In 1950, Mr. Feng Shaoqiu, known as the ‘Father of Chinese Black Tea’, served as the first factory director. The new techniques he established at the Hankou Tea Factory, such as "meticulous extraction and elaborate processing" and "lifting and blending", advanced the processing of Chinese congou black tea to a new historical stage. To this day, these methods remain the main principles for processing Chinese congou black tea. It can be said that the brand of the ‘Hankou Tea Factory’ embodies the craftsmanship spirit of the first generation of Chinese tea masters represented by Mr. Feng Shaoqiu and the glorious development history of Chinese black tea.

The Phoenix black brick tea is a special tea product commissioned by TWININGS, the prestigious British tea company with a long-standing history, to commemorate its 275th anniversary in 1981. Through the British Foreign Office, TWININGS entrusted the Zhaoliqiao Tea Factory in Hubei Province, China, to produce this brick tea, making it a significant witness to the friendship between China and the United Kingdom.

In 1891, Crown Prince Nicholas of Russia, who later became Tsar Nicholas II, visited Hankou. This was a significant event in the modern diplomatic history between China and Russia. When the Russian Crown Prince arrived in Hankou for the visit,