STORY: South Asia Tea Festival held at China-South Asia Expo
DATELINE: Aug. 19, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:53
LOCATION: KUNMING, China
CATEGORY: SOCIETY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the tea festival
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): JINJANGA, President of Sri Lanka-China Association for Economic, Educational and Cultural Exchange and Cooperation
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): SARAH BIKRAM RANA, Executive Director of Nepal Trade and Export Promotion Center
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): MA NUO, Sri Lankan Ceylon Black Tea expert
5. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): TAO GUOXIANG, President of Yunnan Ethnic Tea Culture Research Association

STORYLINE:

The first South Asia Tea Festival opened Thursday at the seventh China-South Asia Exposition in Kunming, the capital city of southwest China's Yunnan Province.

Through the tea festival, tea merchants from South Asia promote tea products and tea culture to professional buyers and consumers, to explore chances of cooperation and common development.

SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): JINJANGA, President of Sri Lanka-China Association for Economic, Educational and Cultural Exchange and Cooperation
"South Asian countries are all good friends. It is an honor to exchange tea culture at the China-South Asia Expo, and also to learn a lot of Yunnan tea."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): SARAH BIKRAM RANA, Executive Director of Nepal Trade and Export Promotion Center
"If we look at the history, our ancestors, they had imported the tea plants from China and started planting those plants in different altitudes."

Participants had a chance to try the freshly brewed Pu'er tea from Yunnan on-site.

SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): MA NUO, Sri Lankan Ceylon Black Tea expert
"Yunnan tea has a good aftertaste and aroma, and overall, Yunnan tea is excellent."

SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): TAO GUOXIANG, President of Yunnan Ethnic Tea Culture Research Association
"South Asian tea culture and Chinese tea culture are historically connected. Today at the China-South Asia Expo, we communicate on the same stage. This is an innovation of the expo. We have a lot of good tea in South Asia, a lot of high-quality resources and technology worth learning from. I think it is a very good thing that they want to come to Yunnan, China to explore the market."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kunming, China.
(XHTV)