英語(yǔ)翻譯
The impacts of food safety standards on China's tea exports
China,the world's tea cradle,has experienced an accelerated growth in tea production since the late 1990s.The production of tea increased from 593 thousand tons in 1996 to more than 1.3 million tons in 2009.Its average annual growth rate accelerated from 3.6% between 1996 and 2000,to 5.4% between 2001 and 2005 and to nearly 8% between 2006 and 2009.Indeed,China has been the largest tea producer in the world since the late 1990s.Its share of global tea production increased from 22% in 1996 to 35% in 2009 .