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.

The special freight train loaded with 1,300 tons of Sichuan tea leaves worth $4.1 billion. (Photo: China News Service/Bai Guibin)

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.