{"id":34775,"date":"2013-11-14T11:48:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T11:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=00b8a3b00e3cb09a458255e2ba3103cf"},"modified":"2013-11-14T11:48:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T11:48:31","slug":"news-story-british-trade-mission-to-sell-tea-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=34775","title":{"rendered":"News story: British trade mission to sell tea to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is in China flying the flag for British food.<\/p>\n<p>He is with a delegation of 35 British food and drink businesses, tapping into the Chinese market at the Food and Hotel China exhibition in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>The British companies span the food and drinks market, from tea and beers to cheese, smoked salmon, desserts and confectionary.<br \/>\nThe food and drink industry contributed a staggering \u00a396.1 billion to the UK economy last year, employing nearly four million people. It\u2019s the UK\u2019s largest manufacturing sector, creating more than 8,500 new products a year.<\/p>\n<p>The UK is continuing to cash in on its global reputation for quality food and drink, increasing exports by nearly 50% in the past decade, to the value of \u00a318.2 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Owen Paterson with wine and beer producers in China\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/18602\/960x640-Owen-meets-British-wine-and-beer-exporters-in-China.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Owen Paterson meets British wine and beer companies looking to export to China<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">British food is renowned across the world for quality and our smoked salmon, pork, chocolate and Scotch whisky are already popular here in<br \/>\nChina. I\u2019m in Shanghai to bring some more great British products to Chinese buyers and help get more of British food and drink onto your supermarket shelves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For more photographs of the visit go to <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1bG26t5\">Defra\u2019s Faceboook page<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>View the latest <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukti.gov.uk\/export\/sectors\/fooddrink.html\">business opportunities for the food &amp; drink sector<\/a> on UK Trade &amp; Investment\u2019s (UKTI) website. Find out more about <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukti.gov.uk\/export\/howwehelp\/businessopportunityalerts.html\">UKTI\u2019s business opportunities service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owen Paterson is in Shanghai with British exporters to help get more British food and drink onto their supermarket shelves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}