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The Coffee planting Industry in China is booming and changing the Poverty-stricken villages

Published: 2026-02-25 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/02/25, Coffee from the West and tea from the East. With the blending of Eastern and Western cultures, Eastern tea culture has long been integrated into the life of Westerners, while Western coffee has been gradually accepted by more and more Easterners. In the big cities of China, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, cafes are decorated with urban customs and become fashionable consumption elements. in recent years, China's coffee consumption market has increased by 1. 5% every year.

Coffee in the west, tea in the east. As Eastern and Western cultures blend with each other, Eastern tea culture has long been integrated into Western life, while Western coffee is gradually accepted by more Orientals.

In China, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou these big cities, cafes decorate the urban style, become fashionable consumption elements

In recent years, China's coffee consumption market has been growing at a rate of 10% to 15% per year. Not only consumption, but also the development of coffee cultivation in China has attracted more and more attention from the world. The best growing environment for coffee is low latitude, high altitude, sufficient rainfall and suitable sunshine, so the ideal growing zone for coffee is between 15 degrees north latitude and the Tropic of Cancer. Brazil is known as the traditional coffee producing area, known as the "coffee kingdom" said. In China, Pu 'er, a millennium tea town in Yunnan Province, is now known as the coffee capital of China. Pu 'er belongs to low latitude and middle altitude area, which is the golden area for coffee planting. It is located in the same latitude area as Colombia, the world famous coffee planting area, and has natural conditions and advantages for developing coffee industry.

From 1988, Nestle took the lead in planting coffee in Yunnan Province. By 2011, the coffee planting area of Yunnan Province exceeded 860,000 mu, and the output exceeded 55,000 tons, with a year-on-year increase of 33.06% and 11.33% respectively. The planting area and output accounted for more than 98% of the country's total, and the export volume accounted for more than 95% of the country's total. Coffee planting has transformed once-poor villages. In Dakaihe Village, Pu 'er City, the whole village is surrounded by lush tea gardens and coffee gardens, and two-story buildings built of marble tiles on both sides of the village road can be seen everywhere.