GUIYANG, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Guizhou Province saw robust growth in tea production and export this year, according to data released at the recently concluded Guizhou Tea Industry Development Conference.
In the first five months of this year, Guizhou's tea output was 168,800 tonnes, with an output value of more than 31.9 billion yuan (about 4.5 billion U.S. dollars), up 7.5 percent and 11.77 percent respectively from the same period last year.
From January to April, tea worth 85.23 million yuan was exported from Guizhou, up 90.7 percent year on year.
Guizhou specified the development goal of the tea industry in 2020 at the conference, including putting into effect stricter standards in plantation and quality control, as well as increasing the mechanization rate.
Guizhou was home to over 466,666 hectares of tea gardens by the end of 2019, ranking first in China. In 2019, Guizhou's total tea output was 401,000 tonnes, with an output value of 45.12 billion yuan, up 10.5 percent and 14.2 percent, respectively from the same period of the previous year. Among them, about 4,008.8 tonnes of tea was exported, with Myanmar, Russia, Germany, the United States, Japan and Morocco being the main export markets.
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