On 6 October 2026 local time, Counsellor Ssempa Mwesige Bernadette of the Ugandan Embassy in China visited Mainland Group Uganda Company for research and exchanges. Tan Wang, Deputy General Manager and President of East Africa Region of Mainland Group, led the project team in receiving her.

During the site visit, the project team briefed Counsellor Ssempa Mwesige Bernadette on the Group’s medium- and long-term industrial layout in Uganda and the coffee whole-industry-chain project plan. Located in Masaka, a core Robusta coffee-producing area, the project's first phase will be a coffee hulling and grading factory with an annual processing capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year of Fair Average Quality (FAQ) parchment coffee, supported by storage facilities and raw material purchasing stations. The later phases will add washed and natural processing stations and company-owned coffee estates, creating a complete coffee industry chain integrating raw material sourcing, processing and grading, and brand operation.

Factory design and equipment selection are complete. Civil works are scheduled to start in 2027, targeting commissioning in August 2027. The project will process Robusta and Arabica coffee beans, establish a six-dimensional quality testing system, drive the development of local farmers, and improve Uganda’s coffee processing and export chain.

Counsellor Ssempa Mwesige Bernadette affirmed the project’s commitment to deep, localised industrial development and looked forward to its smooth implementation. She stated that the embassy would help the company connect with Ugandan government authorities and the investment authority to facilitate government-enterprise communication. She also encouraged the company to create local jobs, deepen integration with local industries, and advance practical China-Uganda agricultural and economic cooperation.

Tan Wang thanked the Counsellor for her visit and support. He said the team would follow up on the suggestions from this exchange, steadily advance the preparatory work, leverage the value of the industrial project, deeply integrate into the local community, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win outcomes.