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China · 89 shops in the atlas.

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• Ao Yun (敖云酒庄) deqin
  Ao Yun is LVMH's Himalayan winery, drawing grapes from four high-altitude villages—Adong, Xidang, Sinong and Shuori—at the foot of Meili Snow Mountain in Deqin County. store page → · open in the atlas →

• Guifaxiang (Eighteenth Street Fried Dough Twists) Tianjin / China
  Guifaxiang has twisted its signature Eighteenth Street fried-dough mahua in Tianjin since 1927, now producing sesame-studded twists, pastries and seasonal gift tins from its factory on Dongting Road. The century-old brand sells through its own Tmall and JD storefronts alongside a network of directly operated Tianjin shops. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hu Qing Yu Tang Wushan / Hefang Street, Hangzhou
  Opened by the merchant Hu Xueyan in 1874, Hu Qing Yu Tang earned the title 'Pharmacy King of Jiangnan' for its scrupulously sourced pills, powders and herbal pastes. The Qing-era dispensary below Wushan Hill still compounds hundreds of traditional remedies and keeps a museum of Chinese medicine behind its carved timber hall. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Keemun (Qihong Group) Qimen County, Huangshan, Anhui, China
  The brand dates Keemun black tea to 1875, when Hu Yuanlong adapted southern red-tea methods to Qimen County's leaf and created the smoky, orchid-scented style that became known abroad as the 'queen of black teas'. The site represents the present-day successor to that Qing-dynasty workshop, still processing Qihong-branded black tea from the same Anhui county. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Qiulin Food (Churin) Harbin
  Tracing its roots to the Russian-founded Churin trading house of 1900, this Harbin institution makes the city's Russian-style staples: red sausage, dinner-plate-sized dalieba rye bread and liqueur-filled candies. Its bread and sausage carry provincial intangible-cultural-heritage status, sold across nine product lines from the Nangang headquarters. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Rongbaozhai Liulichang, Xicheng District, Beijing
  Founded in 1672 on Liulichang cultural street, this art house deals in Chinese calligraphy and painting along with brushes, ink, inkstones and seals. It is known for its woodblock-print reproductions. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wangxingji Fans Hangzhou, Zhejiang
  Founded in 1875, Wangxingji built its name on black-paper folding fans coated in persimmon lacquer and on scented sandalwood fans, a range that now covers more than ten thousand designs across nineteen categories. National and provincial intangible-heritage masters still cut, mount and hand-paint the fans at the Hangzhou workshop, which pairs its retail hall with a small fan museum. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yutang Sauce Garden (玉堂酱园) Jining, Shandong, China
  Yutang has fermented soy sauce, vinegar, and pickled vegetables in Jining since the Qing dynasty, a run of roughly 300 years that earned it recognition as a China Time-Honored Brand. Its jiangcai pickled condiments remain the signature Jining product, still made by the original slow-fermentation methods described on the company's own site. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Zhang Xiaoquan Hangzhou, Zhejiang
  Zhang Xiaoquan has forged scissors in the Hangzhou tradition since 1628, and in 2006 its layered steel-and-iron forging technique was listed among China's first National Intangible Cultural Heritage items. The centuries-old name now also makes kitchen knives, garden tools and cutting boards. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Zhang Yiyuan Beijing / China
  Zhang Yiyuan opened its first shop in 1900, in the 26th year of the Guangxu reign, when founder Zhang Changyi — a native of Dingtan Village in Anhui's She County — set up a stall named Zhang Yuyuan at Beijing's Flower Market. store page → · open in the atlas →

• Beijing Daoxiangcun Multiple, Beijing (No.0 store, Dongcheng)
  A Beijing pastry house making mooncakes, jujube cakes, sachima and the seasonal jing badian, trading from its No.0 store in Dongcheng and beyond. A time-honoured brand in the capital. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Dege Parkhang (Dege Sutra Printing House) dege
  The Dege Parkhang is an 18th-century Tibetan woodblock-printing house in Dege, still producing sutras and texts from carved blocks. It also prints woodblock thangka on hand-made Tibetan paper. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fangsuo Commune (方所) Taikoo Li, Jinjiang District, Chengdu
