The spread and Development of Coffee in China-papers on Coffee

The Spread and Development of Coffee in China-Papers on Coffee

For Chinese, for a long time,"coffee" and "instant coffee" were interchangeable terms. It wasn't until Starbucks in the United States and tea houses in Hong Kong that people began to realize that coffee wasn't instant coffee, but something else. What is it? It's fashion. It is abstract painting, jazz music and aggressive coffee fragrance in Starbucks; it is a drink mixed with Chinese and Western tastes such as "mandarin duck" in tea restaurant, which is served in exquisite white porcelain dish and served by waiter. The former, because it is more exotic and fashionable, has become another synonym for coffee after "instant coffee".

Coffee was introduced into China for a short time, and it was not until 1884 that coffee was first successfully planted in Taiwan. On the mainland, the earliest coffee cultivation began in Yunnan. At the beginning of the 20th century, French missionaries brought the first coffee seedlings to Binchuan County in Yunnan Province, and coffee began to be planted on the mainland.

In terms of natural conditions, many areas of our country are very close to Latin America, South America, India, Indonesia and other places, and have inherent conditions for coffee cultivation. However, Chinese people have a history of drinking tea for thousands of years. As the origin of tea in the world, people have more or less a kind of resistance to coffee in consumption habits and concepts. Therefore, coffee cultivation has not received enough attention for a long time after coffee was introduced into China, and its expansion is extremely slow.

Until recent years, with the impact of foreign culture and lifestyle, people's drinks have become increasingly diversified, coffee has entered the lives of ordinary people more, and coffee cultivation has gradually developed. Coffee consumption in China is rising year by year, forming a huge potential consumer market.

The huge potential of China's coffee market cannot be ignored. Some internationally renowned coffee companies have chosen Shanghai as their production base to adopt long-term strategies to expand the Chinese market. Meanwhile, China is actively cultivating its own coffee growing base. Yunnan Province and Colombia coffee planting areas are very close geographical location, Simao, Lincang, Dehong, Baoshan and other areas have begun to develop coffee cultivation, the quality of Arabica coffee produced by the International Coffee Organization fully affirmed. Industry insiders expect that in the near future, these regions will make up for China's gaps in the world coffee growing map.