The competition among coffee trading centers in Yunnan is more than one step behind.

Chongqing Coffee Trading Center officially opened on June 16, and signed contracts with Louis Dreyfus of France, Newman of Germany, Itochu of Japan, etc., committed to building China's largest electronic coffee trading platform, coffee (cross-border) e-commerce platform, coffee industry chain financing and credit platform, as well as China Coffee Exchange settlement Center and Coffee big data Center.

On July 6, 2015, the coffee trading center of Shanghai Free Trade Zone was unveiled. According to the plan, the trading center will promote the development of "coffee electronic trading platform" and "Internet +", and build an innovative development model of five major sectors, including "Zhongka.com" trading platform, coffee innovation finance, and coffee creation base. It aims to become the largest coffee trading market in Asia within three years.

On July 9, 2014, the Pu'er municipal government and Yunnan Jinyuan Flower Industry Co., Ltd. held a project signing ceremony and unveiling ceremony, announcing that the Yunnan Coffee Trading Center project was officially launched and settled in Pu'er. Only three days later, on July 12, Yunnan Coffee spot Trading Center (chip), jointly established by more than 20 coffee enterprises in the province, was listed in Kunming (later renamed "Kunming Coffee Trading Center").

It is not difficult to see that the competition in coffee trading centers has shown a white-hot trend. However, an embarrassment facing the Yunnan coffee industry is that Yunnan, which is the earliest to build and has two coffee trading centers, has "died"; the other is still in progress.

In this context, the call for the establishment of a coffee trading center is rising day by day. However, the phenomenon of Yunnan coffee going its own way has a long history. Therefore, only 3 days after Yunnan Coffee Trading Center was born, Kunming Coffee Trading Center was "impatient" to be set up.

"the biggest problem with Yunnan coffee is the lack of unity, the market is so big, but also a mess." After nearly 2 years of preparation, Shu Yang, general manager of Yunnan Coffee Trading Center, issued such a feeling. In his view, the emergence of the coffee trading center is not one more "faction", but to build a public service platform, but it is obviously more than that in Yunnan.

As confused as Shu Yang is Hu Lu, vice president of the Yunnan Coffee Industry Association. He, who participated in the preparation for the establishment of the Kunming Coffee Trading Center, could not figure it out. Although Kunming's traffic conditions, location, talent, capital, and storage climate conditions are better than Pu'er, it has been unable to get a "birth permit" and can only come to nothing in the end.

At the same time of the "internal friction" in Yunnan, Shanghai, which is far away at the end of the Yangtze River, obviously smelled the huge business opportunities contained in the coffee trading center, and it was announced in November 2014 that the coffee trading center in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone was planned to be established in July the following year.

At the same time, Hougu Coffee, which was frustrated in its plans to build a coffee trading center in Kunming, began to make a detour to Chongqing, working with Chongqing Neng Investment Group to build a Chongqing coffee trading center. In March this year, Chongqing Coffee Trading Center was registered in Liangjiang New area of Chongqing, with a registered capital of 100 million yuan. In June, Chongqing Coffee Trading Center officially opened, high-profile announced to build China's largest coffee electronic trading platform, coffee (cross-border) e-commerce platform, coffee industry chain financing credit platform, as well as China Coffee Exchange settlement Center and Coffee big data Center.

The approval of Chongqing Finance Office also gives the policy basis for the operation of Chongqing Coffee Trading Center.

"in addition to location advantages and policy advantages, Chongqing also has a solid foundation and rich experience in the construction of factor markets." According to Feng Yue, chairman of Chongqing Neng Investment Group, in terms of production, although Chongqing does not have the natural conditions for coffee cultivation, in terms of processing, Chongqing has logistics and policy conditions that Yunnan does not have. Chongqing Coffee Trading Center will play the function of gathering and radiation to promote the development of the coffee industry locally.

Xiong Xiangjin, chairman of Hougu Coffee and Chongqing Coffee Trading Center Co., Ltd., also believes that compared with Yunnan, Chongqing has more obvious advantages in location, policy, and factor market construction, and is also better in logistics, information, services, and so on. "with these advantages, Chongqing Coffee Trading Center can give full play to its logistics and economic support for coffee trade, with Chongqing as the core, closely connecting Yunnan, Southeast Asia and other major Asian coffee producing areas with European markets, and becoming an important distribution center for coffee logistics." Reporter Yin Lei reports