Labourers harvest tea buds at a tea plantation high up in the Min Mountains in south Gansu in west China.


Women pick up the first tender tea buds during the first tea harvest of the year that takes place during Qingming Festival in the Min Mountains of north Sichuan and southern Gansu.


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