Abstract: With the growing China’s tea industry in recent years, but due to the imperfect system of the tea industry and other factors, China’s tea industry failed to completely get rid of the safety hazards from pesticide residues, heavy metals, microorganisms and biological toxins, resulting in the imbalance between the tea export as well as tea export value and the contributions of Chinese tea to world tea market. This paper described the quality hazard problems that face China’s tea industry with particular emphasis on the eco-environment tea plantation, tea plantation management, tea processing, storage and transportation. Several solutions to the current existing problems were proposed in this paper by elaborating tea quality and safety legal system, the standard system, hazard assessment and risk early warning system, macroscopic system of quality control system, the regulatory mechanisms and personnel training, the construction of the mechanisms of tea quality and safety. This review provided some theoretical basis for the sustainable development of China’s tea industry in the future.

Key words: tea industry, quality, risk factors, measure