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Anhui Tea-Garden Area by City: The 2019 Land-Survey Data

Updated November 3, 2026

English chart of Anhui city tea-garden areas from the 2019 land survey

Original essay date: 2022-07-15

Historical data note: this article uses the 31 December 2019 land-survey reference date and the source’s 2022 city compilation, not the latest tea-garden area.

Use the survey date, not the date you happen to read it

Anhui is associated with teas such as Keemun black tea, Huangshan Mao Feng, Taiping Houkui, Lu’an Gua Pian and Huoshan Huang Ya. The fame of those names, however, does not tell us how tea-garden land is distributed across the province.

The source article uses the Third National Land Survey. Its reference date is 31 December 2019. The provincial bulletin is dated 13 January 2022, and the source essay was published in July 2022. Those are historical land-use figures, not a claim about Anhui’s current planted area or this year’s harvest.

The provincial total and the units

The provincial bulletin reports tea gardens covering 153,600 hectares, with a rounded parallel figure of 2.3041 million mu. In the original Chinese presentation, those are 15.36 wan hectares and 230.41 wan mu. One wan means ten thousand; one hectare equals fifteen mu.

The published hectare and mu totals are independently rounded, so converting one rounded figure should not be expected to recreate every final digit of the other. Keep the original units and precision visible when comparing reports.

The city figures compiled in the original essay

The following city values are transcribed from the source author’s compilation. They use units of ten thousand mu and add up to 230.3957, close to the rounded provincial total. Bengbu’s small entry is 0.0057 in that unit—57 mu, not 5,700 mu.

The chart replaces the source’s watermarked map with an English presentation of the same listed values. It is a comparison of the cities shown in that compilation; the absence of another city from the list should not automatically be read as a confirmed zero.

City	Area (10,000 mu)	Approximate hectares
Huangshan	97.39	64,926.67
Xuancheng	45.46	30,306.67
Anqing	33.28	22,186.67
Lu’an	32.68	21,786.67
Chizhou	9.8	6,533.33
Hefei	4.48	2,986.67
Wuhu	2.78	1,853.33
Chuzhou	1.57	1,046.67
Tongling	1.48	986.67
Ma’anshan	1.47	980.00
Bengbu	0.0057	3.80

What the ranking shows—and what it cannot show

In the source compilation, Huangshan ranks first, followed by Xuancheng, Anqing and Lu’an. Huangshan’s 97.39 ten-thousand mu is substantially larger than any other listed city. That is a useful counterpoint to a tea map drawn only from the fame of individual teas.

Area is not output, value, quality or market share. Nor is land classified as tea garden necessarily the same measure as an agricultural series reporting tea planted or harvested area. Before comparing another province, check that the reference year, definitions and units match. Apparent contradictions can come from mixing different statistical systems.

Read a land-use number with its label attached

For research or an industry presentation, keep four items together: the source, the reference date, the unit and the definition. That makes the figures reusable without turning a historical snapshot into a claim about today.

The original essay uses land data to ask a better question about a famous tea province. Its lasting lesson is methodological: look beyond reputation, but also avoid asking an area figure to answer questions it was not designed to measure.