  Fangsuo Commune's Chengdu store sits below the Taikoo Li quarter beside the Daci Temple, a cavernous design-led bookshop stocking Chinese and foreign titles, stationery and craft objects. Its temple-inspired concrete interior threads reading galleries through a coffee bar and a curated range of homeware and apparel. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Guangxi Sanhuan Enterprise Group Beiliu, Yulin, Guangxi
  One of China's largest makers of daily-use porcelain, this Beiliu institution produces dinnerware and household porcelain. Its wares ship worldwide from a city known as a national ceramics capital. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Huaimao (槐茂) Baoding
  A Baoding time-honoured brand (Zhonghua Laozihao), Huaimao makes traditional pickled vegetables and sweet flour-bean sauce. The centuries-old maker remains a local food institution. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Inner Mongolia Xuanda Food Co., Ltd Wuyuan County, Bayannur, Inner Mongolia, China
  Founded in 2006 on the Hetao Plain, this producer processes sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds and walnuts. It works from China's largest sunflower-growing region. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Miaoxiang Sanqi (苗乡三七 / Wenshan Miaoxiang Sanqi Industry Co., Ltd.) Wenshan, Yunnan
  Miaoxiang Sanqi grows and sells Panax notoginseng, the sanqi root that is Yunnan's signature medicinal herb, from its home in Wenshan. Its range runs from whole notoginseng root to powder and flower products. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Minrong Tea (闽槕茶业) Mawei District, Fuzhou
  Minrong Tea continues Fuzhou's Da Jing Tea House, opened in 1905, now led by Wang Dexing, a recognized inheritor of the city's jasmine-scenting craft. It grows jasmine and tea on over 50,000 mu of its own gardens for graded lines like Wu Fu Wu Yin. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Neiliansheng Dashilan, Qianmen, Xicheng District, Beijing
  Founded in 1853, a Beijing maker of multi-layer cloth shoes that once shod Qing officials. Its 'qianceng di' craft is recognised as National Intangible Cultural Heritage. store page → · open in the atlas →
• PorSva (Jianshui Zitao) Jianshui, Honghe, Yunnan
  PorSva makes Jianshui zitao (purple pottery) teaware from the five-coloured clay of Wucai Mountain in Wanyao Village, Yunnan — hand-carved teapots, gaiwan, tea sets, cups and canisters produced in a centuries-old artisan tradition. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wankelai Jade (Xiuyan Wankelai Jade Industry Development Co.) Xiuyan, Anshan, Liaoning
  Based in Anshan's Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, home to famed Xiuyan jade, this enterprise carries on a carving tradition some 2,000 years old. It produces carved jadeware and master pieces. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wuyutai Wangfujing, Dongcheng District, Beijing
  Wuyutai has sold tea in Beijing since 1887, when the house first hung out its sign. Its jasmine tea is picked and scented and blended by the house itself. That craft was added to the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2011 and to the UNESCO intangible heritage list in 2022. The Wangfujing flagship at 186 Wangfujing Street sells tea and tea sets downstairs with a tea house above. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yunnan Dianhong Group (Fengpai / 凤牌) Fengqing County, Lincang, Yunnan
  Headquartered in Fengqing County where tea expert Feng Shaoqiu created Dianhong in 1938, this group — established March 1939 and now farming over 6,600 hectares — makes the Fengpai range of Yunnan black tea, from everyday to gold-tip Jinya grades. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 义兴张祥记道口烧鸡老铺 (Yixingzhang Xiangji Daokou Roast Chicken) Daokou, Hua County (Huaxian), Anyang
  Yixingzhang (义兴张), the Daokou roast chicken house, traces its founding to 1661 in the Shunzhi reign. In 1787 Zhang Bing (张炳) took over the shop and received a recipe from the imperial cook Liu Yi (刘义), naming the business Yixingzhang. Nine generations later the company operates from Jiaoyu Road in Daokou town, Hua County (滑县). Chickens are braised through more than ten steps with a dozen spices in a broth carried over from earlier batches. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 圣地莲花墨脱石锅 (Shengdi Lianhua Medog Stone Pot) Medog County, Nyingchi, Tibet
  This brand hand-carves Medog stone pots from local soapstone quarried in the Yarlung Tsangpo valley. The finished cookware is used for slow-simmered soups, chicken and porridge. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 帛巴瑞蜡染馆 (Pobarey Batik Museum & Experience Gallery) Xixiu District, Anshun
  Anshun's Pobarey museum and experience hall houses over 700 Miao, Buyi and Yao wax-resist textiles, with hands-on indigo-dye classes at its Gu Family Former Residence branch. Its shop sells hand-woven batik goods alongside an indigo coffee corner. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 西部牦牛产业集团 (Western Yak Industry Group) hongyuan
