Thai Nguyen is honored to be allowed and entrusted to preside over the First International Tea Festival, Thai Nguyen – Viet Nam 2011 by the Prime Minister…  

On these days, the Festival is taking place with many exciting, impressive activities. The International Conference on tea is the important event which has the international meaning, the pride of all classes, ethnic people in Thai Nguyen province, where tea is considered as a special industrial plant with the famous delicious tea products in the country and to the world, known as the popular golden trademark "The Greatest Tea”.

Tea and tea products have been used for long time by humans as a drink (although the difference of method and habit), just as a precious medicine to strengthen health, make the mind cheery, prevent human from many dangerous diseases. Enjoying tea is an art (tea ceremony), but drinking tea does not need to be sophisticated, vice versa, it is very close and loved by everyone. Tea planting and processing between regions and countries are different, the difference brings different product values and effects such as: Green tea of 0^o C, green tea, Oolong tea, yellow tea, Lipton, etc. Tea is also used as the materials for processing many popular nutritious foods such as egg-tea, braised pork with tea are products that Can Tho people love, etc.

Thus it is possible to understand that if we know all the tea value and create a lot of products from tea in Viet Nam and Thai Nguyen, the future of this industrial plant will be worthy of the economic plant with the high value for peasants.  

Thai Nguyen is the training center of the high-quality human resources of the provinces and regions, including many agricultural scientists. To continue to look for great value of tea plant, learn, exchange to develop tea, process tea in the most scientific method, build the tea trademark of Viet Nam, Thai Nguyen in order to have outstanding position in the country and all over the world. These are the targets in this International Conference. Attending this conference, there are many domestic and international scientists, tea producers and consumers take care; representatives have prepared speeches carefully and we will hold a Conference bringing many practical useful things in planting, processing and consuming tea for Viet Nam in general and Thai Nguyen in particular.

Tea and tea products will be the bridge connecting us to each other, we benefit through this Conference.