Wangcang Tea

Wangcang Tea

　　Wangcang has a long history of tea cultivation and production, and is one of the 33 "southern tea" base counties in Sichuan Province. It currently has 20,000 mu of tea plantations, 46 primary processing factories, 3 refined processing plants, with an annual tea output of 270 tons, generating profits and taxes of 1.6 million yuan. There are 42 large and small business operators engaged in the industry, having created 18 tea brands, among which "Gaoyang Biya," "Taoyuan Maofeng," and "Lizhou Xueya" have successively won international and domestic awards. In 2002, 1,000 mu of tea plantations in Nongjian, Hualong, and Gaoyang towns were designated by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Agriculture as the "first batch of pollution-free tea production bases."

Since last year, the county Party committee and government have prioritized tea as a pillar industry for enriching the people and strengthening the county. They have put forward an overall development strategy focusing on the promotion of pollution-free, green, and organic tea, driven by institutional innovation, emphasizing base development, strengthening leading enterprises, expanding scale, vigorously implementing a brand-name strategy, accelerating the industrialization of tea, and enhancing market competitiveness. The plan is to renovate 20,000 mu of low-yield tea plantations and establish 80,000 mu of high-quality tea plantations by 2007, bringing the total tea plantation area in the county to 100,000 mu, with a total tea output of 5,000 tons and an output value of 200–250 million yuan, including 1,000 tons of premium tea with an output value exceeding 100 million yuan.