I was to leave for Kuala Lumpur on 28th July at 8 pm but my nephew George Zeng came to pick me up at 9.30 am to take me to buy Chinese tea. I was taken to Fangcun tea town about 30 -45 minutes from Guangzhou city centre. I was shock to see Fangcun Avenue the main road where shops at both side sell tea, out of 10 shops 7 are tea shops. In addition there are few big complex that have a few hundred shops selling tea and tea utensils A-Z ( teapot,pitcher,lid saucer,tea cups, cup saucers, tea receptacle, pincer, tea scraper,tea scraper, tea scoop,towel wraps,tea tower,crucible, stove & kettle, tea tray) make in wood, ceramic ,bamboo etc with different design and pattern etc.
Fangcun in the early 1950 is agriculture with tea estate etc Some how it started to slowly from a wholesalers market place for agriculture products and also produce tea. Fangcun then expand into wholesaler market place. By 1980 onward row and row of shops selling all kind of tea grown from all over China The other industry like packing, printing and manufacturing tea untensils, tea making accessories, and packing materials boxes, containers etc added. By 1990 it was establish a as famous tea town for retailing and wholesale of tea from whole of China. There are a few tea complexes in Fangcun where buyers can get every things from A-Z.
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