- When people begin their day with a cup of Starbucks coffee in cosmopolitan Chinese cities like Shanghai, many are not aware that the coffee they consume may have traveled thousands of miles from Yunnan Province, a major producer of high-quality coffee beans.
- In recent years, enterprises such as Aini have been working together with the local authorities to improve local farmers’ coffee-growing skills and to promote Yunnan coffee around China and internationally.
- Yunnan used to be a hub on the ancient Tea Horse Road in southwest China, through which caravans transported brick tea, which are blocks of compressed tea, out of Yunnan to trade for horses in today’s Tibet Autonomous Region during the 17th century.
Coffee and tea industries inject vitality into Yunnan Province
