Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

The Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences is a comprehensive tea scientific research institution in China, located in the West Lake Scenic Area of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. It was approved for preparatory establishment by the Science and Technology Planning Commission of the State Council in 1956 and was officially inaugurated on September 1, 1958. In June 2001, it was additionally designated as the "Zhejiang Tea Research Institute." The Institute is mainly engaged in research and services in the fields of basic and applied basic science of tea, scientific and technological industrial development, tea quality and safety testing, industrial economics, organic tea certification, tea industry vocational skills training, and academic journal editing, while also extensively carrying out domestic and international cooperation and exchanges and high-level talent training. The Institute is the supporting institution for the construction of the National Tea Industry Technology System and the affiliated institution of the China Tea Society. It has master's and doctoral programs and a postdoctoral workstation. It has established national and provincial/ministerial-level innovation platforms such as the National Tea Industry Engineering Technology Research Center, the National Tea Germplasm Resource Nursery, the National Tea Tree Improvement Center, the Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding of Special Economic Animals and Plants of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Key Laboratory of Tea Quality and Safety of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Tea Processing, and the Zhejiang Provincial Tea Industry Science and Technology Innovation Service Platform. The Institute has 9 business departments, including the Tea Tree Resources and Improvement Research Center (National Tea Tree Improvement Center), the Tea Tree Planting Engineering Research Center, the Tea Processing Engineering Research Center, the Tea Quality Standards and Testing Technology Research Center (Tea Quality Supervision and Inspection Testing Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), the Tea Quality Certification Development Research Center (Hangzhou Zhongnong Quality Certification Center), the Tea Industry Economics and Information Research Center, the Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Research Center, the Tea Industry Vocational Skills Training Center, and the Shengzhou Comprehensive Tea Experimental Base, as well as 5 functional departments, including the Office (Party Committee Office), the Personnel Department, the Science and Technology Department (Achievement Transformation Department), the Finance Department, and the Infrastructure and Logistics Management Department. The Institute currently has 173 on-the-job employees, including 150 professional and technical personnel. There is 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 national outstanding agricultural research talent, 4 provincial and ministerial-level experts, 28 Zhejiang Province "151 Talent" recipients, and 99 experts with associate senior titles or above. Over the past sixty years, the Institute has always kept in mind its mission as a national team for agricultural research and has continuously improved its scientific research innovation capacity and scientific and technological support level. It has undertaken more than 1,100 scientific research projects of various types, won 121 awards, including 15 national science and technology achievement awards; edited and published more than 100 works of various types and published nearly 4,000 papers, including nearly 500 indexed by SCI. It has achieved a series of remarkable results in scientific and technological innovation, industrial development, and serving agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, and has made its due contribution to promoting the healthy development of China's tea industry. Through the unremitting efforts of several generations of members of the Tea Research Institute, the Institute has now become a national tea science and technology research and development center with the strongest comprehensive strength in China. Entering the new era, the Institute closely focuses on the overall requirements of "facing the world's agricultural science and technology frontier, facing major national needs, and facing the main battlefield of modern agricultural construction" and the construction goals of "two first-class" and "overall leapfrogging," emancipates the mind, bravely scales new heights, and makes new and greater contributions to enhancing the scientific and technological content and core competitiveness of the tea industry and providing scientific and technological support for the development of the tea industry.