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Rednet moment Zhangjiajie On April 16 – (correspondent Wu Xiaocheng, Gu Lilin) recently, there is a good news from the China National Intellectual Property Administration that “Zhangjiajie Ampelopsis Tea” has been approved as a national geographical indication trademark. Zhangjiajie Ampelopsis Tea is a kind of ancient plant as medicine and food, which has the highest monomer content of dihydroflavonoids found in recent decades at home and abroad, and is known as the “king of flavonoids”.
In recent years, district committee and district government of Zhangjiajie Yongding district regard Zhangjiajie Ampelopsis Tea as leading industry of targeted poverty alleviation, rural revitalization and “the only one specialty of a county”. The district committee and district government formulate “ 5111 Plan of Yongding District Zhangjiajie Ampelopsis Tea”, introduce a series of policies of supporting the development of Zhangjiajie Ampelopsis Tea, create a regional public brand of “Zhangjiajie Ampelopsis Tea”, make the industry of Zhangjiajie Ampelopsis Tea develop rapidly. At present, the planting area of Yongding District Ampelopsis Tea has reached more than 81000 mu (including 20000 mu of wild area). There are 83 production and operation entities, such as cooperatives and family farms, specializing in Ampelopsis Tea planting, and two characteristic demonstration gardens of Ampelopsis Tea industry at the provincial level in Zhangjiajie have been built. In the past two years, the Ampelopsis Tea industry has led more than 7000 households in Yongding District out of poverty and made nearly 10,000 surplus rural labor forces into employment. Zhangjiajie Ampelopsis Tea has won the national agricultural product geographical indication protection products, certification of organic products, the gold medal of “Innovative and Healthy Tea”, the first “Hunan Good Climate products” and other brand honors. In the future, Yongding District will take “ the intellectual property construction strong area” as the starting point, vigorously implement the promotion of geographic indications and trademarks, make the brand of “Zhangjiajie Ampelopsis Tea” bigger and better and let the fragrance of Zhangjiajie Ampelopsis Tea spread all over the world. In addition, “Zhangjiajie Ampelopsis Tea”, “Zhangjiajie Black Pig” and all three trademarks are approved as national geographic indication trademarks at the same time. So far, the total number of geographical indication trademarks in Yongding District has reached 7.