At a Glance (China Coffee Network): On September 24, in Tianzhai Village beside Wanfeng Lake in Nanpanjiang Town, Xingyi City, Qianxinan Prefecture, coffee leaves rustled in the wind across 160 mu of the Guizhou Qia…
On September 24, in Tianzhai Village beside Wanfeng Lake in Nanpanjiang Town, Xingyi City, Qianxinan Prefecture, coffee leaves rustled in the wind across 160 mu of the Guizhou Qianxing Ruifeng Xingyi Tonggu Lake Coffee planting base. Part the branches and green coffee cherries hang thick on the boughs, firm and glossy, slowly turning red. Here, Guizhou’s first large-scale harvest of its own coffee beans is taking shape.
The coffee cherries are turning from green to red. (Photo / Kuang Qiran)
“Guizhou has grown coffee before, but most of it was neglected; even when fruit set, nobody harvested it, and in the end the plantings were abandoned — a commercial product never formed,” explained Hao Xingqian, a researcher at the Qianxinan Prefecture Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences. This orchard beside Wanfeng Lake counts as Guizhou’s first genuinely planned, genuinely large-scale exploration of coffee.
Long Yihong is one of the project’s initiators and also the owner of the “One Field One” coffee guesthouse in Wanfenglin. Out of love for coffee he once went to Shanghai to learn roasting, returned to Xingyi to open a café and run a guesthouse, and even went to Jingdezhen to study handmade ceramics and make his own coffee vessels. Seeing “village cafés” blossom all over Wanfenglin while the beans mostly came from Yunnan, an idea took root: could Guizhou soil grow its own coffee beans?
Base head Zhang Deyong and Long Yihong check how the coffee cherries are developing. (Photo / Kuang Qiran)
A worker weeds the base. (Photo / Kuang Qiran)
Beside Wanfeng Lake the elevation is 800–900 metres, with a large day-night temperature difference, ample sunshine and heavy dew morning and evening; the soil and latitude suit coffee growth. “The core is enough light, enough warmth, and no frost,” said Long Yihong. The team transferred more than 1,600 mu of land in its first phase, giving priority to a 160-mu trial planting base, choosing the disease-resistant Catimor varietal with seedlings brought in from Yunnan; once the trial succeeds, they will promote it vigorously. Green fruit is already on the branches, expected to redden and be harvested in October — Guizhou’s first batch of commercial coffee beans.
Where enterprises dare to experiment, research provides the floor. Last year the Qianxinan Prefecture Academy of Agricultural Sciences launched coffee introduction trials, setting up several elevation-gradient pilot sites in Xingyi, Ceheng and Wangmo to screen suitable varietals and work through cultivation models. Growth at many sites has been encouraging, and the academy’s experimental plants have also set fruit successfully. Research produced the techniques; enterprises put them into the fields. In June this year, more than 400 mu of coffee seedlings were planted at Jiuzhai along the Nanpan River as well.
An aerial view of the Guizhou Qianxing Ruifeng Xingyi Tonggu Lake Coffee planting base. (Photo / Kuang Qiran)
According to base head Zhang Deyong, the team has already connected with purchasing channels in Yunnan, so beans meeting quality standards can be sold outward, and in the longer term they want to build a “Guizhou origin” coffee brand. From the soaring popularity of village cafés in Wanfenglin to coffee orchards rising beside Wanfeng Lake, Xingyi’s coffee industry is extending its chain down into the soil. In future, visitors will not only drink pour-over beside the fields but also walk into a lakeside coffee orchard to follow the whole process from flowering and fruit set to harvest and processing, creating a brand-new “peak-forest tourism plus local coffee cultivation” experience.
“Each green cherry hanging on the branch carries the entirely new expectations of Guizhou’s coffee industry, and writes a new possibility for the industrial transformation of mountain villages,” Long Yihong said.
Reporter: Tianyan News / Kuang Qiran
Editor: Duan Yuanxing
Second review: Zhang Heng
Third review: Xu Shaoting
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