From seed to cup! Free trade Yantai promotes the accelerated integration of the coffee industry chain

China Shandong Network - Perception Shandong, February 9 (Correspondent Wang Cong Wang Hao) Recently, the first batch of 19200kg of green coffee beans from Ethiopia, after entering the western area of Yantai Comprehensive Bonded Zone located in Yantai Development Zone, was sent to Beijing, Shanghai and other places after entering the western area of Yantai Comprehensive Bonded Zone, marking the smooth development of the first vote of coffee bean bonded business in Yantai. In the aroma, cups of coffee are accumulating huge energy, and also bringing overseas coffee beans to "take root and sprout" in Yantai.

Ethiopia is the world's fifth-largest coffee producer, with large and high-quality coffee exports, and coffee varieties such as Arabica come from the country. With the help of domestic coffee brand promotion and platform spillover effect, the originally lonely Andromed Ethiopian coffee beans counterattacked into a net red coffee bean with amazing sales.

Zhongyun Jiuzhou (Shandong) E-commerce Co., Ltd., located in the Yantai area of the free trade zone, seized the opportunity to vigorously promote the country's direct coffee procurement business. Taking the global coffee origin country/region as the starting point, and striving to serve the traditional and emerging coffee consumption market, taking the raw materials of coffee raw beans as the core product, through independent research and development of the Internet B2B platform, open up the spot product supply and information docking of the coffee origin country for the coffee consuming country, forming a model of ethiopian green bean import, offline and online synchronous sales.

"The West District of the Comprehensive Free Trade Zone supports industrial innovation and economic development with high-quality and efficient service concepts, providing us with a high-quality business environment, from company site selection to registration license application, all of which ensure the operation and stable development of enterprises with accurate and sustainable service mechanisms." Lin Jiqiang, chairman of China Transport Kyushu, said that the government and enterprises are highly compatible in the concept of innovative development, jointly helping to promote the development of the lifestyle industry, and can also bring more industrial innovation vitality to the comprehensive insurance area.

Since the official acceptance in July 2021, yantai comprehensive insurance zone in addition to the bonded function policy of the original bonded port area, continue to superimpose the function of domestic trade circulation link, can carry out overseas procurement, distribution and sales, export commodity warehousing, consolidation, distribution and distribution business in both international and domestic markets. At present, the park has the location advantage of radiating the entire inland area, the increasingly perfect water, land and air transportation advantages and the increasing level of local consumption, which are constantly improving the level of trade facilitation and the efficiency of logistics hub use. At the same time, superimposed preferential policies for free trade zones and development zones, and implemented the 21 measures of the State Council on promoting the high-quality development of the comprehensive insurance zone, at present, the west area of the comprehensive insurance zone is continuing to promote the development of bonded maintenance, bonded display, bonded research and development, cross-border e-commerce and other characteristic industries.

Taking the completed bonded coffee bean business as an example, as one of the characteristic industries, the western district of Yantai Comprehensive Free Trade Zone is based on improving the level of the industrial chain, through key tracking, accurate breakthroughs and other ways to introduce high-quality projects, with the help of location transportation, functional carriers and other advantages, actively attract projects to settle in, accelerate the layout of the coffee industry chain, and has now established a close cooperation relationship with suppliers of major coffee bean producing countries such as Brazil, Ethiopia, and Indonesia. Reached a cooperation intention with well-known domestic enterprises on the production and operation of high-end coffee such as coffee liquid extraction.

In the future, with the help of the preferential policies of the comprehensive bonded zone, the park will expand the coffee and bean trade upwards, and build the park into a northern coffee and green bean trade distribution center; Extending the high-end manufacturing of coffee such as coffee extraction and freeze-dried coffee downwards, forming a whole chain of coffee production and operation integrating coffee production, raw material supply, bar equipment and equipment sales, technical consulting services, post-installation and maintenance, and barista training, and completing the whole process of coffee production from seed to cup in Yantai Development Zone, further promoting the accelerated integration of the whole coffee industry chain.