Nanking, July 29.
As part of its scheme to revive the Chinese tea industry, the Ministry of Industries has ordered its testing bureaux to raise the standard quality of Chinese tea for export to foreign countries.
Special efforts will be made to prevent the -adulteration of tea by unscrupulous merchants. Both black and green tea for export will not be allowed to contain more, than 85 per cent. of water, while the admixture of other foreign ingredients should not exceed 7 per cent.
Regarding the request of the Kiangst provincial authorities that the Government take steps to arrange the barter of Chinese tea for Russian oil, the Ministry has instructed the Foreign Trade Bureau to discuss the matter with Soviet trade representatives.
'The Ministry has' also received a proposal from the Hupeh provincial government suggesting the creation of a state monopoly on tea, it being held that a state monopoly will give the Government a free hand to work out the necessary plans for reviving the tea industry.
Both this "proposal and suggested barter with Russia are now under the consideration of the Ministry, which will submit its opinion to the National Economic Council as soon as a full study has been made -of the questions.—Reuter.
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