New wine world from Asia. Development, regional comparison and opportunities for the wine industry in China

Abstract

Recently, China has become a huge wine consumer market as China had the fifth largest global wine consumption and the largest global red wine consumption in 2015 with most of the wine consumed (approximately 70%) being produced domestically. With the growing economy and technological advance, the Chinese domestic wine industry has seen significant development. The Chinese wine industry has flourished across the broad territory from the east costal area to the west desert area with distinct climatic and geographic conditions. Regarding with the fact that China had the second largest vineyard area (table grape, wine grape and dried grape) just after Spain and the world?s eighth largest wine production by volume in 2015, China has been an important wine producer as well