Xiamen builds 'bean-to-cup' coffee ecosystem
Xiamen hosts over 1,000 coffee businesses
The Luckin Coffee. [Photo/Xiamen Daily]
Xiamen has nurtured nationally renowned coffee enterprise Luckin Coffee and is home to over 1,000 coffee-related businesses. On the consumer platform Ele.me, Xiamen once ranked fourth nationwide in terms of coffee consumer population ratio. According to Dianping.com, Xiamen has among the highest density of coffee shops of any Chinese city.
In the coffee industry sector, Xiamen has established a complete industrial chain ecosystem encompassing "raw bean trade - roasting processing - equipment manufacturing - consumer retail".
The city continues to step up investment promotion across this industrial chain while expanding into "coffee + exhibitions", "coffee + culture and tourism", and "coffee + consumption" models. During the China International Fair for Investment and Trade, Xiamen will organize international coffee festival activities, building itself into a specialty coffee capital with global influence.
Why Xiamen
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Xiamen is one of the most economically competitive cities in China and was one of the first Special Economic Zones on the Chinese mainland. As a vice-provincial city independently listed on the State development plan, it has provincial-level authority in economic administration and local legislative power. In 2010, the Xiamen SEZ was expanded to cover the entire municipality. Today, Xiamen is a modern and international port city.