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The Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain gained the World Heritage Site status, 【小题1】 (become) China’s 57th entry to the list and the first World Heritage Site related to tea. The newly named heritage site, located in Pu’er, Yunnan Province, 【小题2】 (consist) of five large scale old tea forests, three protective barrier forests and nine ancient villages 【小题3】 are mainly inhabited by Blang and Dai ethnic groups. According to the research, about 10% of the tea trees on the mountain are at 【小题4】 (little) 100 years old, with the oldest dating back more than 300 years.
The cultural landscape was 【小题5】 (joint) created by the ancestors of the Blang people, who immigrated to the Jingmai Mountain in the 10th century AD and later discovered wild tea trees and the native Dai people. 【小题6】 the basis of long standing practices, local people developed the understory growing technique, which involves allowing small and sufficiently shade tolerant trees 【小题7】 (grow) under the taller trees. They created ideal light conditions for growing tea trees, while preventing insect pests through a well-preserved forest ecosystem, thereby producing quality organic tea 【小题8】 (leaf) without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee noted the cultural landscape is 【小题9】 outstanding example of a human interaction with a challenging environment. It represents the ecological principles and wisdom which can inspire the 【小题10】 (sustain) development in the world today.