Coffee enters China for 122 years

It is recorded that coffee was first introduced and successfully planted in China's Taiwan region in 1884. While in 1992 a French missionary brought along a passel of coffee seedlings to Binchuan County in southwestern China's Yunnan province, where the coffee plants grew and multiplied well. Up till now there are still more than 30 plants blossoming and bearing fruits. Since the mid-1950s coffee has become an important cash crop in Simao, Banna, Wenshan, Baoshan, Dehong in Yunnan province.

Yunnan granule coffee tastes muddy but not bitter, flagrant but not spicy, mellow with slight acidity, and is regarded as one of the fine coffee types by experts from the International Coffee Organization.

Nowadays coffee bars emerge like bamboo shoots after a spring rain in not only big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, but also in cities of second and third class.

By People's Daily Online