Producers

The most influential pu'er factory; its standard recipes such as 7542 and 7572 are reference points for the whole market.

Dali factory best known for tuocha (bowl-shaped nests) and strong, often smoky sheng cakes such as 8653.

State factory in Kunming where wodui (the shou pu'er process) was developed; known for shou bricks such as 7581.

Menghai pu'er company best known for Lao Banzhang cakes; runs an anti-counterfeit lookup for its wrappers.

Pu'er brand focused on old-tree single-origin teas, with published suggested retail prices.

State pu'er factory founded in 1975 in Pu'er (now Ning'er) County. Usually given as the '4' in mark numbers; two companies claim it as their predecessor.

1950s state factory for Lincang's growing black-tea area. It later split into county and prefecture factories known for Yinhao and Jianshen tuocha; private firms now use its names.

Birthplace of Dianhong black tea, founded 1939 as the Shunning Experimental Tea Factory under Feng Shaoqiu. It became the Dianhong Group in 1996 and entered reorganisation in 2022.

Yunnan's provincial state tea trading company, founded 1938. It held export rights, ran the mark-number system, sold the big factories' pu'er under the 中茶 label and later the Jixing brand.

Nanjian county tea factory founded by a former Xiaguan director, known for the Tulin Fenghuang (Phoenix) tuocha; the line runs through a 1991 state company to Yunnan Tulin Tea.

State tea trading house founded in 1949, now COFCO's China Tea Co. Its 中茶 'eight-中' mark wrapped pu'er from Kunming, Menghai and Xiaguan for decades and is still in use.

Xishuangbanna pu'er group grown from a 1998 tea house; its 1999 Yichang Hao Yiwu cakes marked the arrival of private makers alongside the state factories.

Kunming-area pu'er company founded in 1999 by two retired Menghai Tea Factory managers, Zou Bingliang and Lu Guoling; best known for its Lao Tong Zhi cakes.

Lincang pu'er company formed in 1999 when Rong Jiasheng bought the state Shuangjiang tea factory; Mengku/Rongshi labels and an early Bingdao buyer.

Pu'er brand launched in 2006 by Chen Haibiao, who began in Yiwu; now Guangzhou-based and built around high-end blended cakes.

Own pu'er label of the retailer Yunnan Sourcing (Kunming; founder Scott Wilson). Single-village cakes pressed every year since 2009.

Own label of the online retailer white2tea, started 2012 by Paul Murray: blended pu'er under invented names, storage in Guangzhou.

Small family factory at Jingmai Dazhai (Lancang) run by Yubai and William Osmont, selling through its own retail arm Farmerleaf.

Menghai (Mengzhe) factory that began as the tea unit of the state Liming Farm in 1964; makes pu'er under the Bajiaoting brand, now within the Yunnan Nongken group.

Called Wuyishan's largest tea factory by Jiemian and China Daily. Founded 2001 by businessman He Yixin; took over the city's state rock-tea corporation and tea institute in 2003.

Huang-family Wuyi yancha house named after Ruiquan Rock above Shuiliandong. The family claims roots to 1644 and a trade name from 1819; the modern company dates from about 2000.

State-owned (COFCO / China Tea) oolong blender and exporter in Xiamen, owner of the 海堤 (Haidi, 'Haiti') brand from 1960 and of the 1974 letter codes for export oolong.

Fuzhou-based COFCO/China Tea exporter (1950) of jasmine, white and oolong tea, owner of the Butterfly (蝴蝶) brand. Not the owner of 海堤, which is the Xiamen company's brand.

Wartime state tea enterprise (1939-1942) at Chishi, Chong'an, run by Zhang Tianfu, with branches in Fuding and Fu'an; its site is the root of Wuyishan's state tea farm and institute.

State tea institute of Chong'an/Wuyishan (1960-2003). It developed and first sold clonal 'commercial' Dahongpao; Wuyi Star took it over in 2003.

Workshop of Wang Shunming, named a national representative bearer of the Wuyi yancha (Dahongpao) craft in the sixth batch (March 2025), and former head of Wuyishan's state rock-tea corporation.

National representative bearer of the Wuyi yancha (Dahongpao) craft (third batch, 2009), senior tea evaluator and author on Wuyi yancha.

