Baoshan Drives High-Quality Coffee Industry Development Through Technological Innovation

At a Glance (China Coffee Network): According to Yunnan Release, in recent years Baoshan City has used science and technology projects as a driver, raising the technical level and market competitiveness of its coffee industry through a full-chain layout, innovation platforms, market-entity cultivation, and talent support. To date it has secured over RMB 40 million in higher-level fiscal science funding and launched 13 technology projects, injecting strong momentum into the sector.

Focusing on technology projects to build full-chain support. Baoshan has built a multi-tier project system of “provincial + paired-assistance + municipal” around the core links of planting, processing, and by-product utilization. At the provincial level it continues four ongoing projects and added three major provincial science special projects in 2025, targeting efficient cultivation and deep processing; under paired assistance it advanced a project from Shanghai’s Minhang District supporting firms’ R&D toward near-zero wastewater discharge; at the municipal level it approved ten projects tackling granular technical problems in planting and processing.

Building innovation platforms for solid hard-power support. Baoshan has constructed an innovation system of “industry-university-research collaboration + high-end platforms + startup incubation.” Through the Tengchong Scientists Forum it fostered school-enterprise cooperation, converting over ten results, with the “coffee cultivation large model” named among the forum’s top ten academic achievements of 2025. It also promoted the co-establishment of the “Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Coffee,” completing five core studies, and supported enterprises in building provincial “Star Creation Zones,” incubating over 20 startup projects and driving over RMB 3 million in enterprise innovation investment.

Cultivating innovation entities to strengthen industrial force. Across the city, 11 coffee firms are provincial-and-above leading enterprises and 11 are above-scale processors, together 42.3% of the province’s total. Through innovation and entrepreneurship contests, five firms reached the provincial finals, with Gaolaozhuang Coffee taking first prize and a provincial award of RMB 500,000.

Strengthening talent support to consolidate the foundation for development. Relying on academician-expert workstations and technology task-force service systems, Baoshan has cracked key technologies such as tissue-culture seedling propagation and peel-tea processing, and dispatched over 50 technical personnel to the front line to provide services, securing a talent base for sustainable industry growth.

Source: Yunnan Release (original: “Baoshan: Hoisting the Sail of Science, Sending the Coffee Aroma Farther”)

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