14th Yunnan Pu'er tea expo opens in Kunming

The 14th China Yunnan Pu'er Tea Expo kicked off in Kunming, Yunnan province on April 26, with a participation of 346 tea companies.

Covering 21,000 square meters at Kunming International Convention and Exhibition Center, the tea expo brought in the 2018 top ten tea enterprises across China.

The expo is a gallery of refined tea leaves, with prices ranging from hundreds to thousands of yuan per kilogram. Of these, Pu’er tea specialties, such as the Mansong royal tea and the tea from Bindao Village, were sold at a maximum price of around 40,000 yuan/kg. 

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The tea expo aims to bring together tea products from various localities, showcasing Yunnan’s tea industry and encouraging tea trade and consumption.

Yunnan is the cradle of tea trees, with a 2,000-year history in tea growing. As a key industry, tea has been an income source for locals. Moreover, the tea-induced trade in Yunnan gave rise to the ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road that extended all the way to South Asia. 

Reporting by Zhang Tong (Yunnan Net); trans-editing by Wang Shixue