From November 13 to 17, the 26th World Coffee Science Conference was held in Kunming, Yunnan Province. Nearly 60 countries and regions, more than 400 coffee industry experts and scholars with China's coffee producers, entrepreneurs and science and technology workers gathered together on coffee production and consumption and industrial development of scientific issues, sharing of coffee science and technology progress.

World Coffee Science Conference is the world's coffee industry's highest standard event, representing the industry's highest voice, has also been the world's coffee industry, "Olympic." The conference was hosted by the World Coffee Science and Information Association and the China Coffee Engineering Research Center. Ms. Nilig, President of the World Coffee Science Conference, and Dr. Zhang Yaping, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, respectively addressed the opening ceremony.

The conference was organized by the theme of "Sharing Coffee Science and Technology Progress", with the topics of coffee chemistry, coffee agriculture and biotechnology, agroecology and breeding of coffee, coffee consumption and human physiology, coffee genomics and genetics research, coffee baking and its technology Process and other conference topics, has held 14 special reports on academic role. The purpose of the conference is to evaluate and exchange innovative coffee science and technology knowledge, encourage coffee research in all relevant scientific fields, establish scientific and practical knowledge base, encourage and coordinate coffee industry chain research, improve coffee quality to seek coffee producers, traders , Processors and consumers of the common interests.

In China, the provinces of planting coffee in Yunnan, Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places. With the domestic coffee market and domestic coffee industry chain continues to mature, Yunnan Province, has grown throughout the coffee plant Pu'er City, Baoshan City, 35 counties and counties, coffee planting area of 183 million mu, the total output of 132,000 tons, The country accounted for more than 95%, coffee has become the third largest export of Yunnan Plateau characteristics of goods.