Luckin Coffee's first Yunnan bean freight train arrives in Xiamen
A dedicated train for Luckin Coffee's Yunnan beans. [Photo/Xiamen Daily]
A dedicated train carrying Luckin Coffee's Yunnan beans arrived at Xiamen Qianchang Station on Jan 21, completing its journey of over 2,000 kilometers.
This marks the first direct coffee bean freight train from Yunnan to Xiamen, loaded with 682 metric tons of fresh raw beans across 22 carriages. After handover in Xiamen, the shipment will be transported to Luckin's roasting plants in Fujian for deep processing.
The launch of this dedicated train route has effectively connected Yunnan's coffee-producing regions with coastal processing bases in Southeast China and end consumer markets, creating an efficient "origin to production to consumption" link. This provides strong supply chain support for Luckin Coffee (Xiamen) Innovation Industrial Park and helps Xiamen in its goal of becoming an Asia-Pacific coffee logistics and distribution hub.
Led by the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Commerce, the city has formulated an action plan for coffee industry development, aiming to establish four major hubs: a national coffee headquarters cluster center, an international coffee trading center, a coffee production and processing center along the southeast coast, and a national coffee distribution and consumption center.
High-quality Yunnan coffee beans. [Photo/Xiamen Daily]
Why Xiamen
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Xiamen is one of the most economically competitive cities in China and was one of the first Special Economic Zones on the Chinese mainland. As a vice-provincial city independently listed on the State development plan, it has provincial-level authority in economic administration and local legislative power. In 2010, the Xiamen SEZ was expanded to cover the entire municipality. Today, Xiamen is a modern and international port city.