  Based on the Hongyuan grasslands, the Western Yak Industry Group processes local yak milk into its Hongyuan-branded milk powder. That grassland herd's milk powder is the company's mainstay. store page → · open in the atlas →

• Longquan Sword Factory (浙江省龙泉市宝剑厂) Longquan, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
  This state-recognized Chinese Time-Honored enterprise traces to 1956, continuing a Longquan swordsmithing tradition dated to the Spring and Autumn period, more than 2,600 years ago. Master craftsman Zhang Yesheng still forges on site at a factory that doubles as a national industrial-tourism site. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nantong Blue Calico Museum (南通蓝印花布博物馆) Nantong / China
  Founded in 1996 by master craftsman Wu Yuanxin in Nantong, Jiangsu, this museum preserves the region's indigo-resist blue calico dyeing tradition, listed as national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. Its collection exceeds 26,000 textile pieces, and the affiliated Yuanxinlan workshop still produces the cloth using the historic lime-and-bean-flour resist technique. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tunxi Hu Kaiwen Ink Factory Tunxi District, Huangshan, Anhui, China
  This Tunxi workshop continues the Hu Kaiwen inkmaking lineage, pressing pine-soot, resin and hide glue into solid ink sticks by hand before carving and gilding them. The factory sits in Huangshan's old Tunxi quarter, one of the last places still producing traditional Hui ink at this scale. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Xuegu (学古) Shenzhen / China
  Founded by Chaozhou gongfu tea heritage-transmitter Kong Hongqiang, Xuegu runs a 10,000-piece antique-teaware museum at Shenzhen's Fuzhi Humanistic Space and sells its own gongfu tea sets and reproduction furniture via an official Tmall store. store page → · open in the atlas →

• Annabel Lee Shanghai / China
  Annabel Lee's Bund flagship reinterprets classical Chinese motifs - dragons, birdcages, lotus - into modern textiles and homeware, housed in a store modeled on Huizhou vernacular architecture. Founded in 2000, the brand sells through its flagship store and its own online shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Awazon Tea Kunming
  Awazon Tea, a husband-and-wife Kunming vendor, presses its own pu-erh cakes and sources Yunnan factory teas, shipping internationally since the 2000s. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Bananafish Books (香蕉鱼书店) Shanghai
  At Hongbaoshi Rd 7, Shanghai, Bananafish Books (香蕉鱼书店) is an evidence-verified current door for independent art publications and zines. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Bi Liufu Oil-Paper Umbrella (毕六福油纸伞) Luzhou (Fenshuiling) / China
  In Fenshuiling, a small town outside Luzhou in Sichuan, the Bi family has made oil-paper umbrellas for six generations, a lineage now carried by Bi Liufu, a national-level Intangible Cultural Heritage inheritor for oil-paper umbrella craft and a Guinness World Record holder for hand-made oil-paper umbrellas. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chen Changyin Mahua (陈昌银麻花) Ciqikou old town, Shapingba, Chongqing
  A fixture of the Ciqikou old town riverfront, Chen Changyin hand-twists and fries crisp mahua dough sticks in flavours from sweet sesame to the tongue-numbing Sichuan-pepper ma-la. The maker carries the Ciqikou twist tradition and is a registered Chongqing time-honoured brand. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chengde Cultural & Creative Product R&D Center (承德市文化创意产品研发中心) Chengde, Hebei, China
  A Chengde workshop and gallery that develops and sells cultural-creative products rooted in local intangible heritage, including Fengning bu hu hua fabric-paste pictures built up from layered, cotton-stuffed silk. It documents and markets regional crafts drawn from the imperial Mountain Resort city's traditions. store page → · open in the atlas →
• CHOISI Hangzhou / China
  CHOISI in Hangzhou is a design studio specializing in bespoke 3D-printed contemporary products and furniture. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Daiyuexuan (戴月轩) Beijing
  At Liulichang St, Xicheng, Beijing, Daiyuexuan (戴月轩) is an evidence-verified current door for handmade ink brushes. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Dandong Laotang Textile Mill Dandong, Liaoning
  Dandong Laotang Textile Mill turns local silk into exfoliating bath gloves and body scrub mitts, drawing on Liaoning's long tussah-silk tradition along the Yalu River. It sells single- and double-layer silk gloves and self-tanning mitts direct to retail and wholesale buyers through its own site. store page → · open in the atlas →
• dododo book (多多书店) Shanghai
  At 1F, No. 678 Miaojiang Rd, Huangpu, Shanghai, dododo book (多多书店) is an evidence-verified current door for contemporary art, architecture and design books. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Dropenling (Tibet Artisan Initiative) Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
