Yunnan launches dedicated coffee train to export to Europe

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Yunnan launches dedicated coffee train to export to Europe

Updated: 2015-07-03 By Ge Jieru ( chinadaily.com.cn ）

A container train service carrying 2,050 tons of coffee beans and other coffee-related products to Europe set out from Southwest China's Yunnan province on July 1. The journey has been hailed as a significant milestone in Yunnan's coffee industry's export stage.

Holding 34 containers of coffee beans and 66 containers of instant coffee products, the train started its journey from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, and is expected to arrive in Rotterdam 15 days later.

"Before the train service became available, Yunnan's coffee entered Europe by sea transportation, which would take at least 30 days," said Xiong Xiangren, president of Dehong Hougu Coffee Ltd.

The train's route will see it pass through Chengdu, Baoji, Lanzhou in China, before crossing the border at the Alataw Pass in Xinjiang and entering Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany and arriving in the Netherlands.

"The train service is significant to Yunnan’s railway coffee industries," said Hu Lu, vice secretary of the Yunnan Coffee Industry Association.

Coffee is the third largest export product in Yunnan in terms of volume, after vegetables and tobacco. In 2014, the export of Yunnan coffee amounted to 67,200 tons.

Edited by Jacob Hooson

Yunnan launches dedicated coffee train to export to Europe

 

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How is Yunnan coffee's taste?

 

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The new cargo service is expected to ship 300000 tonnes of Yunnan coffee to Europe by 2017。

Yunnan Starts to Export Coffee to Europe by Train

2015-07-02 20:33:24 CRIENGLISH.com Web Editor: Wang

The photo taken on July 1st, 2015, shows the first cargo train carrying 2 thousand tons of Yunnan coffee is setting off from Yunnan's capital city Kunming to the Dutch port city of Rotterdam. [Photo: ynxxb.com]

A new cargo train service has been launched out of Yunnan to help facilitate the province's coffee trade with Europe.

The first train carrying over 2 thousand tons of Yunnan coffee is now on its way to the Dutch port city of Rotterdam.

Two return trips of the train will take place every month.

The trips themselves will take 15-days, and will pass over the Chinese border from Xinjiang into Kazakhstan before traveling through Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany to finally arrive in the Netherlands.

It's expected the new cargo service will ship around 24-thousand tonnes of Yunnan coffee to Europe this year.

Virtually all of the coffee grown in China comes from Yunnan.

Around 70-thousand tonnes of coffee was exported from Yunnan last year.

Yunnan Starts to Export Coffee to Europe by Train

How is Yunnan coffee's taste?

Obviously good enough for European palate，for Yunnan has been selling its coffee to Europe for years。

 

[AndrewJin]

How is Yunnan coffee's taste?

Yunnan coffee is very good.
I will travel to Yunnan next week for the fourth time.

 

[TaiShang]

Isn't Yunnan also famous for its tea?

Yunnan, Chinese province famous for tea, now looks to coffee | South China Morning Post

 

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Isn't Yunnan also famous for its tea?

Yunnan, Chinese province famous for tea, now looks to coffee | South China Morning Post

Yunnan is known for a lot of things，among which is the high quality rice grown in terraced fileds：

 

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Isn't Yunnan also famous for its tea?

Yunnan, Chinese province famous for tea, now looks to coffee | South China Morning Post

And there are five UNESCO world heritage sites in Yunnan, one of the top tourism provinces.

 

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And there are five UNESCO world heritage sites in Yunnan, one of the top tourism provinces.

 

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Yunnan – UNESCO World Heritage Sites

August 29, 2013

In the one Chinese province of Yunnan alone we’ve found five UNESCO World Heritage sites; 3 natural, 2 cultural plus an additional location on the tentative list. Indeed the fact that China already has over forty inscribed sites with an equal number on the ‘Tentative’ list just emphasizes the total futility of trying to ‘do’ the vast country in a single trip.


Rice terraces
A brand new entry – only inscribed in 2013 and a personal favourite are the incredible rice terraces of the Ailao Mountains – officially the Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces. These spectacular terraces have been created by the local Hani, (and Yi?), ethnic group in the hills to the south of the Red River over the past 1,500 years. Up until now the area was little known and rarely visited by foreign tourists though since the total designated area covers some 1,000 sq kms it should be able to absorb any new influx without too many problems. On our Yunnan tours we visit Yuanyang town which combines some of the most picturesque and accessible terrace sites with the fascinating hill-tribe market town itself.


