Brief (coffeeyo.com): As the coffee guest-of-honor at the 2026 Yunnan Coffee Expo, Colombia selected seven quality local companies to exhibit — bringing premium Geisha beans, freeze-dried coffee and specialty-flavor products — and concurrently held the 2026 China-Colombia coffee-industry promotion, building a professional platform for technological exchange and trade matchmaking between the two countries’ coffee industries.
Kunming, September 19 (People’s Daily Online — reporter Liu Yi) The September air in Kunming is crisp and clear. From September 18 to 20, the 2026 Yunnan Coffee Expo was held at the Kunming Dianchi International Convention and Exhibition Center. Inside the hall, the aroma of coffee filled the air; in front of the Colombia booth, crowds gathered, as cup after cup of fine coffee from the Andes drew many visitors to stop and taste.
As the coffee guest-of-honor at this expo, Colombia selected seven quality local companies to exhibit, bringing premium Geisha beans, freeze-dried coffee, specialty-flavor coffee and other products, while concurrently holding the 2026 China-Colombia coffee-industry promotion, building a professional platform for technological exchange and trade matchmaking between the two countries’ coffee industries.
China and Colombia — one an emerging force rising on the global coffee map, the other a top-producing country with a century of heritage. The exchange window built in parallel at this Yunnan Coffee Expo is more than a clash of coffee-bean flavors; it is a deep dialogue between two industrial systems and two coffee cultures.
At the 2026 China-Colombia coffee-industry promotion held during the expo, government representatives, industry experts and coffee practitioners from both countries gathered to focus on technology empowerment, full-chain utilization and brand-culture integration, exploring practical cooperation in areas such as co-building coffee standards, deep processing and talent cultivation.
Colombia is the world’s largest exporter of washed arabica coffee. Relying on the unique natural conditions of the Andes, it has built a mature planting-protection system, strict quality-evaluation mechanism and market-oriented brand-operation model.
“Coffee is also an important bridge for global cooperation; many countries, including China, now attach growing importance to Colombian coffee,” said Danny Cruz, minister-counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Colombia in China, at the promotion. He noted that the coffee industry is promoting multi-field international cooperation, and that future coffee-industry collaboration in scientific research, cultural exchange and economic-trade cooperation should be strengthened to further expand space for cooperation in deep processing, logistics technology and e-commerce.
Oscar Felipe Rueda, commercial counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Colombia in China, brought a striking set of figures: from 2022 to 2025, China’s imports of Colombian coffee grew by about 105%, reaching 160 million US dollars in import value.
“The importance of the Chinese market keeps rising and has become one of the key emerging markets for Colombian coffee exports, while Colombia has also become China’s third-largest coffee supplier,” Oscar Felipe Rueda said. Against this backdrop, cooperation between Colombia and China in coffee continues to deepen, with both sides showing growing potential in trade, brand promotion and industry exchange. Going forward, Yunnan and Colombia can learn from each other, draw on each other’s strengths, and jointly deepen coffee-industry development.
Yunnan is China’s core coffee-producing region. After more than a century of accumulation, it has formed a complete industry chain from breeding, planting and refined fermentation to deep processing and cultural-creative development. “The next round of growth dividends in the coffee industry lies in Asia, and China is the core engine of global coffee-consumption potential,” said Li Hong, vice president of Yunnan Agricultural University and head of the Yunnan Provincial Coffee Industry Expert Group. “We welcome Colombian coffee and coffee from other major global producing regions into China, so domestic consumers can taste coffee flavors from around the world, and we also hope to use the exchange platform to bring Yunnan coffee to the world.”
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