Guian FTZ to build tea export base

Guian Comprehensive Bonded Zone (FTZ), located in the Guian New Area, Southwest China's Guizhou province, will soon build a tea export base to help the province's tea products go global, according to news from the FTZ on May 15.

Focusing on gathering more related market entities, making innovations in export patterns, smoothing export channels, expanding overseas markets, and further polishing local brands, the FTZ will build the tea export base into a hub of tea exhibition, sales, export and processing, and will provide policy support in trade volume subsidies, rent, and logistics.

The base is expected to export 1 billion yuan ($143.6 million) of tea products by the end of 2025. So far, two tea processing and export projects have settled in the zone. The first batch of black tea bound for Pakistan will be delivered shortly.