It is 800 years since ＂Chongyi Hakka Terrace＂ became an important agricultural cultural heritage in the world.

　　China Jiangxi Network Ganzhou News CorrespondentLiu binReport: At about 17: 00 Beijing time on April 19th, 2018, news came from the headquarters of FAO in Rome, Italy. At the 5th GIAHS International Forum, 14 projects in China, Egypt, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Spain and Sri Lanka were awarded the title of "Global Important Agricultural Cultural Heritage". "Rice Terrace System in Southern Mountainous Areas of China"-"Hakka Terrace in Chongyi, Jiangxi" was officially recognized as an important global agricultural cultural heritage, and was awarded the license by FAO on the spot. Liu Chunxiang, the county leader, attended the forum in Rome on behalf of the county party committee and government and accepted the award from Ms. Sai Mei Duo, Deputy Director-General of FAO. Since then, "Jiangxi Chongyi Hakka Terrace" has officially stepped out of the country and entered the world.

　　It is reported that there are four new projects in China this time: rice terraced field system in southern mountainous areas of China, agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry complex system in Zhagana, Diebu, Gansu, mulberry fish pond system in Huzhou, Zhejiang, and ancient mulberry trees in Xiajin, Shandong. So far, 15 projects in China have entered the world’s important agricultural cultural heritage protection family, ranking first in the world.

　　In 2014, the Chongyi County Party Committee and the county government officially launched the application for the Hakka terraced fields. In the past four years, around the "protection, inheritance and development" of terraced fields, the county has spared no effort to make the Hakka terraced fields "original".

　　From September 17th to 19th, 2017, Hailinda Ouyiqi, an expert from the Expert Advisory Group of the Global Important Agricultural Cultural Heritage (GIAHS) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and her party visited our county for a three-day investigation and evaluation of the global important agricultural cultural heritage.

　　On September 26, 2017, news came from the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy, and the request for the global important agricultural cultural heritage "Chongyi Hakka Terrace System" declared by our county was approved in principle by the experts of the GIAHS Scientific Advisory Committee.

　　On February 5th, 2018, FAO sent a letter to China’s Ministry of Agriculture, confirming that "China Southern Mountain Rice Terrace System" was selected as a global important agricultural cultural heritage, and Jiangxi Chongyi Hakka Terrace was selected as a sub-project of "China Southern Rice Terrace System" as a global important agricultural cultural heritage (GIAHS).

　　On April 19, 2018, the "China Southern Mountain Rice Terrace System"-"Jiangxi Chongyi Hakka Terrace" was officially recognized as an important global agricultural cultural heritage, and was awarded by the FAO in Rome, Italy.

　　It is reported that "Jiangxi Chongyi Hakka Terrace" existed in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was built in the late Ming Dynasty and completed in the early Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 800 years. Looking at the Hakka terraces, I saw a chain-like belt, winding from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, layered on top of each other and strewn at random; Seen from a height, the beautiful lines of terraced fields are one by one, or parallel or cross, winding like spring snails and spreading like a cloud tower, showing the fascinating curvaceous beauty. Its lines are flowing, natural and unrestrained, and it is known as the "beautiful ladder", and it is also one of the oldest ancient terraced fields in China. Pieces, rows and rows of terraced fields are like a heavy epic across the world, witnessing the wisdom and sweat of Hakka ancestors and becoming a spectacle of Hakka farming civilization. At present, Chongyi Hakka Terrace Reserve covers an area of more than 40,000 mu, stretching over Shangbao, Fengzhou and Sishun townships, with more than 30,000 mu in Shangbao alone. The scope of the reserve is 73 kilometers from east to west and 59 kilometers from north to south.