  Dropenling has connected Tibetan artisans in and around Lhasa to buyers since 2003, the first organization to build a retail platform for woven textiles and carpets, painted wood furnishings, stone carvings, leather bags, jewelry, dolls and toys made entirely by Tibetan makers within Tibet. Profits are reinvested into the artisan communities that produce the goods, and the initiative also runs training to keep traditional techniques active. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fengqing Chensheng Hong Tea Co. (凤庆陈升红) Fengqing County, Lincang, Yunnan, China
  Founded in 2019 by veteran tea maker Chen Shenghe (also behind the Chen Sheng Hao pu-erh house), this Fengqing County producer makes Dianhong red teas from local large-leaf material at a roughly 33-acre eco-focused headquarters in Yunnan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gongpai West Lake Longjing (Hangzhou West Lake Longjing Tea Co.) West Lake, Hangzhou
  Founded in 1984 in Longjing village near Shifeng peak, Gongpai holds the first license to use West Lake Longjing's official geographical-protection trademark. It grades pan-fired Dragon Well by harvest date, prizing the earliest pre-Qingming pick. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Grey Sugar Home Chengdu / China
  Grey Sugar Home in Chengdu displays furniture designed for living rooms and dining spaces across multiple design zones. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Gu's Incense (谷氏香业) Langfang / China
  Gu Junming is the thirteenth-generation heir to a family incense-making craft rooted in Guzhuang Village, Anci District, Langfang — a lineage his family and Beijing Daily's own reporting trace back roughly 600 years to the Yuan-Ming dynastic transition, when an ancestral migration from Shanxi is said to have carried the trade into Hebei. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Guilin Lijiang Tea Factory Longji Town, Longsheng County
  Founded in 2001 by tea engineer Huang Rongxiong after his state tea plant's restructuring, this Longsheng factory farms over 500 mu of terraced gardens and old wild trees, making Guilin osmanthus tea, Yunding Longji black tea and aged Liubao. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Heizi Jian Zhan (黑子建盏) Nanping / China
  Led by master craftsman Zhan Yanfu, honored in 1998 as a Fujian "Eight Min Outstanding Talent," this Jianyang, Nanping studio revives Song-dynasty jianzhan tea bowls in hare's-fur, jade-hair and starlight glazes, giving each piece a numbered authentication code for collectors. store page → · open in the atlas →
• JasTea Fuzhou Scented Tea Industrial Base, Fujian
  JasTea sells Fuzhou jasmine tea made with Master Chen Chengzhong, a fourth-generation tea master whose family has hand-scented jasmine tea in the city for more than a century, following the seven-step process recognized as National Intangible Cultural Heritage. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Jian Zhan Shop Qianshan Anshan / China
  Jian Zhan Shop, run from Jinglan Pottery Studio in Anshan, hand-throws and wood-fires tenmoku tea bowls and teapots at around 1300°C, reviving the Song Dynasty Jianzhan glazing tradition from Jianyang, Fujian. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Jiangji Distillery (Jiangxiaobai / 江小白) Baisha, Jiangjin, Chongqing
  On the Yangtze at Baisha town in Chongqing's Jiangjin district, Jiangji Distillery makes the sorghum baijiu sold under the Jiangxiaobai (JOYBO) label along with its Meijian plum liqueur. It built its name on lighter, lower-intensity baijiu and minimalist single-serve bottles aimed at younger drinkers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Jindu Jinhua Ham (Jinhua Ham Industrial Co., Ltd.) Jinhua, Zhejiang, China
  Jindu traces its ham-curing lineage to 1947, when Jin Shihui's Yongchang Leg House began salting and slow-drying hind legs from local Jinhua pigs in Jinhua County. The company still follows the traditional multi-month curing process and has won National Gold Quality Awards in 1980, 1985, and 1990. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Jingfa Yiyuan Cloisonne Factory Store (京发益元景泰蓝) Beijing
  At Beijing Enamel Factory retail floor, 10 Yongwai Anlelin Rd, Beijing, Jingfa Yiyuan Cloisonne Factory Store (京发益元景泰蓝) is an evidence-verified current door for cloisonne enamelware. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Lancang Ancient Tea (瀾滄古茶) Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Yunnan, China
  Re-established in 1996 on a 1966 state factory, Lancang Ancient Tea presses pu'er near Jingmai Mountain, whose 1,300-year-old tea forest joined the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023. It sources from 100+ cooperatives and sells via Hong Kong retail. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Liulingzui (刘伶醉) Xushui, Baoding, Hebei
