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Hunan Agricultural University (HAU), established in 1903, is one of the earliest comprehensive agricultural universities in China to set up a major on tea science, which has more than 60 years of history of scientific research and talent cultivation on tea. HAU has national research platform on tea science, has great achievements on research fields such as tea processing theory and technology, tea comprehensive processing and utilization of functional components, tea and human health, tea plant biology and germplasm innovation, tea plant ecological physiology and cultivation, to drive Chinese tea industry rapid development.