On August 1st, 2026 Dianchi International Coffee Culture Carnival officially kicked off in Kunming. This event will last until August 9th, innovatively adopting the "East West Coast Dual Main Venue+Eight Special Sub venues" city wide linkage mode, integrating the boutique coffee industry, cross-border cultural exchange, trendy performing arts, and lakeside leisure experience, achieving deep integration of coffee, cultural tourism, art, fashion, and industry, and continuously polishing Kunming's new business card of trendy cultural tourism.
As an important carrier of Kunming's opening up to the outside world and the integration of culture and tourism, the Dianchi International Coffee Culture Carnival has been continuously cultivating the "Coffee+Dianchi Cultural Tourism" characteristic track since its establishment in 2024, gradually growing into a landmark coffee culture event with national influence facing South Asia and Southeast Asia, and becoming an important window to showcase "a life called Yunnan".
This carnival has rich content, diverse formats, and comprehensive coverage. During the event, citizens and tourists can immerse themselves in a variety of activities such as boutique coffee tasting, trendy markets, themed art exhibitions, and cultural performances, experiencing the rich coffee culture and charm of the Spring City lakeside in one stop. The synchronized launch of the "Enjoying Lakeside Spring City Roaming Landscape Flower City" Dian Feng Roaming Check in Activity and the newly launched "Dian Feng Roaming" Mini Program provide intelligent and convenient travel guidance for tourists, helping the public to deeply enjoy the carnival and experience the leisure life of spring city landscape.
This event continues to innovate scene formats and create a new paradigm of urban leisure that is sensory, playable, and sustainable. Create a unique mobile coffee block consisting of 200 coffee trucks on site, paired with all-weather music performances and themed trendy tribes, to create an immersive lakeside coffee lifestyle scene, transforming coffee culture from a single format to a normalized urban lifestyle of public participation and city wide sharing. During the event, the "Cloud South · Travel Platform" was officially launched, further improving Kunming's travel, health, leisure and vacation industry system. Actor Li Yapeng, as one of the first representatives of travel experience, shared on site the unique charm of Yunnan's livability, ease of travel, and ease of care.
One of the biggest highlights of this carnival is the introduction of the co creation section of the film and television industry for the first time, achieving a cross-border breakthrough of "coffee culture and tourism+film and television culture". At the opening ceremony, the creative team of the production teams of "Sweeping Black Iron Evidence" and "Persimmon Ruyi" collectively appeared by the Dianchi Lake, and the Kunming Film and Television Co Creation Conference was held simultaneously with the movie "Gui Xia", injecting film and television traffic and artistic vitality into the Spring City cultural tourism. At the same time, the original urban theme song "Spring City by the Lake" by coloratura soprano singer Chang Sisi was released live, interpreting the beauty of Dianchi Lake and the charm of the spring city with its melodious voice.
After three rounds of precipitation and upgrading, the Dianchi International Coffee Culture Carnival has evolved from a single cultural event to a comprehensive urban IP of "industry empowerment, urban quality improvement, cultural circulation, and public sharing". The event continues to extend the entire coffee industry chain, enrich the lakeside cultural and tourism industry, and broaden the city's external communication channels. It is a vivid practice for Kunming to explore the harmonious coexistence of "industry, city, people, and lake" and promote the deep integration of culture and tourism for high-quality development.
In the future, Kunming will continue to use coffee as a link, integrate lakeside resources, cultural resources, and industrial resources, continuously upgrade the Carnival brand level, and continuously create a new urban cultural and tourism scene that is youthful, trendy, and international. Let the coffee aroma and fireworks by the Dianchi Lake become the most enduring and moving urban background of the Spring City.
(Li Yingqing, reporter from China Daily Yunnan Reporter Station)
Source: China Daily website
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