Abstract: China is a major tea producing country, and tea cultivation has characteristics of large area, wide distribution, and complex terrain．Development of tea industry must be achieved through mechanization of tea plantation production．Key aspects of tea production include cultivation and fertilization, plant protection, irrigation, pruning, and picking．Currently, manual shallow tillage and weeding are main methods of cultivation, and micro tillage machines are used in larger tea gardens．Manual sprayers are commonly used for plant protection but physical control methods can be introduced to assist them．Hand or hand-held machines are primarily used for mass tea picking while ride-type tea picking machines are utilized in mechanized gardens on a larger scale．However, famous teas still rely on manual labor for their harvesting process．Therefore, through study of mechanization status of key links such as tea plantation cultivation, plant protection, and tea picking in southern region, problems of mechanization in tea plantation infrastructure construction, operation machinery, and agricultural machinery integration in southern region were analyzed．Based on above problems, ideas for accelerating mechanization process of tea plantation planting were proposed, aiming to provide reference for development of mechanization in tea plantation planting in southern region．