  Liulingzui is a heritage baijiu distillery in Xushui, Baoding, whose ancient distillation site and technique are protected as national intangible cultural heritage. Its liquor holds national geographic-indication status. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Madame Mao's Dowry Shanghai / China
  For more than two decades, Madame Mao's Dowry has collected Mao-era design pieces - propaganda posters, ceramics, mirrors - displaying them alongside contemporary Chinese designers' work at its Julu Lu studio. The gallery sells through its studio and a dedicated online shop page. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Manloulan (曼楼兰) Shanghai
  At Changle Lu, Huangpu, Shanghai, Manloulan (曼楼兰) is an evidence-verified current door for qipao and chinese-western fusion fashion. store page → · open in the atlas →
• P448 Shanghai / China
  Italian sneaker label founded in 2014 in Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, by Marco Samorè and Andrea Curti. Footwear is made in Europe; sold internationally, including at Paris's Printemps department store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• PandaPrank Online
  PandaPrank is a running-focused footwear studio founded in Guangzhou in 2020. It designs all-terrain trail shoes and organizes Salt Running Tribe races for its community. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Pingyao Tuiguang Lacquerware (PingyaoLacquer) Pingyao / China / Online
  Pingyao Tuiguang Lacquerware is a workshop in Pingyao, Shanxi, producing hand-painted lacquer jewelry boxes using a technique the site frames as national intangible cultural heritage. Each piece passes through 72 handcrafted steps spanning wood carving, lacquer coating, hand-painting, and polishing, and takes over three months to complete. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Raxxy Shanghai / Online
  Raxxy is a luxury down-jacket label founded in 2020 by Shanghai designer William Shen, with bases in Shanghai and Milan, known for geometric, mathematically patterned puffer construction shown at Pitti Uomo's China Wave section. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sean Suen PRINTEMPS
  Beijing menswear label founded by designer Sean Suen in 2012, known for fluid tailoring blending Chinese craft references with Western construction; stocked in Paris including through a concession at the Printemps department store. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shandong Dezhou Braised Chicken Co. (德州扒鸡) Dezhou, Shandong
  The flagship maker of Dezhou braised chicken, the slow-simmered spiced fowl that has carried the city's name since Qing-dynasty roadside stalls served travelers on the Grand Canal. The company continues to produce the vacuum-packed whole birds sold across Shandong railway platforms and shops under the protected regional name. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shibazi (Shi Ba Zi Zuo) Yangjiang / China
  Shibazi (十八子, also sold internationally as Shi Ba Zi Zuo) is a cutlery manufacturer in Yangjiang, Guangdong — the city whose blade-making tradition dates back roughly 1,400 years to the Tang dynasty and which today produces the large majority of China's knife exports. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shihegang Huangmiao Ecological Tea Factory Xinyang / China
  Shihegang Huangmiao Ecological Tea Factory grows and processes Xinyang Maojian green tea, red tea and white tea in Xinyang's Shihe District, grading pickings by season and by leaf standard, with direct-to-consumer online sale and same-day dispatch. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Song Fang Maison de Thé Shanghai / China
  Song Fang Maison de Thé was founded in 2007 by Florence Samson, a Parisian who had served as General Manager of Veuve Clicquot China before leaving that post in 2003 to pursue tea instead. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Songmont (Wangfu Central branch) Beijing
  At Unit 131a B1/F Wangfu Central Bldg 1, No. 269 Wangfujing St, Dongcheng, Beijing, Songmont (Wangfu Central branch) is an evidence-verified current door for leather bags and accessories. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Su Embroidery Studio Suzhou / China / Online
  Su Embroidery Studio has produced hand-embroidered silk paintings in Suzhou, China, since 2004, using the centuries-old Su embroidery technique to create collectible artworks and custom portrait commissions. The studio sells its pieces online and has shipped work to collectors in more than 60 countries. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tianfang Selenium Tea (天方富硒) Shitai County, Chizhou
  Grown in Shitai county's naturally selenium-rich soil -- a trait discovered in 1980s testing and granted national geographic-indication status in 2012 -- this Chizhou, Anhui producer's green tea is sold as loose leaf and gift tins domestically and abroad. store page → · open in the atlas →
