A glimpse of tea industry in Sanjiang Dong autonomous county, Guangxi

陈小将

An aerial drone photo taken on March 21, 2025 shows workers picking tea leaves at a tea farm in Sanjiang Dong autonomous county, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [Photo/Xinhua]

After the Spring Festival, nearly 500 tea companies, professional cooperatives, and family farms in Sanjiang are seizing the golden season for harvesting spring tea, working to promote the deep processing of tea production, benefiting over 300,000 people related to the tea industry.

Sanjiang has a tea plantation area of 215,000 mu (about 14,333 hectares), with a total annual output value of 8.7 billion yuan (about $1.2 billion).