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Main technical content: Hakka small and medium-sized leaf black tea is made from small and medium-sized leaf tea trees (with a leaf area ≤ 40 cm2) grown within the Hakka HeYuan administrative region. It is processed from the buds, leaves, and tender stems of small and medium-sized leaf tea trees through such processes as withering, rolling, fermentation, drying, shaping, and packaging to produce a strip-shaped black tea product with specific quality characteristics. This document specifies the terms and definitions of the processing technology of Hakka small and medium-sized leaf black tea, raw material requirements, processing site requirements, processing equipment requirements, processing personnel requirements, processing process requirements, and storage and transportation requirements. This document is applicable to the processing of Hakka small and medium-sized leaf black tea produced within the Hakka HeYuan administrative region.