Fuyang Quhao Tea

Fuyang Quhao Tea

Fuyang Quhao Tea is a protected geographical indication product.

　　   The tea industry in Fuyang has developed into one of the country’s 100 key tea-producing counties (cities). The Fuyang municipal government proposed the development of distinctive, high-quality teas and implemented branded production strategies. Relevant departments began researching and developing Quhao Tea. Led by senior agronomist Fang Qianyong and forest farm director Mao Jiaming, they worked day and night, overcoming repeated failures without giving up. Finally, in 1996, they successfully revived the ancient Quhao tea, which had been lost for a thousand years, bringing back its delicate fragrance and re-establishing its former glory. Overseas visitors, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, as well as guests who have visited Fuyang, all speak highly of the revitalized Quhao Tea. With its curled shape, bright green liquor, tender and clear green leaves, fresh and sweet taste, and long-lasting, elegant aroma, Quhao Tea has won several prestigious awards, including “Ningbo Agricultural Famous-Brand Product,” “Zhejiang Province Famous Tea Certificate,” “Zhejiang Province Class I Famous Tea,” “China Premium Famous Tea,”

　　    Gold Award, the 2004 “China Green Cup” Gold Award, and the “International Famous Tea Gold Award.”

　　   The outstanding quality of Fuyang Quhao Tea is closely related to the local climate, the natural environment of its production bases, organic cultivation techniques, and its unique processing methods. The clonal, multi-downy premium fresh leaves are shaped into their signature curled form, presenting a glossy green color with visible fine hairs. The use of large amounts of organic fertilizers such as duck manure and rapeseed cake, along with three-dimensional planting techniques, drum fixation, and drying primarily through baking, contribute to its fresh, sweet taste with a lingering aftertaste and a pure, enduring fragrance. Moreover, Fuyang enjoys a mild climate and abundant rainfall. The sandy yellow soil, developed from volcanic and granite rocks, combined with widespread mountain ponds, reservoirs, and rich vegetation, gives Quhao Tea its comprehensive characteristics of a premium-quality tea.

　　   Fuyang Quhao Tea has been registered under the “Xuedoushan” brand and has been approved with the “Fuyang Quhao Series Standards.” Based on the original Fuyang Quhao Production Consortium, Zhejiang Province’s second tea professional cooperative, the “Fuyang Xuedoushan Famous Tea Production and Sales Cooperative,” was established. It has thoroughly implemented the “Five Unifications” strategic approach — unified branding, unified standards, unified packaging, unified pricing, and unified supervision and management — thereby solidifying the foundation for “ensuring quality, expanding production and sales, reducing costs, and increasing benefits.” The renowned Quhao Tea is popular in domestic markets such as Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Ningbo, and has also been exported across the seas to Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, earning acclaim both at home and abroad.