Bai Cha Yuan (Hundred Tea Garden)

Bai Cha Yuan

Bai Cha Yuan is a national AAA-level tourist attraction.

The Xiushui County Tea Ecological Science and Technology Park, also known as "Bai Cha Yuan," is a modern comprehensive park integrating scientific research, production, processing, trade, sightseeing, and leisure, with a total investment of 400 million yuan. It features a first floor (scientific research building), two gardens (a variety garden and an experimental garden with over 350 domestic and international tea varieties), three factories (the Tea Research Institute’s refined tea factory, Ninghong Health Tea Factory, and Shencha Qingqianliu Tea Factory), and four zones (scientific research and office zone, production and processing zone, trade and sightseeing zone, leisure and entertainment zone). The park has 2,000 acres of new and old ecological tea gardens, with an annual tea production capacity of 3,000 tons. It serves as a distribution hub for tea trade in nine counties across Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi provinces, and as a development platform for the tea industry in the Ninghong tea region. On July 11, 2005, Chen Zongmao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a leading figure in Chinese tea research, inscribed a dedication for the Xiushui Tea Ecological Science and Technology Park and encouraged the tea industry in Xiushui to achieve new glories. In 2007, the institute was awarded the title of "Jiangxi Provincial Civilized Unit," and in 2001, it was recognized as a "Provincial-level Agricultural Science and Technology Park."

The Tea Research Institute’s Tea Science and Ecological Park was completed in 2005. Located 3 kilometers south of Xiushui County town, it sits by the Nangu Bridge in the southern part of the city, bordered by Ninghong Avenue to the north and surrounded by mountains on the east, west, and south. The scenic area includes tea hills, a tea plant biodiversity gene bank, a tea museum, a four-star hotel, a leisure tea culture square, a waterscape lake, pavilions, an osmanthus garden, and an observation tower. The tea museum is a "textbook" chronicling the research, inheritance, and promotion of tea by tea experts throughout history. It houses precious materials contributed by Xiushui’s tea practitioners over the years to the development and promotion of the tea industry and culture, as well as valuable samples of Xiushui’s "Ninghong" tea from 1942 to the present. It showcases dozens of famous tea varieties from Xiushui, such as "Ninghong," "Shuangjing," and "Tip of the Tongue," highlighting modern tea enthusiasts’ love and interpretation of tea culture. The waterscape lake has crystal-clear water, reflecting the surrounding courtyards, offering a serene environment for leisure fishing and relaxation. The layered tea hills are covered in lush greenery, and the biodiversity gene bank contains 356 domestic and international tea plant varieties. From the top of the observation tower, visitors can enjoy a panoramic view of the county town, take in the beautiful scenery of the Xiushui River, and admire the natural landscape of the tea hills. It is an agri-tourism destination, hailed as the "garden within the garden" of Xiushui’s backyard.