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The scene of premium coffee in China was dominated long by Starbucks in China with greater than 80 percent of the market in the year 2017. Starbucks had the market of China mostly since its first store was opened in the year 1999 in the nation. An explosion in the bigger cities of coffee-drinking was witnessed by China which was a nation of tea-drinking traditionally. The size of market of shops of specialist coffee has increased in China to $4.5 billion and there is an expectation that it will reach 50 percent by the year 2022 (Xiao & Lin, 2018).