Hangzhou Shifeng Tea Co., Ltd. was founded in 1985, the original registered place in Hangzhou City, Hupao Road, is the demarcation of the West Lake Longjing tea core production area, and adhere to the fresh leaf purchase scope is strictly limited to the West Lake Longjing tea protection area, take the "small but fine" route, the output and scale has been very stable. As early as 1991, with the approval of the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (now the Ministry of Commerce), the "Lion" brand West Lake Longjing tea produced by it was identified as "China's famous tea". The company's founder, Zhou Jiande, is an all-round West Lake Longjing tea expert, one of the first tea appraisers in Zhejiang Province to obtain the senior tea appraiser qualification certificate, has been engaged in the tea industry for 40 years, and is one of the producers of the national West Lake Longjing-like tea. "Lion" brand West Lake Longjing has a pollution-free production base of more than 2,000 acres and more than 200 stores, which is one of the leading enterprises of West Lake Longjing tea in Hangzhou. "Lion" brand West Lake Longjing tea has become the exclusive tea of Zhejiang businessmen, the designated tea of Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, the only designated gift tea of the Venice Art Biennale, and the designated tea of the China International Tea Culture Research Association.
 
In 2014, in a lawsuit with Zhejiang Tea Company over the exclusive right to use a trademark, Hangzhou Shifeng Tea Co., Ltd. produced a tea purchase contract signed with tea farmers in the origin of Shifeng Mountain and a joint support statement from more than a dozen tea farmers and tea merchants in the Shifeng Mountain area, indicating that their raw materials came from the core production area of West Lake. The overall positioning of the "Lion" brand is relatively high-end, and its first-class Longjing 50g cans are priced at 106 yuan, and nitrogen is filled into the package to keep the tea fresh to the greatest extent. The price of the traditional paper pack 250g of two pre-rain tea is lower, in terms of ration tea, the price of 324 yuan of the second-grade West Lake Longjing is more recommended, the price of Ming Qian tea ranges from 600 yuan to 5000 yuan, the price is improved according to the quality of tea, 585 yuan of the first level of the Ming Dynasty and 880 yuan of the Ming Dynasty special grade are good choices.