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Farmers pick tea leaves at an old tea forest area of Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 14, 2023. (Xinhua/Hu Chao/Lu Lei)
RIYADH, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er, southwest China, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on Sunday.
At its extended 45th session ongoing here in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee examined the site nominated by China and added it to the list as a cultural property, making it China's 57th World Heritage site.
The decision heralds the great vitality that lasts today of the old tea forests and related cultural landscape in Jingmai Mountain, Lancang Lahu Autonomous County of southwestern Yunnan Province, one of the regions that practiced the earliest use of tea resources and had a significant influence on the tea culture of the world.
A villager promotes tea via livestreaming at an old tea forest area of Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 14, 2023. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)
Locals sing and dance to celebrate the inclusion of the Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er , southwest China's Yunnan Province on the World Heritage Site list, Sept. 17, 2023. (Xinhua/Hu Chao/ Tang Rufeng)