Tea and trade ties

The Telegraph, Feb 23, 2018

Calcutta: Dali, a picturesque prefecture in China's southwestern Yunnan province, came calling on Thursday with a 22-member delegation. This is the second Chinese trade delegation to visit Calcutta in 2018 after representatives of 30 companies attended the state government's global business summit in January.
Chen Jian, secretary of the Communist Party of China's committee of Dali prefecture, made a strong pitch for the city of eternal spring, 338km from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan. Kunming is two and half hours by air from Calcutta.
Dali has the ideal climate to produce tobacco, walnut, livestock, bio medicine, high mountain green tea, yam, speciality fruits and flowers, and silkworm and mulberry," Jian pointed out. He also highlighted Dali's high tourist inflow.
The delegation had representation from tea, mineral water, walnut, tourism and tie-and-dye industries as well as from Dali University.
"India produces only black tea. China has six kinds of tea," said Chu Jiuyun, general manager of Yunnan Xiaguan Tuocha Company which produces pu'er tea, a variety of fermented tea typical to Yunnan. "It is great for reducing blood pressure and sugar."
"China is the highest producer of tea in the world. We produce half their volume. India exports over eight million kg of tea to China but import of Chinese green tea is insignificant. The two countries need to work out a preferential trade agreement and India could lower import duties on high value green tea to make it accessible to us," said Prabhat K. Bezboruah, chairman, Tea Board of India.
Though the flights from Calcutta to Kunming have high occupancy, they are full of traders, not tourists, Fu Dong Yin, chairman of Dali Tourism Distribution Center told Metro. Though 70 per cent fliers from China are tourists they know little about India. "President Xi Jinping's Agra visit last year raised Chinese traffic to Taj Mahal," he said.

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