{"id":65410,"date":"2017-04-21T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T23:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=65410"},"modified":"2017-04-21T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T23:04:07","slug":"tea-road-takes-a-sri-lankan-to-chinese-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/04\/21\/tea-road-takes-a-sri-lankan-to-chinese-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea road&#8217; takes a Sri Lankan to Chinese home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"info\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span class=\"info_l\">By Yang Yang Courtesy chinadaily.com.cn\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"Content\">Anura Banda has been in China for over 20 years but he will never forget the fragrant aroma of his first sip of Chinese tea.&#8221;Chinese tea is very famous in Sri Lanka. The first Chinese tea I ever had was green tea. The aroma was very pleasant. Although it was tea, it tasted like something totally different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After learning more about Chinese tea, Anura founded Beijing Heavenly Trade Co Ltd to do tea business between China and Sri Lanka in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>However, Anura faced great challenges due to different business environments and perspectives on high-end tea in China and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"16195985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/bizchina\/img\/attachement\/jpg\/site1\/20170421\/eca86bd9ddb41a638e720a.jpg\" alt=\"'Tea road' takes a Sri Lankan to Chinese home\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Anura Banda, CEO of Beijing Heavenly Trade Co Ltd, points at a globe showing the &#8216;Tea Road&#8217; from Sri Lanka to China at his office in Beijing, China, on April 19, 2017. [Photo by Li Xiupeng \/ chinadaily.com.cn]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chinese people love leave tea and consider them high-end tea products. On the other hand, Sri Lankan people crush tea leaves and package them into tea bags for office people in the high-end market,&#8221; Anura said.<\/p>\n<p>When Anura tried to sell top-class Sri Lankan tea to Chinese customers, he struggled to find any buyers. It took him about a year to sell the first shipment of 480 boxes of Sri Lankan tea in China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yang Yang Courtesy chinadaily.com.cn\u00a0 Anura Banda has been in China for over 20 years but he will never forget the fragrant aroma of his first sip of Chinese tea.&#8221;Chinese tea is very famous in Sri Lanka. The first Chinese tea I ever had was green tea. The aroma was very pleasant. Although it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}