China's coffee industry booms amid opening up

KUNMING - Yang Hongjian, born in the 1990s, is building a coffee estate in his hometown in Pu'er city, Southwest China's Yunnan province.

Yang, whose grandfather and father were the earliest coffee farmers in Pu'er to engage in large-scale plantations, has had a profound interest in coffee plantation since childhood. He quitted his teaching job in 2020 and returned to his hometown to build the coffee estate.