China's existing tea processing technology content is low, product quality is not high, low value-added products, which leads to a lack of market competitiveness of products, directly affecting the sustainable development of the industry. Drying is an important process in tea processing, using conventional electric heating, coal boiler equipment to dry agricultural products, large investment, need to consume a lot of energy, so that the cost of agricultural products to increase, and cause varying degrees of environmental pollution. The use of heat pump dry tea, can save conventional energy, avoid environmental pollution, improve product quality, change the backward production and processing methods. Therefore, China's application of heat pump drying, development prospects.