Chengmen Bay Tea

Chengmen Bay Tea

　　Sanzhou Town is a mountainous township primarily focused on high-value specialty agriculture such as refined tea production. In line with the county’s “3255” regional development plan, it set a development goal of “one mu of tea per person,” building upon its previously scattered tea cultivation. The town sought technical support from the County Distance Education Office and established a distance education practice base—the Sanzhou Township Eco-Tea Demonstration Park. The eco-tea demonstration park is located in areas such as Chengmen Bay, Lingtou Zhu, and Sanyou within the Shiling region, covering a total of 2,200 mu of tea plantations and 12,000 mu of forest land. Among these, Chengmen Bay and Sanyou were developed by converting low-yield forests into tea fields, while Lingtou Zhu was developed through the conversion of farmland back to forest.

　　 The park implements four key systems: optimized tea varieties, ecological growing environments, standardized production management, and regulated operational methods. The township has uniformly planned and designed the area’s roads, irrigation and drainage systems, buffer zones, tea variety selection, planting density, and seedling management. The ultimate goal is to create a green, pollution-free eco-tea production demonstration base that embodies the vision of “tea within forests, forests within tea,” where “from afar it looks like a forest, up close it’s a tea garden”—a vibrant, lush, and fragrant haven teeming with birdsong and greenery.