Feature: Costa Rica aims to sell more coffee to China

A worker packages coffee powder at a plant of CoopeVictoria in Grecia, Costa Rica, on Oct. 31, 2018. CoopeVictoria, the first cooperative founded in Costa Rica some 75 years ago, gathers some 3,000 coffee producers who export their beans, both whole and ground, to different parts of the world, including recently China, though shipments to the Asian country have been fairly small. CoopeVictoria now plans to compete for a larger share of China's growing consumer market by attending the first ever China International Import Expo (CIIE) slated for Nov. 5-10 in Shanghai. (Xinhua/Esteban Dato)