Coffee consumption in China is growing by more than 40% a year.

It is reported that in recent years, China's coffee consumption has risen sharply, with an annual growth rate of more than 40%. It has become an important "engine" of global coffee consumption and has attracted the attention of the world.

In 2003, China's total coffee consumption was 19080 tons, double that of 1995, with an annual growth rate of 14.9%. The annual per capita consumption was 14.7g, 0.18% of that of Europe, 0.35% of that of the United States and 0.49% of Japan. The exotic flavor of coffee has been accepted by more and more Chinese people, especially young people. Coffee bars are nothing new in big cities, and they have developed rapidly in the past two years. Last year, the International Coffee Association publicly declared that China, with only 20% of the world's total population, has become the world's most potential coffee market.

Popularize and speed up to catch up with tea

In the past two years, the domestic consumption of coffee has developed very rapidly, with an annual growth rate of 40% to 45%. However, there has not been a large-scale coffee wholesale market in China, and the market demand calls for the "birth" of the coffee professional wholesale market.

According to the analysis of food industry experts, 2006 is the fifth year after China's accession to the WTO, the international trade of coffee and related products will usher in a substantial reduction in tariffs or even a complete liberalization of the market, and a large number of foreign coffee raw materials, products and equipment will enter the Chinese market. On July 20, 2005, China and ASEAN officially began to give preferential tariff treatment to each other on about 7000 commodities of origin, which means that products from Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Malaysia and other ASEAN countries will enter China with zero tariff, and coffee has become the first batch of benefiting goods. With the arrival of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Shanghai World Expo and the Guangzhou Asian Games, coffee full of "foreign flavor" will generally enter the homes of ordinary people and become a popular drink after tea.

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