The opening ceremony of "Taobao • Features of China • Yichang Pavilion" (hereinafter referred to as "Yichang Pavilion") and the First Online Tea Culture Festival was held in Yichang City. Jiao Taiwan, the Provincial Department of Agriculture Committee member, deputy director, Wang Xingyu, the deputy secretary and some city leaders including Zou Zhengjin, Wang Guobin, Qu Peng, Yang Meiren attended the opening ceremony.
In this January, "Yichang Pavilion" has been formally put into operation on line. Up till now, more than 200 agricultural business enterprises have entered into "Yichang Pavilion", and the average daily trading volume has reached nearly 400,000 yuan. This kind of business pattern has opened up a new channel for the city\'s special agricultural products to the country and the world. Next, the Agricultural Bureau of Yichang will continue to provide coordination services for "Yichang Pavilion" operation with strict control of the quality and safety of agricultural products, to make “Yichang Pavilion" a new brand to support of the issues of agriculture, farmer and rural area. It is the time for the spring tea to go into the market. In order to develop the tea industry with the Internet thinking, the city has held the First Online Tea Culture Festival at the same time. This Online Tea Culture Festival includes opening ceremony, the electricity supplier special sharing sessions, Internet celebrity’s trip to the beautiful tea production area, large–scale parent-child tealeaves picking trip, international youth friendship tea party, tea culture forum, the second Yichang Top Ten Black tea Competition and other activities. Through online and offline activities in various forms, full publicity, promotion, showing the tea industry, tea companies and tea brand, expanding tea sales channels, the healthy and rapid development of tea industry have been promoted. (Reporter: Cao Yang; Correspondent: Liu Juan)