STORY: Ceylon black tea's journey from Sri Lanka to China
SHOOTING DATE: July 24, 2024
DATELINE: July 25, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:32
LOCATION: Colombo/KUNMING, China
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the tea company
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): CHAMARA UDUGAMA, Managing director of Tea Talk, Sri Lanka
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): MENG RENHE, Visitor
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): HUANG CHENGJING, Visitor

STORYLINE:

Tea Talk, a Sri Lankan tea company, is attending the ongoing 8th China-South Asia Expo

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): CHAMARA UDUGAMA, Managing director of Tea Talk, Sri Lanka
"I'm Chamara Udugama from Tea Talk. We are a tea grower, tea manufacturer and tea export company. As a tea manufacturer, I've been doing it for the last 24 years. My first overseas exhibition was in Kunming, almost 12 years ago. I have very fond memories of Kunming and the people of China. We have brought pure Ceylon tea and spices that we grew and manufactured in Sri Lanka. So, we have many varieties of tea. There are flavored teas and tea bags. So it's a blend of many varieties of tea that the Chinese customers will like. The specialty of the products is that they come from our own plantation. They're manufactured in our own factory. The packages, exports and the final production are done in our own factory. So it is pure from the farm to the end."

SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): MENG RENHE, Visitor
"I think this tea tastes very similar to Yunnan black tea grown in Fengqing County. It's aromatic and sweet."

SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): HUANG CHENGJING, Visitor
"It tastes good. This one is stronger, and this one is lighter."

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