Yangloudong is a hometown of green brick
tea in China. Stimulated first by strong need to tea in broad market of border areas and Russia during the period of Kangxi and Qianlong in Qing Dynasty, later the source of tea forced to transfer during the period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom,
Shanxi merchants came to Yangloudong to purchase tea in the two periods, which advanced the exploiting and utilizing of the local resources of tea and pushed the formation and development of Yangloudong Tea Area. The rising of the
handicraft industry of tea in Yangloudong deeply effected the economy and society of the local and round region. In the meantime, Shanxi merchants formed their own characteristics of management in the economic activity over 200 years. A series of change in their management had also taken place with the changes of the times: Shanxi merchants transformed from the merchants of monopolizing purchase to the masters of enterprises, that is to say, from the commercial capital to the industrial capital. Especially in modern times, due to expanding needs of tea market, the
formation of management in tea firms of Shanxi
Merchants gradually changed from small
workshop to capitalist handicraft workshop on a great scale and trended to tea manufacture with modern machines.
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