Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Two days ago, Cheng Fushou received information from an Uzbek customer confirming the receipt of the cargo. “The customer was very happy,” he said. According to him, this is the first special train launched to deliver tea from the Chinese tea-producing base Huangshan to Tashkent, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Cheng Fushou, a tea maker, is now the CEO of Huangshan Best Organic Tea Co., an organic tea company. Ltd., which is based in Huangshan City, eastern China’s Anhui Province. “Now the company specializes in the export of tea. Our products are distributed in more than 20 countries and regions in Central Asia, North Africa and the Middle East,” he said.

Huangshan City is a famous Chinese region for the production of high-end brands of tea and the main tea-producing region of Anhui province, which annually accounts for one third of the production in the province. Anhui tea leaf and 14 percent. tea export throughout the country. In the first seven months of 2021, the export volume of tea produced in Huangshan amounted to RMB 910 million (about USD 141 million) in value terms, up 4.2 percent. against the indicator of the same period last year.

The first railway special flight from Huangshan to Tashkent was launched at the end of August this year, it delivered 570 tons of green tea from Huangshan Best Organic Tea to the capital of Uzbekistan, having covered more than 5,500 km for more than ten days.

According to Cheng Fushou, their products were first delivered from Huangshan to Hefei, the administrative center of Anhui province, and from there were sent by a special train to Tashkent.

“Against the background of a sharp jump in prices for transportation by sea, this overland logistics corridor provided us with an alternative route for export,” said Cheng Fushou, adding that his company is preparing a new batch of 15 standard containers with green tea for shipment to Uzbekistan along this route. 

Industry experts point out, among other things, that the opening of the new railway route will favor the export of Chinese tea under the Belt and Road.