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Abstract
Wuling Mountain Area of Hubei Province is a key tea-producing area in China, and the tea industry is its agricultural pillar industry. First, this paper introduces the tea industry in Wuling Mountain Area. Then, from traditional knowledge, biological genetic resources, new plant varieties, patents, geographical indications, trademarks, etc., it studies the intellectual property resources of its tea industry. Next, it analyzes main problems of its intellectual property protection and inheritance, innovation and development. It also discusses the strategy of inheritance, innovation and high-quality development of the tea industry in this ethnic area in the context of the strategy of strengthening the country with intellectual property rights and the strategy of rural revitalization. Finally, it comes up with pertinent recommendations, including implementing the traditional tea production process and technical protection project, protecting the biological genetic resources of tea trees, cultivating new varieties of tea plants bred independently, creating high value patents, building regional public brands, and strengthening intellectual property protection.