China (Shenzhen) International Autumn Tea Industry Expo 2026Dates, Registration & Visitor Guide

What is China (Shenzhen) International Autumn Tea Industry Expo?

The Shenzhen International Tea Expo, run by Shenzhen-based Huajuchen with the city's Tea Culture Promotion Association, is where the Chinese tea trade meets South China's buyers and tea drinkers. It began in 2008 and now runs twice a year at the Futian Convention & Exhibition Center; the autumn edition in December is the bigger year-end show, and the organizer counts both editions in one series (the December 2024 show was the 30th, December 2025 the 32nd). Huajuchen runs tea fairs in about 25 Chinese cities, and Shenzhen is its flagship. In 2026 the city's commerce bureau named the autumn show one of Shenzhen's brand exhibitions for 2023–2025.

The autumn fair fills around 75,000 square metres with about 3,700 booths and 2,000+ exhibitors, according to the organizer. Almost every Chinese tea type is there: Yunnan pu'er, Fujian white tea from Fuding, Wuyi rock tea, Anhua and Guangxi dark teas, Chaozhou Phoenix dancong oolong, Guizhou green tea and Yingde black tea, alongside tangerine-peel pu'er and aged-tea dealers. Producing regions come as government pavilions: in 2024 these included Chaozhou, Nanping (Wuyi), Zunyi, Anhua and Wuyuan. Much of the rest of the floor is teaware, from Jingdezhen porcelain and Yixing zisha teapots made by named potters to tea furniture, packaging and machinery, with a dedicated teaware design exhibition. Exhibitors from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Korea, Japan and Nepal took part in 2025.

In practice it works as both a trade fair and a huge public tasting. Tea-shop owners, tea-house operators, gift buyers and distributors come to meet factories and set up agency deals; ordinary Shenzhen residents come to taste freely and buy tea and teapots for the New Year and Spring Festival. Local guides in 2024 described tickets as free.

The side programme mixes trade and culture: the Zhongcha Cup tea-king competition awards, tea-art contests, a tea book fair, aged-tea tastings and, in 2025, a Chaozhou gongfu tea conference and a food-and-medicine conference alongside seven linked exhibitions. For foreigners in Shenzhen, it is an easy way into Chinese tea: you can taste dozens of teas side by side, meet producers from the source regions, and compare prices for teaware without a trip to Yunnan or Fujian.