Yunnan Xiaguan Tuocha Tea (Group) Co., Ltd, formerly founded as Yunnan Xiaguan Tea Factory in 1941, is one of the tea processing enterprises established relatively early in the southwest region of China, with a fairly large-scale, and the origin place of Yunnan Xiaguan Tuocha renowned both at home and abroad. The Company is also a key state-designated manufacturer of Border-sale Compressed Tea.
In 1920s, as Xiaguan become the distribution center and processing and trading center of Diancha (Yunnan Tea), merchants in Dali region started trading tea as the main commodity, and all sorts of tea processing factories emerged. In the spring of 1941, Yunnan China Tea Trade Co., Ltd and the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission together set up a joint venture named “Kangzang Tea Factory of Yunnan China Tea Co., Ltd", which was renamed "New Kangzang Tea Factory of Yunnan China Tea Trading Co., Ltd" in April, 1948. After the founding of New China, in April, 1950, the people's government took over the running of New Kangzang Tea Factory and renamed it "Xiaguan New Kangzang Tea Factory of China Tea Company Yunnan Branch", and later renamed it again to "Xiaguan Tea Factory of China Tea Company” and then " Yunnan Xiaguan Tea Factory ".
Time flies! After decades of hard working, Xiaguan Tea Factory staff has developed a workshop-style small factory into a modern refined tea processing enterprise with significant scale. In 1995, Xiaguan Tea Factory was recognized and approved as a Medium-sized Type I enterprise by the leading group and Yunnan Economic and Trade Commission who were responsible for the classification of enterprises.
With the establishment and continuous improvement of China's market economy system, in response to the requirements to establish modern enterprises with "clarified property rights, clearly-defined responsibilities, government administration separated and scientific management", Xiaguan Tea Factory first initiated the formation of Yunnan Xiaguan Tuocha Tea Co., Ltd and then the establishment of trans-regional, trans-trading Yunnan Xiaguan Tuocha Tea (Group) Co., Ltd a few years later. Now the total value of assets of the Company has reached more than a billion RMB. The Company’s product sales territory has been expanded from over 20 domestic provinces and cities to the European Union, the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and other regions. Thanks to the rich experience in tea processing accumulated in over 60 years and the development of technology, The Company has successfully advanced with the times and achieved gratifying results.
In 1990s, the Company implemented a series of technical innovation during China's 8th Five-Year Plan (1991-1995) and invested over 20 million RMB in building and rebuilding warehouses and manufacturing plants, purchasing auxiliary facility that was geared to the production, incorporating tea processing machinery that reached the internationally advanced level, and cooperating with a Yunnan university in developing and manufacturing Tuocha compressors. With all these initiatives, the Company successfully changed the backward modes of production and upgraded its infrastructure scale and technical equipment to a new level.
The Company has consistently adhered to the "Quality Comes First" policy and implementation of brand strategy, and managed to keep the competitive of its products in the market. Among the Company’s products, Yunnan Xiaguan Tuocha has won many honorable titles such as Yunnan High Quality Product (four times), State Silver Prize for Fine-Quality (three times), National Famous Tea, China’s Famous Tea Brand and one of the first Well-known Brand of Yunnan; Xiaguan Tuocha for export has won the honorable title of Excellent Quality Product from the province and ministry and the World Food Golden Crown Prize for three times; and Yunnan Xiaguan Brick Tea, Tuocha Tea Bag, Cangshan Mountain Green Tea and Gantong Tea also have won honorable titles such as Yunnan High Quality Product, China’s Famous Tea Brand, 10 European Product Quality Gold Prize, and Famous Tea of Yunnan. Over 80% of the Company’s products reach the excellent quality level. The output sale ratio of the Company’s products is above 98%.
65 years have passed since the establishment of the Company. Although 65 years is only an instant in the long history of man, the various historical periods experienced by the Company and the ups and downs, twists and turns through the arduous road of its entrepreneurship are still unforgettable. Trials and hardships during the 65 years have shaped the spirit of the Company and endowed everyone in the Company with courage and insight. It is a historical responsibility to everyone in the Company to advance with the times and seek for development based on ongoing innovation. The new generation in the Company will certainly take on the great responsibility to carry on the past and open a way for future. By taking the advantage of the State-owned Enterprise Reform and public auction of state-owned net assets in 2004, the Company realized its own reorganization. Against this background, the Company has equipped itself with new strategies, system and management to seize opportunities in the market and rise to the challenges by conforming to the trend of the times to finally realize the strengthening of the industry of brilliant Xiaguan Tuocha and bring it a brighter and prosperous future in the mainstream of the market economy.
