ANN/THE CHINA DAILY – A festival celebrating coffee kicked off in Kunming, Yunnan province, on Sunday, attracting 140 coffee brands.
Yunnan, a main coffee-producing area in China, has seen its coffee industry rise in recent years. The province’s coffee planting area reached 93,333 hectares last year, official data showed.
The planting area, output and output value accounted for over 98 per cent of the country, according to the Coffee Engineering Research Center of China. Moreover, the planting area and output accounted for 0.82 per cent and 1.08 per cent, respectively, in the world.
The province’s coffee bean export hit 18,000 tonnes in July, increasing 2.3 times from a year earlier, according to official data.
China’s coffee market size exceeded CNY387 billion (USD57.24 billion) in 2021, ranking eighth worldwide. The figure is expected to cross CNY1 trillion in 2025 and CNY2 trillion in 2030.
