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In search of Yunnan’s coffee aroma
寻一抹云南咖香
By People’s Daily
The authors of this article, Prakash Bikram Shan and Gya-
nendra Khadkha, are respectively the editor of the Anumodan
National Daily of Nepal and the coordinator with nepalkhabar.
com. They have attended a training course on Coffee Planting
and Processing Technology for Developing Countries in Yunnan.
During their visit to Xinzhai Village in Baoshan City, they gained
a new understanding of Yunnan’s coffee.
本文作者比克拉姆·萨哈·帕拉卡什和卡德哈·吉安德拉分别为尼
泊尔《阿努莫丹国家日报》编辑、尼泊尔 nepalkhabar 网站协调员，
他们曾来到云南参加发展中国家咖啡种植与加工技术培训班，在保山市
新寨村，他们对云南咖啡有了新的认识。
□ 人民日报
arly in the morning, sunlight pen- Nepali villages with similar topography to
etrated the clouds and sprinkled Xinzhai that are becoming deserted due to
on Xinzhai Village along the population loss. With strong curiosity about
ENujiang River, turning the more the transformation of Xinzhai Village, we
than 6,000 hectares of continuous coffee ventured deeper into the village to explore
trees a golden color. This village, located its development path.
in the Lujiangba area of Lujiang Township, Xinzhai Village has been enhancing the
Longyang District, Baoshan City, with an selection of coffee varieties and improving
average elevation of nearly 1,000 meters, seedling cultivation, widely applying in-
is the incorporated village with the largest telligent agricultural technology to elevate
coffee cultivation area in China. the level of coffee farming. The village has
Wang Jiawei, the Party secretary, greeted established digital infrastructure to cover
us at the village entrance. As the architect its alpine coffee fields with 5G signals, ena-
of Xinzhai Village’s development and the bling farmers to move their live broadcast-
leader of its coffee industry, Wang is affec- ing rooms from indoors to the mountains,
tionately referred to as the “coffee secre- thereby boosting coffee sales. With the
tary” by local coffee farmers. According to coffee economy and rural tourism advanc-
Wang, the Lujiangba area, where Xinzhai ing side by side, the profound coffee culture
Village is located, is the origin of Baoshan and the rich aroma of hand-brewed coffee
small-grain coffee with a history of half a in the village’s coffee experience pavilion
century cultivating coffee. Thanks to the make visitors linger.
abundant sunlight and the typical dry and In our opinion, Xinzhai Village, which
hot river valley climate, the small-grain has broadened its path to prosperity through
coffee produced here is strong but not bit- the transformation of the coffee industry,
ter, aromatic but not pungent, and features is a microcosm of the comprehensive revi-
a slightly fruity tart taste, thus enjoying a
talization of China’s countryside. Over the
good reputation internationally. years, we have visited many places in China
In the coffee plantation of Xinzhai Vil- and witnessed numerous beautiful examples
lage, once a poverty-stricken village, the of rural revitalization. China’s experience
coffee trees are lush, and the farmers are in this aspect provides valuable references
busy working. In the simple yet exquisite for the development of Nepali villages. In
coffee manor halfway up the mountainside, the future, we plan to visit more villages
many tourists have come for sightseeing. in China and bring the knowledge we gain
The village’s asphalt roads, which reach back to Nepal, in hopes of helping more
every household, are clean and smooth. Nepali farmers achieve happy and prosper-
This immediately reminded us of many ous lives.
Read more:
Yunnan is China’s
largest coffee-growing
province, producing over
98 percent of the coun-
try’s coffee. The main
coffee production areas
in the province are lo-
cated in Pu’er, Baoshan,
Dehong, Lincang, and
Xishuangbanna.