Xinglong Coffee and Premier Zhou's Connection

In 1960, Premier Zhou visited Xinglong Coffee Garden on the second from the left.

Next to the ancient village company of Xinglong Farm in Wanning City, there is a stone tablet telling the story of the affable Premier Zhou Enlai's bond with the fragrant Xinglong coffee.

Originally, coffee will not intersect with Xinglong. However, in 1952, the first batch of returned overseas Chinese pioneered in Xinglong. In history, more than 10,000 overseas Chinese returned from Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, and they all had the habit of drinking coffee when they were abroad. The natural environment and soil conditions in Xinglong area are quite similar to those in Southeast Asian countries, and growing coffee in Xinglong has become a spiritual driving force for returned overseas Chinese to develop production.

At the same time, in order to increase income, the introduction of coffee can also make up for the long harvest period of long-term crops such as rubber. At that time, coffee became one of the main cash crops in Xinglong. When there was a bumper harvest of coffee, every household in Xinglong was as busy as picking tea.

Due to the specific soil, climatic conditions and pollution-free cultivation of organic fertilizer, the caffeine content of medium-grain Xinglong coffee beans is higher than that in other parts of Hainan. The strict control of ingredients, time and temperature in the roasting process also makes the quality of Xinglong coffee relatively stable.

On February 7, 1960, Premier Zhou Enlai inspected Xinglong Farm. During the break, the waiter brought coffee to Premier Zhou. "Xinglong Coffee is world-class. I have drunk a lot of foreign coffee, but the coffee we grow is good." Premier Zhou praised after drinking coffee and drank three cups in a row.

Premier Zhou returned to Beijing and asked his secretary to call the Shanghai Food Branch and ask them to send an engineer to Xinglong to "learn from the experience". The senior engineer came to record in detail the experience of stir-frying and brewing Xinglong coffee.

Party and state leaders Zhu de, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, Dong Biwu, Peng Zhen and Ye Jianying also came to prosper one after another, and gradually, Xinglong coffee became an indispensable treat for guests.

In addition to the head of the central government, many foreign experts also praised Xinglong Coffee. A German engineer never forgot after tasting Xinglong coffee during a visit to Xinglong, bought two jin before leaving, and wrote to buy another 10 jin soon after returning to Germany.

The idea of "the emperor's daughter is not worried about getting married" is out of date. While adhering to the quality, Xinglong Coffee will also combine the strategy of Hainan International Tourism Island to realize the industrialization, scale and standardization of Xinglong Coffee, and let Xinglong Coffee go out of Hainan again. To the whole country and the world.