China's traditional tea-making was added on Tuesday to the intangible cultural heritage list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Green tea production techniques (Mengshan tea traditional production techniques) and dark tea production techniques (Nanlubian tea production techniques) in Ya'an City, Sichuan Province are included in such "Traditional tea processing techniques and associated social practices in China".
China now has 43 items on the intangible cultural heritage list, continuing to be the most enlisted country in the world.