Tea harvesting season is upon us, and in Sanjiang County, that will most certainly be a big thing. Only five years ago, tea was a rare commodity in Sanjiang, but now miles and miles of mountain roads weave through the tidy, pleasant, green-ribbed mountainsides full of tea plantations.
Sanjiang County now can boast a development of over 6,000 hectares (almost 15,000 acres) of tea plantations, producing almost two thousand tons (1,880,000 kg) of dried tea leaves. Unfortunately, Sanjiang still sells their products within China to provinces like Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanghai, Hunan, and others, meaning they are selling to middle men who then resale. That is the making of a great oppurtunity for counties like Sanjiang.
Guangxi Province has many tea plantations, including the Zhaoping tea plantations recently pictured by People's Daily. Most of them are selling to producers in the east who will then raise the price for sale internationally. Companies in the east have the most developed customer base, the best English, and the financial resources to create a highly profitable situation for themselves.
Foreign companies could pay less and rural tea plantations could make more. That is a mutually beneficial situation. Counties like Sanjiang spread throughout Guangxi Province are more than open to selling direct to foreign companies, but they first need to know of a demand for their products. New Frontier China is positioned to facilitate the development of tea and provide communication between business partners that can help overcome the barriers to mutually beneficial trade.
