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Seasonal workers harvest Longjing (Dragon Well) tea at a tea plantation in the Meijiawu village, outside Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, 13 April 2017. China is the world's biggest tea producer, selling many varieties of tea leaves such as green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, and yellow tea. The Chinese tea industry employs around 80 million people as farmers, sales people and pickers. Tea can be sold from around 80 RMB (around 11 euros) to over 4,000 RMB (around 525 euro) per kilogram. In 2016 China produced 2.43 million tons of tea. (Photo by Roman Pilipey/EPA)
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