National representative bearer of the Wuyi yancha (Dahongpao) craft (fourth batch, 2012); led the propagation and first commercial sale of clonal Dahongpao at the Wuyishan tea institute.

Tongmu (Miaowan) black-tea company of Jiang Yuanxun; its team created Jin Jun Mei in 2005. Leading Lapsang souchong producer inside the Wuyishan nature reserve.

Fuding's best-known white tea brand house, founded 1992 by Lin Zhenchuan; flagship aged line 晒白金; large contract-farming base and nationwide shop network.

Fuding white tea company founded 2000 under the Lüxueya brand, named after Taimu Mountain's historic tea; Taimu garden base and an aged white tea focus.

Fuding's state tea factory (1950–1990s) under the China Tea system: exported Bailin Gongfu black tea and white teas; wound up after 1993.

State-era tea plant in Bailin, Fuding: made Bailin Gongfu black tea for export, then white teas, and developed new-craft white tea (新工艺白茶) in 1968.

Fuding white tea group at Diantou with a 4,600-mu estate and large white tea cellar; traced from a 2002 trading firm, joint-stock since 2017.

Zhenghe white and Gongfu black tea maker at Dongan, Tieshan town; founded 1993 as Xinlong Tea Factory, led by heritage bearer Yang Feng.

Zhenghe white tea maker at Daoxiang with roots in a 1958 state tea farm; 政名 brand; head Yu Bugui is a provincial bearer of the Zhenghe craft.

Successor of the 1952 state Anxi Tea Factory, maker of Fengshan-brand Tieguanyin; reorganised in bankruptcy in 2016-2017.

Shenzhen-based tea retail chain of an Anxi Tieguanyin family, with over 3,700 shops; Hong Kong-listed since 2025, chaired by a national heritage bearer.

Xiamen-based tea retail group founded in 2001, best known for Anxi Tieguanyin, with estates across several tea regions.

Taiwan tea retailer founded as a Tainan shop by Li Rui-ho; the present company was established in 1975 and began trading on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 1999.

Mainland Chinese tea retail group founded in Fujian in 1993 by Ten Ren's founder Li Rui-ho; Hong Kong-listed since 2011, with about 1,350 outlets.

Wholesale tea merchant and refiner on Chongqing North Road in Taipei's Dadaocheng, founded in 1883 and still run by the Lin family.

Dadaocheng tea house of the Wang family, from Anxi via Xiamen (1890) to Taipei (1907); keeps a charcoal-roasting room from the Japanese era.

Tea house claiming descent from an 1862 Tainan shop; relaunched in Taipei in 2002 with red canisters and its own charcoal roasting style.

Owner of Taiwan's former Japanese tea factories, including the Daxi and Sun Moon Lake (Yuchi) works; listed since 1962 and now partly a tea-tourism business.

Farmers' association of Lugu, Nantou, which has run the Dong Ding oolong competition since 1976, now twice a year with thousands of entries.

Lugu growers' cooperative that runs its own Dong Ding oolong contests, separate from the Farmers' Association, and fought packaging fakes in 2014.

Chinese tea producer behind the Lancang Ancient Tea brand and recurring numbered Pu Erh lines including 0081 and 0085.

Menghai-based Pu Erh producer behind the Fuhai brand and recurring numbered raw and ripe tea families.

Anhua dark-tea producer in Xiaoyan, Hunan, with a factory history dating to 1939 and a continuing role in compressed-tea production.

Hunan producer specialising in Fu brick tea under the Xiangyi brand, with a long history of supplying northwestern China.

Guangxi producer of Liu Bao tea under the Three Cranes brand, continuing the export-oriented Wuzhou factory established in 1953.

Hangzhou producer centred on Longjing tea, connecting a former state tea farm with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences' Tea Research Institute and China Tea.

Anhui tea producer closely associated with Huangshan Maofeng, carrying the Xie Yuda and Xie Zheng'an names.

Beijing tea producer and retailer especially associated with jasmine tea scented from Fujian green-tea bases.

Fuzhou jasmine-tea producer whose operations connect tea gardens, jasmine cultivation, scenting and the Chunlun brand.