Shanghai had over 9,500 cafes in 2023

SHANGHAI, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai continues to be the city with the most cafes in China, with 9,553 coffee shops by the end of 2023, according to a report on China's urban coffee development released on Wednesday.

The report, published during the opening ceremony of the Shanghai International Coffee Culture Festival, noted that the scale of China's coffee industry was 265.4 billion yuan (about 37.3 billion U.