A local tea grower displays some of the fresh tea leaves that are produced in Lingyang township.  [Photo/WeChat account: quzhoufb]

Lingyang township – located in Quzhou, East China's Zhejiang province – is a special place that boasts a high altitude and a unique humid and foggy microclimate that has a reservoir area with fertile soil, coupled with top-grade surface water that is fresh air all year round.

It is said that all these properties have combined to produce the wonderful, high-quality tea that is produced in Lingyang.

The tea-planting area in Lingyang township now covers more than 533 hectares, equivalent to about 20 percent of the total area for tea cultivation in Qujiang district. The main tea products include green tea, black tea and fragrant tea.  Lingyang has four tea factories and more than 10 family-scale workshops, with an annual output of 500 tons of fresh tea leaves and 100 tons of dried tea – yielding  an output value of 80 million yuan ($12.6 million) per annum.