Yiyang

Tea pressed into a brick ↗

Anhua County presses dark tea into bricks and logs that were built to travel. The leaf, the road it took and the county that still makes it are the three stages of a mountain product's long journey to market, from caravan to domestic table.

The wetland that keeps shrinking ↗

South Dongting Lake is a 168,000-hectare Ramsar wetland in the lake's southern arm. Its marshes, its winter birds and the farmland reclaimed from it are the three pressures the wetland has carried for a century.