Coffee festival in Kunming attracts 140 brands

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 1.4 million mu (93,333 hectares) last year, official data showed.

The planting area, output and output value accounted for over 98 percent of the country, according to the Coffee Engineering Research Center of China. Moreover, the planting area and output accounted for 0.82 percent and 1.08 percent, respectively, in the world.

The province's coffee bean export hit 18,000 tons in July, increasing 2.3 times from a year earlier, according to official data.

China's coffee market size exceeded 387 billion yuan ($57.24 billion) in 2021, ranking eighth worldwide. The figure is expected to cross 1 trillion yuan in 2025 and 2 trillion yuan in 2030.