Green leaves turn into golden leaves, and the mellow aroma of Fujian tea floats overseas

On August 23rd, a batch of tea worth over 1 million yuan exported by Fujian Guangfu Tea Industry Co., Ltd. was inspected and qualified by Ningde Customs officers under Fuzhou Customs, and will soon be shipped overseas.

As one of the main tea planting areas in Fujian Province, Ningde's black tea produced as early as 1915 has been exported to the European and American markets and has won the prestigious title of Gold Award at the Panama International Exposition. In recent years, riding on the wave of "Chinese tea" going abroad and combining with daily tea drinking habits abroad, Ningde's exported black tea has become the main commodity for daily consumption by Southeast Asian, especially European people. In the first half of 2026, Ningde City exported tea products worth 14.961 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.8%.

As a benchmark enterprise for Ningde tea exports, Fujian Guangfu Tea Industry Co., Ltd. is one of the top 100 Chinese tea industry enterprises that integrates planting, research and development, processing, sales, and export. Its tea exports mainly target the high-end market of the European Union. The European Union and other countries and regions have successively introduced strict tea inspection standards, with numerous and frequently revised pesticide residue limit standards. How to effectively deal with technical trade barriers has gradually become a "must answer" for Ningde tea to go overseas.

Thank you for the targeted guidance provided by the customs. The customs officers guided us to strengthen the quality control of the planting process and improve the quality control system based on the destination country of our tea enterprise's exports, "said Xie Shuifeng, General Manager of Fujian Guangfu Tea Industry Co., Ltd." At the same time, Ningde Customs has opened up a 'green channel' for our tea enterprise's exports, implemented convenient measures such as' cloud issuance 'and appointment inspection, and saved nearly 40% of our tea export time

As a traditional industry in Ningde and even Fujian Province, tea is closely related to the income source of the largest number of farmers in terms of industrial economy. We have implemented a paperless process for the registration of tea planting bases, achieving the goal of 'more data running, less enterprise running errands'. At the same time, we will leverage the advantages of platforms such as Ningde Bonded Logistics Center (B-type) to continuously help Ningde City export tea products to foreign markets faster and better. ”Zhang Yonghao, the head of the Enterprise Management Department of Ningde Customs, said. (Li Jinqi/Text)