Hani women in Yuangyang
The other, much better known, cultural site is the old town of Lijiang in the northern part of the province. The superb ancient wooden houses, cobbled streets, tiny bridges and streams of the old town have been miraculously spared from both earthquakes and development and are a delight to explore.


Early morning, Lijiang
The region of Dali, another ancient town and former capital of the Nanzhao kingdom, including the picturesque Lake Erhai and nearby ancient towns such as Weishan is on the tentative list and a great addition it would make too. Dali is firmly on the tourist map but beautifully preserved Weishan for example is practically never visited.


Old houses in Weishan’s main street
Yunnan’s natural heritage sites include the famous ‘Stone Forest‘ near Kunming – the best known section of UNESCO’s South China Karst entry. Yes the entrance area can get very crowded with local tourists but they rarely venture far and it’s very easy to plenty of quiet routes through the surreal landscape.


Kunming, ‘Stone Forest’
Very different but equally spectacular is the Three Parallel Rivers Protected Area in northern Yunnan with the three in question being the Yangtze, Mekong and Salween, (known locally as the Jinsha, Lancang and Nu Jiang). At this point the famous rivers run close together through deep and, yes, parallel, gorges making for some dramatic scenery as well as possessing a hinterland of unique and high biodiversity.


The famous ‘First Bend of the Yangtze’ viewpoint

Back to Kunming for the third site, the Chengjiang Fossil Site a few kms out of the city. Whilst a worthy site it is perhaps of limited interest to the casual observer and far more fun for the average tourist is the Lufeng Dinosaur Museum to the west of Kunming City.

Not bad for just one province!

 

[AndrewJin]

Yunnan – UNESCO World Heritage Sites

August 29, 2013

In the one Chinese province of Yunnan alone we’ve found five UNESCO World Heritage sites; 3 natural, 2 cultural plus an additional location on the tentative list. Indeed the fact that China already has over forty inscribed sites with an equal number on the ‘Tentative’ list just emphasizes the total futility of trying to ‘do’ the vast country in a single trip.


Rice terraces
A brand new entry – only inscribed in 2013 and a personal favourite are the incredible rice terraces of the Ailao Mountains – officially the Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces. These spectacular terraces have been created by the local Hani, (and Yi?), ethnic group in the hills to the south of the Red River over the past 1,500 years. Up until now the area was little known and rarely visited by foreign tourists though since the total designated area covers some 1,000 sq kms it should be able to absorb any new influx without too many problems. On our Yunnan tours we visit Yuanyang town which combines some of the most picturesque and accessible terrace sites with the fascinating hill-tribe market town itself.


Hani women in Yuangyang
The other, much better known, cultural site is the old town of Lijiang in the northern part of the province. The superb ancient wooden houses, cobbled streets, tiny bridges and streams of the old town have been miraculously spared from both earthquakes and development and are a delight to explore.


Early morning, Lijiang
The region of Dali, another ancient town and former capital of the Nanzhao kingdom, including the picturesque Lake Erhai and nearby ancient towns such as Weishan is on the tentative list and a great addition it would make too. Dali is firmly on the tourist map but beautifully preserved Weishan for example is practically never visited.


Old houses in Weishan’s main street
Yunnan’s natural heritage sites include the famous ‘Stone Forest‘ near Kunming – the best known section of UNESCO’s South China Karst entry. Yes the entrance area can get very crowded with local tourists but they rarely venture far and it’s very easy to plenty of quiet routes through the surreal landscape.


Kunming, ‘Stone Forest’
Very different but equally spectacular is the Three Parallel Rivers Protected Area in northern Yunnan with the three in question being the Yangtze, Mekong and Salween, (known locally as the Jinsha, Lancang and Nu Jiang). At this point the famous rivers run close together through deep and, yes, parallel, gorges making for some dramatic scenery as well as possessing a hinterland of unique and high biodiversity.


The famous ‘First Bend of the Yangtze’ viewpoint

Back to Kunming for the third site, the Chengjiang Fossil Site a few kms out of the city. Whilst a worthy site it is perhaps of limited interest to the casual observer and far more fun for the average tourist is the Lufeng Dinosaur Museum to the west of Kunming City.

Not bad for just one province!

i have been to all except rice terraces.

 

[Jlaw]

Isn't Yunnan also famous for its tea?

Yunnan, Chinese province famous for tea, now looks to coffee | South China Morning Post[/QUO
Yes, love the pu-erh tea green tea.