Editor's note: In the spring city of May, the blue Jacaranda on Jiaochang Middle Road in Kunming City bloomed as scheduled, outlining a romantic urban flower corridor. During the May Day holiday, Wuhua District, relying on the cultural and tourism IP of Jacaranda, held the 2026 Jacaranda Yunnan Style Summer · Crazy Fruit "Burning" · "Cloud Fruit People" Storytelling Conference. The event invites representatives from the Yunguo industry to gather together, including researchers, entrepreneurial youth, marketing experts, and Yunguo cultural and creative experts, to discuss the industry's history and draw a development blueprint together. Today, let's step into the first "Yunguo Ren" storytelling event and listen to the cultivation and perseverance behind the industry.
The first event is based on Yunnan's unique high-altitude characteristic agricultural resources, focusing on the original intention of the "cloud fruit" industry. Five scientific research experts and young entrepreneurs who are deeply involved in the field of "cloud fruit" are invited to explore the development stories of core "cloud fruit" such as coffee, Australian nuts, and green pomelos, connecting the development process of the industry. Citizens and tourists can not only enjoy the flowers, but also listen to the touching stories of "cloud fruit" and feel the persistence and innovation of deep cultivation of high-altitude characteristic agriculture.
Guo Tieying, Associate Researcher at Dehong Tropical Agricultural Science Research Institute in Yunnan Province, talked about the continuous struggle of four generations of coffee enthusiasts spanning 60 years. Starting from primitive conditions, lack of information, and insufficient manpower in the early stages, Yunnan coffee has achieved a leap from scattered planting to boutique and branded cultivation, gradually moving from deep mountains to the whole country and spreading its fragrance at home and abroad, by gathering scientific research teams to overcome the problem of coffee rust disease and breeding high-quality local varieties such as "De Re 132".
The founder of DNA Coffee, Yu Mingzheng, discussed the development of the industry from the perspective of local coffee practitioners. He has been deeply involved in the coffee industry for many years and has been promoting Yunnan specialty coffee by offering training courses, helping Yunnan coffee to become popular.
Ma Shangxuan, assistant researcher at Yunnan Tropical Crop Science Research Institute, talked about the 45 year journey of localized introduction and cultivation of Australian nuts. He looked back at the story of how the research team had overcome numerous technical challenges such as variety selection, planting, fruiting, and maintenance since the introduction of this nut in 1981, and finally solved the bottleneck of localizing the cultivation of Australian nuts. A 'golden fruit' also witnesses the transformation and upgrading of Yunnan plateau characteristic agriculture from extensive planting to fine cultivation, from a single format to full chain development.
Zhao Dongxing, Associate Researcher at the Honghe Tropical Agricultural Science Research Institute in Yunnan Province, has summarized the ingenious stories of two generations of people who have been deeply involved in the breeding and industrial promotion of green pomelo varieties for more than 20 years. The team has traveled to the hot regions and surrounding production areas of Yunnan, extensively collected pomelo germplasm resources, devoted themselves to breeding independent new varieties, formulated standardized cultivation technology regulations, and promoted the growth of Yunnan pomelo from a niche fruit in the mountains to a popular characteristic "rich fruit" in the market.
Chen Yunsen, Deputy Director of the Public Engineering Design Office of Yunnan Agricultural Engineering Research and Design Institute, interpreted the supporting forces for the high-quality development of the "Yunguo" industry from a new perspective of Yunnan's industrial planning. For many years, every plan has been based on Yunnan's regional endowment and industrial demand, laying a solid hardware foundation for the industrialization, standardization, and large-scale development of high-altitude agricultural products such as coffee, nuts, and specialty fruits, and helping the Yunnan fruit industry improve quality, efficiency, transformation, and upgrading.
The vivid characters and the struggle process have condensed the development trajectory of the cloud fruit industry from small to large and from weak to strong. Next, the "Yunguo People's Story Conference" will invite industry representatives to share their stories on stage, continuously exploring the original intention stories, scientific research stories, and entrepreneurial stories behind the industry, showcasing the vigorous vitality of Yunnan's plateau characteristic agriculture in all aspects, telling the story of the "Cloud Products Out of Yunnan" era, and gathering momentum for rural revitalization and high-quality development of characteristic industries in the whole province. (Reporter Mou Yan and Hong Longyan from Yunnan Net)
【 Source: Kunming Information Port 】