晚清民國時期杭州的茶葉外銷

As the open port and foreign trade distributing center of tea leaves in the southeast tea area in China in the late Qing and Republic of China, Hangzhou had a prosperous tea trade, which expanded both internally and externally. Tea leaves were sold to European and American countries from Hangzhou, where many foreign tea shops were opened. Located in the Qiantang River basin, Hangzhou had an advanced shipping system, which made it the only way for tea leaves from Anhui and Jiangxi to get to the outside world. The foreign trade of Hangzhou tea leaves enhanced the tea plantation and processing industry development and encouraged various service industries related to tea such as transportation, storage, carrying, customs clearance, insurance, etc. But the tea foreign trade in Hangzhou was inevitably affected by the situation of internal and external environment and policies, so its development track was also a typical model of China’s foreign trade development.