• TINGXU Guangzhou / China
  Tingxu in Guangzhou designs leather goods and home furnishings rooted in Chinese heritage. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Uncle Cai's Tea (Enshi Miao'er Tea Co.) 195 Dongfeng Avenue, Enshi City, Hubei, China
  Run by Cai Yunsong, the German GBA-tested, 11th-generation bearer of the Enshi Yulu steamed-green-tea craft on Dongfeng Avenue, the house also makes pan-fired Enshi Buds, a local dragonwell using Longjing 43 cultivars, and a fermented Redwood black tea. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Valleyouth Shanghai / Online
  Chinese menswear founded 2012 by designer Li Wenjie with landscape architect Geng Hualiang — VALLEY plus YOUTH, nature-element design from everyday observation. store page → · open in the atlas →
• WE Knife Co. Yangjiang / China
  WE Knife Co., Ltd. is a bladesmithing and cutlery manufacturer based in Yangjiang, Guangdong, founded in 2000 as an OEM producer for established international cutlery brands before launching its own WE-branded folding and fixed-blade knife line in 2016. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wensli Silk Hangzhou, Zhejiang
  Established in 1975, Wensli turns Hangzhou mulberry silk into scarves, ties and framed silk artworks using a double-sided printing process it developed in-house, and it supplied ceremonial gifts for the G20 summit and the Asian Games. Its research center releases thousands of new patterns each year, sold alongside a silk culture museum that follows the fibre from cocoon to jacquard loom. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wu Luheng Wan'an Luopan Shop Wan'an, Xiuning County, Huangshan, Anhui, China
  This Wan'an old town shop has made the wooden luopan compasses used in feng shui and navigation since the Qing dynasty, a craft listed as national-level intangible cultural heritage. Current makers Wu Shuisen and Wu Zhaoguang hand-paint the concentric rings of characters onto each disc after it is turned on a lathe. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Xie Yuda Tea Huangshan, Anhui, China
  Xie Yuda dates to 1875, when Xie Zheng'an created Huangshan Maofeng near Fuxi in the Huangshan foothills. Six generations later the company still processes Maofeng, Taiping Houkui and Keemun black tea, now recognized as UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Xiling Seal Society Gushan islet, West Lake, Hangzhou
  Founded in 1904 on Gushan islet, the Xiling Seal Society is an institution devoted to seal engraving and stone-carved calligraphy, and its shop supplies hand-cut name seals, cinnabar seal paste, brushes and ink. Each object is checked by the society's craftsmen, continuing a scholarly tradition that has gathered seal artists for more than a century. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yidege (一得阁) Beijing
  At No. 44 Liulichang, Xicheng, Beijing, Yidege (一得阁) is an evidence-verified current door for traditional chinese ink. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yunnan Craft Kunming tea market
  Yunnan Craft, based in Kunming, sells sheng and shu pu-erh from mountains like Yiwu Shan and Menghai alongside wood-fired Jianshui purple-clay teapots, Yixing and Nixing pottery, and porcelain, ceramic or glass gaiwan sets. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yunnan Sourcing Kunming
  Operating from Kunming since 2004, Yunnan Sourcing catalogs pu-erh by mountain, factory and harvest year back to 2009, alongside Yixing teaware, cha gao tea resin, and other Yunnan teas, shipped via its own YS Express service. store page → · open in the atlas →
• YUU Lacquerware Yangzhou / China
  YUU Lacquerware is an English-language e-commerce retailer identifying itself as based in Yangzhou, China, one of several Chinese cities, alongside Fuzhou and Beijing, with a documented historic lacquerware tradition. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Zhangyiyuan Tea House (张一元) Beijing
  At No. 22 Dashilan St, Xicheng, Beijing, Zhangyiyuan Tea House (张一元) is an evidence-verified current door for jasmine-scented tea. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 红原牦牛乳业 (Hongyuan Yak Dairy) hongyuan
  On the Hongyuan grasslands, this dairy makes organic yak milk, yogurt and other yak-dairy products. It sells them under its Hongyuan, Tianci Youji and Yuanshi Youji brands. store page → · open in the atlas →
• 西藏芒康县藏东珍宝酒业有限公司 (达美拥 / Damei Yong) Yanjing Naxi Ethnic Township, Markam (Mangkang) County, Chamdo, Tibet
  Founded in 2009 in Markam's Yanjing township, this winery makes its Damei Yong wine from grapes grown at around 2,900 metres on the Markam plateau. The brand was registered in 2011. store page → · open in the atlas →

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