Forum on reviving ancient tea route held in Fujian
- By Wu Jin
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E-mail China.org.cn, October 29, 2019
As an old saying goes, "All roads lead to Rome", and so did China's tea routes, though with many diversions.
Among them, there was a famous one known as the "Tea Route of Thousand Miles". It started from Mt. Wuyi, home to the world-recognized famous Da Hong Pao Tea in Fujian province and spread via Ulan Bator, Mongolia and across deserts to Kyakhta, a trading hub and border crossing between China and Russia.
Passing through the northern neighbor's huge territory and cities such as Novosibirsk, Moscow and St. Petersburg, the tea finally found its way to many corners of the European continent.
The route, extending more than 13,000 kilometers, replaced the ancient Silk Road as a new point of barter run by the businesspeople from Shanxi province since the 17th century.
However, following the strife and war that engulfed China during the early and middle part of the last century, the trading route eventually fell into disuse.
Nevertheless, a three-day international forum on its revival opened in Nanping, Fujian province, on Oct. 26. Keynote speakers from the China Tourism Academy, the Russian Experts Commission under the President and the Embassy of Mongolia in Beijing, unanimously reiterated the importance of reviving the tea route in terms of overall trade, development and cultural and people-to-people exchanges.
Reviewing its critical role in building ties between China and Russia, Eremin Vladimir Lvovich, a Russian expert with the commission, is looking forward to reinvigorating and expanding the cooperation between the two countries based on the old tea route in future, according to a letter he sent to be read out at the forum.
The event, jointly hosted by Nanping government and China Tourism News, is part of a program established by China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism in response to the Belt and Road Initiative seeking to revive ancient trade routes.
The "Tea Route of Thousand Miles" was inscribed in the "World Heritage Tentative List in China" last March.
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