Shaoxing is a famous historical and cultural city dubbed as a land of water, bridges, Wine, tea and celebrities, and it is famous for its wine culture and tea culture. The Yuchacun Brand steamed green tea and Dragon well tea with the characteristics of good shape, green color, rich fragrance and fresh and mellow taste is a dark horse among yellow wine and light textile products, enjoying high reputation at home and abroad and leads the international tea market.

Shaoxing Yuchacun co., Ltd is a Sino-Japanese joint venture company uder the jurisdiction of Shaoxing county Agriculture Bureau, The company is 16km to the southeast of urban area of Shaoxing of Zhejiang. Surrounded by mountains, with a quiet environment, it has charming landscapes and convenient traffic conditions. Currently the company has 350 official staff and workers, of which 45 are university or technical school graduates and 15 are technical personnel with intermediate or senior qualifications. It has 12 automatic production lines of steamed green tea and 6 production lines of grinding tea with annual output of dry tea of 3500 tons and a production and making workshop of new-type Dragon Well tea with annual production and processing capacity of 10 tons. Meanwhile the company has constructed two cold storages of 500 tons and has set up a branch company in Yixing City of Jiangsu Province to increase export capacity. In 2002, the company has passed ISO9001:2000certification and realized systematic management from cultivation management of tea garden to making and packaging and export. In the first half of 2006, the company passed QS certification.

An industrialization pattern integration trade, industry and agriculture and an industrial chain integrating production, supply and marketing have come into being. The company has heen appraised as an advanced provincial, municipal and county enterprise for self-export, nationwide Double-Excellence enterprise for foreign investment, municipal-level ecological tea garden and pollution-free tea garden for several time s and was appraised as a provincial-level modern agricultural demonstration area in 2000. In 2001, the company was named as a provincial-level leading agricultural enterprise by the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province and a leading agricultural and sideline products processing enterprise of Zhejiang Province. The products were acknowledged as the first lots of organic agricultural products of Zhejiang Province by the Department of Agriculture of Zhejiang Procince in 2002, and it was appraised as a “Production Base of Organic Food” by the State Ministry of Agriculture in 2004. Meanwhile, the company has set up cooperative relations with 20000 households of peasants, and increased revenue of over 40 million yuan for neighboring peasants.