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| 2005 International Tea Convention with Tea & Coffee Exhibition (China) |
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| Wednesday,September 28,2005 Posted: 00:00 BJT(1600 GMT) |
Welcome to attend the 2005 International Tea Convention with Tea & Coffee Exhibition (Hangzhou, China) to be held in China's major tea producing base - Hangzhou on 28-30 September 2005. It is co-hosted by International Tea Committee (ITC), China Chamber of Commerce of Import / Export of Foodstuffs, Native Produce & Animal By-products (CFNA), China International Tea Cultural Institute (CITCI), China Tea Marketing Association (CTMA), Tea Science Society of China (CTSS) and Hangzhou Municipality Government.
As known to all, originated in China, tea has a history of 4500 years. With China's reform and opening up to the outside world and its accession to WTO, China's tea production and processing industry has developed by leaps and bounds. What worth mentioning, in recent year, high grade tea, organic tea developed rapidly, propelling China's tea industry's further development. While domestic consumption has raised noticeably, the export volume has also reached 280000 tons ranking world's third in terms of tea export.
At the same time, as Chinese people's living standard keeps rising, and the young generation picked up the habit of drinking black tea and coffee, China's import of high-grade black tea and coffee is increasing rapidly every year. In 2004, the import volume hit USD 20 million, up by 150% over year 2002, and became the most rapidly expanding consumption market for black tea and coffee.
The world tea industry also noticed that the world tea and tea drink industry are facing great challenges from other drinks as well as the stricter and stricter residue limits of consumption countries. China would like to cooperate with trade partners, producing countries and importing countries to enhance the competitiveness of tea and tea drink in the world, and to provide more safe tea for the tea consumers in the world.
To this end, four of China's largest nation-wide tea organizations focusing respectively on tea's production, marketing, research and tea culture, namely China Chamber of Import/Export of Tea affiliated to CFNA, CITCI, CTMA and CTSS together with International Tea Committee decided to co-host the first International Tea Convention with Tea & Coffee Exhibition in Hangzhou, China. This is the first international tea convention with exhibition in China. Chinese tea importers and exporters, tea producers, processing companies, major wholesalers and retailers, tea culture institutes, tea research institutes and labs as well as well-known tea experts and specialists will present at the convention and exhibit their products. Government officials, associations, producers, processors, sellers and buyers of tea production and consumption countries in the world will also attend the convention and the exhibition.
The convention includes 2 days meetings and 3 days of exhibition, attendees are also invited to visit China's largest organic tea garden which also ranks among the tops in the world. Attendees will also visit tea processing factories, labs, the International Tea Culture Museum, and meet with new exporters and importers, Chinese tea growers, wholesalers and retailers. The exhibition covers tea, tea drink, tea sets, coffee, coffee ware, tea packaging materials and technologies and processing machinery as well as tea culture and tea publications. At the same time, tea ceremony will be performed. The Convention will also work out a precise and scientific measure to select and award the International Well-known Tea Brand.
Sincerely welcome you to attend the Convention to meet the world tea business circles, to exhibit and promote your company, your products, to sell or buy at the exhibition.
For more details, please visit www.int-tea.com |
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