中国のコーヒー拠点、雲南省

中国でワイン、コーヒーなど欧米の飲料のメーカーが、買収・増産による供給能力の拡大を急いでいる。経済成長に伴い、一般家庭でも食卓で海外の飲料を楽しむ余裕が出てきたためだ。現時点では１人当たりの消費量は世界平均に比べ格段に低く、市場が拡大する余地は大きい。

コーヒー文化も都市部で浸透してきた。コーヒー製造最大手の後谷珈琲（雲南省）は４億６３００万元を投じ、雲南省に国内最大のインスタントコーヒー製造ラインを完成させた。年間１万トン以上を生産する。国際コーヒー機関（IOC、本部ロンドン）によると、中国のコーヒー消費量は年率１５％で増加。世界平均の２％を大きく上回っている。

ニュージーランドの乳牛最大手のフォンテラは７月、河北省で中国３カ所目の農場に着工した。投資額は２億６千万元。中国での牛乳生産能力は４５％増え、年間９千万リットルとなる。日経より。

昔のブログを思い出す。スターバックスのボス、ハワード・シュルツが雲南省に訪れていた。このサイトでも「中国のコーヒー拠点は雲南省」だと。近い将来、中国産のコーヒーを味わう日が来そうです。

"Boy,10, hangs himself with scarf" from South China Morning Post

"YUNNAN- A 10-year-old boy hanged himself with a red scarf at his Kunming home on Wednesday after being punished at school, Yunnan.cn reports. His mother said he was asked to copy seven pages of his textbook by his teacher at lunchtime on Wednesday and had not been able to go home for lunch. He committed suicide after returning home after school. The school said the boy was a good pupil who had won awards in several competitions."

"3b yuan boost for coffee industry" from South China Morning Post

"Yunnan province plans to invest 3 billion yuan (HK$3.5 billion) in boosting its coffee industry in the coming decade, Xiong Xiangru, head of the Coffee Association of Yunnan, said yesterday. Most of the money will be used to improve soil quality, build research centres and increase training programmes."

"Woman held over fake banknotes" from South China Morning Post

"YUNNAN- Yuxi police have arrested a woman for the province's biggest counterfeit banknote case, Xinhuanet.com reports. Police said the woman paid 100,000 yuan in Guangzhou for high-quality fake banknotes with a total face value of more than four million yuan. Police detained the woman on December 2 as she drove back into the province with the fake notes." 

"Coffee revolution hits the home of China's finest tea" from South China Morning Post

"But times are changing and Kui Wenshu is among a pioneering group of farmers who have chopped down the orange trees in their orchards to plant coffee."


"Earlier this month, she and about a dozen other coffee farmers in the village were introduced to Howard Schultz, founding president and chief executive of the US-based coffee chain Starbucks, during his trip to the province. The company plans to build a farm in Pu'er and will hire and train local farmers to grow coffee.

"To be honest, we never heard of Starbucks before, but everyone feels this is a big opportunity," said 30-years-old Kui."


"Last year, Chinese peope drank nearly 50,000 tons of coffee, compared with 200,000 tons of tea.

Coffee was introduced into modern China by Swiss-based coffee maker Nestle in the 1980s. For many years, it was seen by most Chinese as a high-class gift for friends rather than a daily beverage of personal choice."

"Renowned library serves as focal point for China studies" from South China Morning Post

"Hong Kong has stood at the international forefront of research on China for more than four decades, thanks largely to the Universities Service Centre for China Studies.

The two-storey library at Chinese University boasts one of the most extensive and accessible collections of materials on contemporary China, with holdings that include more than 250 provincial and national newspapers and nearly 1,500 periodicals going back to the early 1950s.

The centre has produced the most authoritative archive on the Cultural Revolution - a CD-ROM released in 2002. Its 35 million words include mainland newspaper reports, speeches of Communist Party leaders and leaflets published by Red Guards during the political upheavals."


"Wang said more than 60 per cent of the centre's current clients are scholars from the mainland. The centre sponsors up to 40 mainland academics each year on short visits, he said, particularly researchers from far-flung provinces such as Yunnan."

"After serving coffee around the world for 39 years, Starbucks plans to start growing its own." from South China Morning Post

"And the location for its global farm will be in Puer city in Yunnan province, which is better known for its tea."

"It would also establish a coffee development centre, a coffee farmer support centre and coffee processing facilities. The initiatives would complete Starbucks entire value-chain-from seed to cup - in China."

"Yunnan is one of the best places in China for coffee, especially the high-quality Arabica beans, thanks to its warm, mild and wet weather. China produces around 40,000 to 50,000 tonnes of coffee beans a year, with more than 90 per cent of it coming from Yunnan.

Under the agreement, Starbucks will operate the base farm and the farmer support centre, its first in Asia and third globally following Costa Rica and Rwanda."

"Starbucks is the latest in a series of major foreign corporates to invest in the province: Nestle arrived in Yunnan more than a decade ago, offering training to farmers and purchasing around 3,000 to 5,000 tonnes of coffee beans annually, and brands like Maxwell and Kraft Food also buy Yunnan coffee."