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Dr. ChenPing from Tea Science Department gave french lectures in Switzerland

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   On the 28th November 2014, Dr. Chen Ping, associate professor of Tea Science Department,was invited to University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland Valais (HES-SO) in Switzerland, to attend afrench academic conference and give french lectures onchinese tea culture and tea science.
    The conference was on a forum of "Diet polyphenols from tea /wine /chocolate /coffee" (Les polyphénols dans le thé, vin, chocolat et café).French speaking experts and scholars were invited from different countries, especially from Europeand America, who joined together to communicate on dietary intake of polyphenols, beneficial effects of dietary polyphenols on human health, etc.Meanwhile, different sensory evaluation class like tea, wine, and chocolate tasting were given to people, with professional evaluation knowledge.
     After a whole day of scientific discussion and academic activities, Dr. Chen went to Sierre with other western wine and coffee experts to an ancient castle, whose history could be dated back to more than thousand years ago. Here, Swiss tea lovers were waiting to listen to Dr. Chen’s lecture. Several old friends from Swiss-China Friendship Association and the Swiss Wine Museum also came from far away to participate in the castle for the chinese tea activities.
     Dr. Chen Ping earlier has been passed years in France for her doctor degree and a post-doctoral work. Since working in Zhejiang University, she mainly does research on tea sensory evaluation and pharmacological function of tea components. This time, she was invited to give a speech on "Chinese Tea" (Thé du Chine) with tea origin, tea culture, tea tasting, and pharmacological mechanisms of tea. The lecture was warmly welcomed with lively discussion.After that, tea taste time was organized in the castle with oolong tea ceremony and green tea, black tea, dark tea sensory evaluation.Such an tasting activity was led by three tea masters: Trinh from AUX5T of Switzerland; Shao Shuhong from Tea Science Department, who stays in HES-SO for her exchange experiments; Li Ping from iTEA of Shanghai. Along with French explanation guide by Dr. Chen, tea time in castle was brought into a lovely atmosphere.
    In addition to the conference and lecture, Dr. Chen has also made some advance for the cooperative projects between Swiss HES-SOand Zhejiang University. A further collaborative research will be done with a six months student exchange and funding supports.