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BEVERAGES BRING BENEFITS

When people begin their day with a cup of Starbucks coffee in cosmopolitan Chinese cities like Shanghai, many are not aware that the coffee they consume may have traveled thousands of miles from Yunnan Province, a major producer of high-quality coffee beans.

The beans supplied to Starbucks in China are largely grown by Aini Garden, a subsidiary of the Yunnan-based Aini Group. In Pu’er City of Yunnan, Liu Minghui, the founder of Aini Garden operates a coffee farm which covers about 400 hectares and focuses on providing beans for coffee makers in China. The company signed a cooperation agreement with Starbucks in 2012 and has since been a supplier to the coffee chain.

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