At the 17th regular session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO held in Rabat, Morocco, "traditional Chinese tea-making techniques and related customs" declared by China have been evaluated and added to UNESCO's Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. By December 2020, China had included 42 items on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List, ranking first in the world. Among them, 34 are on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, 7 are on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding Protection, and 1 is on the list of Good Practices. This time, a new item has been added and a new record has been set, which once again reflects the important contribution of the Chinese civilization to the cultural diversity of mankind. It opens a new page for Chinese culture to go to the world and for further cultural exchanges between China and the West.

"Chinese Traditional Tea-Making Skills and Related Customs", as the project of this World Heritage application, indicates that Chinese traditional tea-making not only has its traditional skills, but also has wide distribution, rich heritage types, and historical significance of the ancient Silk Road, the Ancient Tea-Horse Road and other exchanges between the East and the West. This project not only includes 44 small projects from 15 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China, but also covers traditional tea-making techniques such as green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, black tea, yellow tea and reprocessed tea, as well as related customs such as Jingshan Tea Ceremony and tea market, making it "the largest in terms of volume" among all the applications of human intangible cultural heritage in China.

History has long proved that the Western lifestyle of large-scale consumption and focusing on material is no longer suitable for the development of human beings. Human beings need a richer spiritual life. The excellent traditional Chinese culture just meets the needs of human beings, and tea culture is an outstanding representative of it. At least 50 countries grow tea in the world, and more than 120 countries import tea from China. The fact that more than 5 billion people around the world like to drink tea is a proof of this.

The Ancient Tea-Horse Road, which can be compared with the Silk Road, the Maritime Silk Road, the Wanli Tea Road and other famous business roads, is the link between different regions, different nationalities and different cultures. It is the historical witness of the prosperity of the Chinese nation and one of the important symbols of Chinese civilization. It was the Yunnan-Tibet and Sichuan-Tibet ancient Tea-Horse roads that crossed Hengduan Mountain and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for the first time in the form of expeditions, extending westward to meet the Silk Road, forming multi-cultural interactions and exchanges, becoming one of the powerful arteries connecting ancient and modern China with the outside world, and laying the foundation for the Belt and Road cooperation among the countries along the Silk Road today.

Culture events set the stage and economy activities take the stage, which is the historical summary of China's rapid development and success in the past decades. In order to further open the door of foreign exchanges, it is of vital importance to strengthen "policy communication, infrastructure connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration and people-to-people exchanges" with countries along the Silk Road, further promote the construction of "The Belt and Road", carry out in-depth cultural exchanges, and let China's intangible cultural heritage projects spread to the world.

By showing more intangible cultural heritage projects in front of the world, people from more countries can understand China, know the profound Chinese culture, and better understand the historical origin of harmony and solidarity that China follows in its foreign exchanges, never expanding abroad or engaging in colonialism, so as to arouse people from more countries to join hands and make contributions to the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.