Strategies for Developing Quality Tea Industry as Urged by Recently Announced Reform Directive

To stimulate innovation and further progress of the nation’s industry, the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has recently stipulated a general directive. It provides clear guidance to build new quality industries for the country. For the tea industry in Fujian, this article proposes a strategy to help usher in a new chapter in the existing plan that emphasizes tea culture, business, and science-tech simultaneously. It encompasses four approaches that intimately integrate technological and managerial innovations, tea and digitized economies, education/training and talent cultivation, and cultural activities and scientific pursuance in the development. Means to implement the proposed strategy are presented.