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Tea culture, industry and science

During a visit to the Yanzike ecological tea garden in Wuyishan on 22 March 2021, Xi Jinping called for an integrated approach to tea culture, the tea industry and tea science; green development, stronger brand awareness, improved marketing and distribution, and a solid industrial basis for rural revitalisation. This is an unofficial English rendering of the original Chinese.

Tea culture honours work and keeps skills alive; the industry connects a leaf’s value with rural livelihoods; science supports ecological growing and quality. This is a tea-focused interpretation of public ideas, not an official recommendation or authorisation of this project.

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From China, shared across the world

In his congratulatory letter for the first International Tea Day on 21 May 2020, Xi Jinping wrote: “Tea originated in China and is popular around the world.” The letter addressed sustainable global tea development, cultural exchange and a wider appreciation of tea. English quotations here are unofficial translations.

Tea-centred exchange is more than a product export. It can communicate hospitality, respect for work and gratitude for people close to us. Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English are a starting point for that conversation.

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Tea-making skills as a living heritage

Traditional Chinese tea-processing techniques and associated social practices were inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List on 29 November 2022. Xinhua reported Xi Jinping’s instruction on safeguarding intangible heritage on 12 December 2022, including a call to tell the stories of China’s fine traditional culture and help it reach the world. The report does not specify the instruction’s exact date; the English is an unofficial rendering.

Heritage begins with real makers: their names, stories and skills, understood and continued by younger generations. Garden visits, conversations and authentic records give cultural meaning a concrete form.

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