Chinese coffee has ushered in a recovery period with the country's reform and opening up.

From December 18 to 22, 1978, the third plenary session of Communist Party of China's 11th Central Committee was held in Beijing. The main achievements of this conference are: re-establishing the party's Marxist ideological line. The plenum resolutely criticized the erroneous policy of the "two whatevers", spoke highly of the discussion on the standard of truth, and established the guiding principle of emancipating the mind, using the brain, seeking truth from facts, and uniting to look forward. Re-established the Marxist political line. The plenum resolutely stopped using the slogans of "taking class struggle as the key link" and "continuing revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat" and made a strategic decision to shift the focus of work to the socialist modernization drive.

In 1980, four ministries and one agency held the first national coffee conference in Baoshan City, Yunnan Province.

In 1980, nearly 20 years later, as the second main industry in Yunnan reclamation area, coffee began to develop again. Coffee mainly planted small seeds, including Bobang and Tibika. The eight-step farm first planted 8.73 hectares. Since 1981, natural protection and health have been planted in the upper limit of the glue planting area, and by 1985, the cumulative area has reached 225.8 hectares. Coffee was put into production in 1982 and produced 5.08 tons of dried beans, rising to 38.7 tons in 1985. A total of 108.82 tons of coffee beans were produced, of which 105.08 tons were produced in the later period. Babu Farm is a coffee-based farm. By 1985, the area had grown to 71.47 hectares. From 1982 to 1985, a total of 67.28 tons of coffee beans were produced, accounting for 64.0% of the total output of the whole branch. The factory has a simple processing plant for handling 50 tons of fresh fruit a day.

In the late 1980s, with the assistance of the United Nations Development Program in Yunnan and the participation of Nestle, Maize and other specialized coffee production groups, the price of coffee increased, up to 30 yuan per kilogram, and by the end of 1988, the area of the province recovered to more than 1333.33 hectares. Among them, Lujiang Dam in Baoshan City has more than 6.6667 million hectares, with a total output of about 500tons, but it has not yet reached the highest level in history.

In 1986, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, together with the Haikou Municipal Government, borrowed 50 million yuan from the bank to build Haikou Lishen instant coffee factory, and introduced China's first instant coffee production line from abroad. The installation and commissioning began in the second half of 1987 and was put into production in 1988, and the product quality reached the international advanced standards. it is a successful case of China's coffee taking the lead in introducing, digesting and absorbing advanced equipment.

From 1980 to 1987, Guangdong cultivated a total of 3620 hectares of coffee, of which Hainan Agricultural Reclamation Bureau planted 1886.67 hectares, Tongshi Agricultural Reclamation Bureau planted 1300 hectares, and Western Guangdong Agricultural Reclamation Bureau planted 433.33 hectares.