I'm lucky to have been part of an assessment team to visit the site early July 2013.

The mountain area is supposed to be an excellent example of tea cultural landscape - where tea culture, Hirayana Buddhism and traditional folk culture of Dai, Bulang, Yi and Lahu minorities have joined together to shape a beautiful landscape.

Among the traditional villages inspected, the best ones are Nuogan and Wengji - whose houses have the least intervention, and visual integrity not compromised.