State Grid staff inspect operation of electrical equipment for Yufeng Laoying tea farmers cooperative in Wuxi County, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on November 20, 2024. (Photo by Liu Peixin)
BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Staff of China's state-owned power grid operator State Grid on November 20 visited Wuxi County, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality to learn about the winter electricity needs of Yufeng Laoying tea farmers cooperative and inspect operation of its electrical equipment.
Laoying tea is an organic and vegan Chinese herb tea, and Laoying tea tree is a characteristic economic species of Wuxi. There are 5,000-odd Laoying tea trees over a century old and ten dated over a millennium in the county.
To meet electricity demands of local tea producers, State Grid Chongqing Electric Power Company expanded the capacity of a public transformer substation from 100 kVA to 120 kVA and installed a separate 700-meter 0.4 kV low-voltage line. The increased electricity supply enabled the use of machines for tea frying. Compared to manual tea frying, machine-based tea frying increased tea production by 20-plus times.
The company also introduced a streamlined grid connection application program for tea producers, allowing them to apply for power grid connection without the need to visit offline business halls and obtain electricity without going through relevant approval processes and installing electric meters by themselves, thus reducing the time required for electricity access by at least 50 percent.
With stable electricity, the Yufeng Laoying tea farmers cooperative is able to process more than 10,000 kilograms of tea annually and generate an annual output value of more than two million yuan (about 275,608 U.S. dollars).
(Edited by Su Dan with Xinhua Silk Road, sudan@xinhua.org)
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