Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena visited the Yunnan Xiaguan Tuocha (Group) Co., Ltd., China’s premier tea enterprise integrating analysis and improvement, manufacturing and gross sales of tea in Dali in Yunnan Province on August 18.
He held detailed discussions with the Chief Govt and prime tea researchers concerning the prospects of additional strengthening the cooperation between tea analysis in Sri Lanka and Xiaguan Tuocha, which is thought for its giant manufacturing scale, glorious high quality and know-how, good model repute, full gross sales community, and worldwide repute.
The Xiaguan Tuocha model was created in 1902 and has a historical past over 110 years. The corporate’s predecessor was the Kangzang Tea Manufacturing facility based in 1941. After privatization reform in 2004 and several other generations of exhausting work, it has develop into a bunch firm with deep historic heritage, the CEO defined to the Prime Minister.
“With the theme, ‘integrity administration, high quality first’, it’s identified for high-quality tea services and products to the world”, he mentioned. The Yunnan Xiaguan Tuocha has already change knowledge and experience with Tea Analysis Middle in Thalawakele and it has expressed willingness to help analysis and improvement undertaken by tea trade in Sri Lanka.
It has a repute because the nationwide frontier tea designated manufacturing enterprise and uncooked materials reserve enterprise, the nationwide tea processing know-how analysis and improvement heart, the nationwide key main enterprise of agricultural industrialization.
The officers identified that the corporate produces greater than 200 varieties of 5 main teas, primarily Pu-erh tea and it has gained a number of worldwide awards.The merchandise are offered nationwide and are primarily offered to greater than 30 provinces and cities in China, and exported to greater than 10 international locations together with the European Union, Russia, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia. It has been listed as approved vendor in Vancouver, Canada. “Our focus is to offer you high-quality tea from Xiaguan Tuocha and we are going to lengthen help to the tea analysis and improvement in Sri Lanka,” the official assured the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister invited the Xiaguan Tuocha to ship a staff to Sri Lanka to additional discussions on cooperation in tea analysis.
State Minister Janaka Wakkumbura, Governor of Jap Province Senthil Thondaman, Yadamini Gunawardena MP and Secretary to the Prime Minister Anura Dissanyake had been additionally current on this event.
