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Two way poverty alleviation?! Shanghai office buildings now buy coffee for 0 yuan!

Published: 2026-04-06 Author:

Last Updated: 2026/04/06, ▲ Click to pay attention| Daily Boutique Coffee Culture Magazine Coffee Factory Recently, a netizen posted a post titled "Targeted Poverty Alleviation in Shanghai" on social platforms, which aroused the curiosity and onlookers of many netizens. The poster said that recently, in the canteen of the office building where he worked, a restaurant marked "Poverty Alleviation through Consumption."

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Recently, a netizen posted a post entitled "accurate Poverty Alleviation in Shanghai" on a social platform, which aroused the curiosity and onlookers of many netizens.

The poster said that recently, a coffee machine marked "consumption Poverty Alleviation counter" was placed in the office canteen where he worked. The order screen shows that the drinks sold by this coffee machine are extremely cheap, basically no more than 4 yuan, including two lattes priced at 0 yuan.

Such a low price really surprised the poster and immediately issued an order to try. The poster said that this low-cost cup of coffee may be slightly inferior to some brands of drinks on the market, but for less fastidious consumers, the price is too attractive. Teasing this coffee machine is "accurate poverty alleviation" to beat workers.

For a time, both Shanghai migrant workers and netizens in other areas envied it. Some people say that for people who can't live without caffeine, a cup of coffee a day has become a habit, but in the long run, it will produce a lot of coffee, adding to their financial pressure.

Therefore, the emergence of this coffee machine is like a paradise for workers who are not rich to achieve coffee freedom, hoping that it can be put around the place where they live or work, so that they can be "poverty alleviation".

In fact, this coffee machine is indeed used for "accurate poverty alleviation", but not as netizens joke. It is actually a measure launched by the Shanghai government for precise poverty alleviation, aimed at promoting Yunnan coffee and helping local farmers in Yunnan shake off poverty and become rich. Many netizens in the comment area also said that as Yunnan is one of Shanghai's precise poverty alleviation counterparts, local characteristic agricultural products such as flowers, coffee and mushrooms will be brought to Shanghai consumers.

However, for citizens living in Jiadu, the measures taken by the Shanghai government to help Yunnan farmers out of poverty also help them save their daily expenses, leading many people to jokingly call this measure "mutual poverty alleviation" and "from this price point of view, it has helped." "this poverty alleviation project is quite good, matching supply and demand," so much so that some people say that the emergence of this "poverty alleviation coffee machine" is a two-way trip between Shanghai, which is in great demand for coffee, and Yunnan, which is rich in coffee.

Many people in the comment area suggested that this kind of 0-yuan coffee machine should appear more in crowded office buildings, office halls and other places. However, some netizens pointed out that although this kind of coffee vending machine can provide coffee drinks conveniently and quickly, the interior of the machine is extremely easy to hide dirt, and if it is not cleaned in time, it may breed bacteria and attract Xiaoqiang.

They believe that the local government can not only accurately help poverty alleviation, help coffee producers in Yunnan, but also provide convenient low-cost coffee for coffee-loving citizens by launching such coffee machines on occasions with high flow of people. however, it should also be considered that the machine may have food safety risks.

However, some netizens think that "the coffee is already 0 yuan, so there is no need for a bike." The coffee machine, which can bring some benefits to farmers and consumers, may pose food safety risks, but as long as managers clean it up in time, there is no need to worry too much.

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