The Old Tea Forests in Pu'er,Yunnan Province, gained the World Heritage Site status at the ongoing 45th session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO, (become)China's first World Heritage Site related to tea.
The newly named heritage site (consist) of five well-preserved old tea forests, stand 1,250 to 1,500 meters above the sea level; three protective barrier forests; and nine ancient villages.
The cultural landscape was (joint) created by the ancestors of the Blang people and the native Dai people.
The local people created ideal light conditions for tea trees, thereby producing quality organic tea leavesthe use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
The cultural landscape represents the ecological ethics and (wise)that can inspire sustainable development in the world today, said Chen Yaohua, director of Peking University's World Heritage Research Center, who (lead) studies on the site for the past 12 years. Li Qun, another director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, commented that China would (strength)efforts to better protect the heritage site so that climate change would (solve) to ensure that the lasting, outstanding and universal values of the old tea forests were passed from generation to generation. "I (be) international exchanges and cooperation that help themselves to take more responsibilities in protecting the site," Li also said.
