Anhui Province and Shanghai Municipality, from the map, these two places are separated by Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province, and there is no border between them. But you know what? Sometimes distance really isn't a problem. In the territory of Anhui Province, there is a piece of land living tens of thousands of Shanghai people. It's a few hundred kilometers away, but that doesn't mean it's under Shanghai's administrative jurisdiction.
This piece of land from Shanghai "flying" to Anhui is the famous Shanghai Huangshan tea forest.
Huangshan in Anhui Province is rich in famous tea, especially "Huangshan Maofeng" "top valley generous" two tea, is ranked among the top ten of China's most famous tea. The government in order to better develop the tea resources of the Huangshan Mountain, the official establishment of the Huangshan Tea Forest in 1955, when it was still under the Anhui Provincial Public Security Bureau, ten years later, the Huangshan Tea Forest as the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Reclamation of the state farms and was handed over to the Shanghai Municipal Management. After consultation between Anhui Province and Shanghai Municipality, the original Anhui Huangshan Forest Farm was officially transferred to Shanghai Municipality in 1966, and renamed as Shanghai Huangshan Forest Farm. Two years later, the Shanghai Huangshan Tea Forest and the Shanghai Huangshan Forest merged, still called the Shanghai Huangshan Tea Forest, and fully managed by the Shanghai Municipality.
Shanghai Huangshan Tea Forest is under the jurisdiction of the Shanghai Municipality, so a number of young people from Shanghai have come here one after another to struggle for their lives and to take root in the countryside. At its peak after 1968, there were more than 10,000 Shanghainese working and living in Shanghai Huangshan Tea Plantation in Anhui Province, known as "10,000 intellectuals, 100,000 Dashan". They Shanghai Huangshan tea forest hard work, waving their youth, a long time, but also accustomed to life here, and ultimately will choose to bring their relatives, family members and friends together here to survive and develop, so also to the Shanghai Huangshan tea forest y branded Shanghai, so the locals in Anhui Province, also known as the place affectionately as "Anhui small Shanghai".
In this "Little Shanghai" in Anhui Province, not only the beautiful scenery, fresh air, prices are not expensive, but also the use of Shanghai health insurance card, so the Shanghai people in this side of the residence is also very convenient.