Tongmu Huahan Tea Garden is located in Tongmu Town, Zhongfang County of Huaihua City. The climate herein is warm and humid throughout the year, with abundant sunshine. The average temperature in summer is about two degrees lower than that in the urban area. The location is obviously advantageous. It is only two kilometers away from Huaihua-Guizhou 209 National Highway, 30 kilometers from Huaihua downtown, 15 kilometers from the Chinese County seat, 0.5 kilometers from the Tongmu exit of Baotou-Maoming Expressway, and 10 kilometers from the Zhongfang exit of Shaoyang-Huaihua Expressway. The convenient transportation network provides guarantee for the development of tea gardens. There are many scenic spots around the tea garden, such as Jingping Ancient Village, Tongmu Grape Valley, Wulongxi Water Conservancy Scenic Area, Kanglong Nature Reserve, Qiancheng Ancient City (Furong Tower), Hongjiang Ancient Commercial City, Zhijiang International Peace City, etc. At present, the golden tourist route of Huaihua City (Great Xiangxi Tourist Route) is from Zhijiang to Hongjiang. Huahan Tea Garden is the most favored place for this route, and it occupies an important position for leisure tourism in the suburbs of Huaihua City.

Tea Garden is the most-preferred tourist attraction around Huaihua City that focuses on tea production and processing. It is now the National 3A Tourist Attraction, the National Youth Science Education Base, the Five-Star Rural Tourism Spot in Hunan Province, and a Five-Star Leisure Agricultural Manor in Hunan Province. Founded in 1970, the scenic spot integrates tea planting, production and sales, ecological sightseeing tourism, leisure agriculture, popular science education, agricultural culture experience, etc. The tea garden is now a member of Hunan Tea Association, and has successively won the Silver Award of China International Tea Expo, the Gold Award of Hunan Science and Technology Innovation, the leading enterprise of agricultural industrialization in Huaihua City, the star enterprise of science and technology and other honors and awards. “Snow Bamboo Shoot Tea” was named “Hunan Famous Tea”, and “Millennium Huahan” was named “Hunan Famous Trademark”. Tea Garden is a national agricultural science popularization demonstration base for young people. It has successively become a science popularization practice teaching base for students of Huaihua No. 3 Middle School, No. 4 Middle School, Huaihua Hongyu Primary School, Huaihua Jinxi Primary School, Huaihua Kindergarten, Huaihua Jinding School, Zhongfang No. 1 Middle School, Zhongxing School and other schools. The tea garden acclaims folk customs, profound cultural revolution relics, beautiful tea garden scenery, simple architectural communities, unique pavilions, etc., which are warmly embraced by tourists around. 

(Translated by Tian Xia)