The city's organic tea gardens reach 72,000 taus, but the standardized process capability is very limited. An enterprise managing 30,000 mus of organic tea base and processing over 1,000 tons of organic tea needs to be set up.

3. National zinc tea processing. The project is in Yixian County, where 6,000 mus of tea garden provides tea containing zinc 40.8 mgs per kg of good taste and fragrance and endurance. It is planned to develop high quality and small package tea, and form a producing capability of 300 tons of natural zinc tea annually.

4. Tea oil processing. Its unsaturated fatty acid reaches over 90% and the cholesterol is very Iow, thus a green food oil possessing very high health care value. Its by -product tea seed cake is of great use. The project is in Qimen County, where over 40,000 mus of oil tea trees provide 400 tons of tea seed annually. An oil tea series factory capable of producing 2000 tons of finished tea oil annually is planned to be built.