1,300 tons of Chinese tea leaves head for Uzbekistan

(ECNS) -- A special freight train loaded with 1,300 tons of Sichuan tea leaves worth $4.1 billion departed Chengdu International Railway Port in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, heading to Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Monday.

This is the second freight train for tea export since the route was launched on April 9.

The green tea leaves were grown in a 1,760,000 square meter planting base to European standard.

A workshop for primary processing 80,000 kilograms of fresh tea leaves and another for refining 40,000 kilograms of dried tea leaves will ensure the quality of the tea.