2026年云南省咖啡加工工职业技能大赛暨产业对接活动在昆举行

Brief (coffeeyo.com): On September 21, the 2026 Yunnan Coffee Processing Vocational Skills Competition opened at Yunnan Agricultural University, paired with an industry matchmaking session — merging skills contests with production-sales docking to build the talent base behind “Yunnan coffee.”

Kunming, CNR News, September 22 (reporter Zhao Beibei) — On the morning of September 21, the 2026 Yunnan Coffee Processing Vocational Skills Competition, together with the “Revitalizing Agriculture Through Matchmaking · Specialty Industry Tour” Yunnan coffee industry special matchmaking event, opened at Yunnan Agricultural University. Themed “Fragrant Yunnan Coffee, Extraordinary Craft,” it is a provincial vocational-skills competition of high specification, broad coverage, and strong authority in Yunnan’s coffee sector, and a landmark effort through which the province implements the national “Revitalizing Agriculture Through Matchmaking” deployment, empowers high-plateau characteristic modern agriculture, and advances rural-industry revitalization via the twin engines of talent and finance.

According to introductions, the event integrates vocational-skills competition with Revitalizing-Agriculture matchmaking and production-sales docking — both an arena where front-line skilled workers hone and showcase their craft, and an industry-exchange platform linking government, enterprises, universities, and banks. It realizes the two-way effect of “competition cultivates talent, matchmaking revitalizes industry,” injecting fresh momentum into Yunnan coffee’s breakthrough development.

Wang Weibin, Party secretary of Yunnan Agricultural University, said the university has deep roots in coffee science and education, having built the country’s most complete coffee science and engineering talent pipeline from bachelor’s to doctoral levels and the nation’s only provincial modern coffee industry college. It has established the world’s first specialized microbial strain resource bank for coffee fermentation and led the development and release of “Coffee Flavor Atlas” V1.0, breaking foreign monopolies on coffee flavor evaluation. Hosting this event is a pragmatic attempt to translate the university’s disciplinary and research accumulation into service for local industry, and a valuable opportunity to tell China’s coffee story alongside all sectors of society.

This competition drew contestants through layered selection from 11 prefectures and cities across the province, gathering 37 front-line backbone contestants, each with over three years in coffee-processing roles, solid professional grounding, and rich hands-on experience, covering core coffee regions such as Pu’er, Baoshan, Lincang, and Dehong, and showcasing the top-tier practical skill level of Yunnan’s coffee-processing front line. The contest adopted the standard format of “theory exam plus practical assessment,” covering core modules such as industry norms, safe production, coffee fundamentals, roasting, blending, and sensory cupping, comprehensively testing contestants’ overall professional competence. On the floor, contestants operated by the book, controlled each step with precision, and vied in exquisite processing technique; the judging panel strictly and impartially reviewed per the rules, ensuring a fair, professional, authoritative, and orderly event.

In parallel, the “Revitalizing Agriculture Through Matchmaking · Specialty Industry Tour” Yunnan coffee industry special matchmaking was held. The event pooled quality resources from government, banking, enterprises, research, and the market, smoothed the supply-demand docking channel across the coffee full chain, and selected 16 provincial coffee enterprises to exhibit. Through concentrated product display, face-to-face negotiation, and precise supply-demand matching, it effectively lowered docking costs, smoothed Yunnan coffee’s production-sales circulation, and helped Yunnan’s specialty coffee go beyond the province and widen its national market.

This competition is a key pragmatic measure for Yunnan to consolidate the talent foundation of its coffee industry and drive its refinement and high-end development, building a high platform for the province’s coffee practitioners to “show their craft, benchmark standards, and demonstrate value” — making front-line artisans’ professional skill visible, and making the quality foundation of “Yunnan coffee” from field to cup more solid. The event will keep leveraging skilled talent as a leading goose, cultivating a batch of benchmark coffee-skill talents, driving the province’s coffee-processing craft toward standardized, refined upgrading, effectively shoring up the talent shortfall in deep processing, and building a solid talent base for high-quality industry development — vigorously improving Yunnan coffee’s quality and brand, striving to build a world-class “China Coffee” brand and a globally important coffee-producing region, and continuously empowering rural revitalization through high-quality specialty-industry development to steadily increase coffee farmers’ incomes.

Liang Miao, director of the Processing Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs’ Rural Industry Development Department; Lai Yiyong, vice director of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; Wang Weibin, Party secretary of Yunnan Agricultural University; Zhou Dawei, director of the Cross-Border Service Division of ICBC’s Head Office Inclusive Finance Department; Li Hong, member of the standing committee of the university Party committee and vice president; Zeng Shaoqun, vice president of ICBC Yunnan Branch; Xia Jianguang, vice president of the Agricultural Development Bank of China Yunnan Branch; Liao Feifei, general manager of ICBC Yunnan Branch’s Inclusive Finance Department, and other leaders attended the event.

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