Lines in front of a Heytea shop. [Photo/CGTN]

There are countless other tea shops and tea houses all over the country, and that's without mentioning that almost every family in China drinks tea at home.

China's consumption of tea is immeasurable. According to a research of USC US-China Institute, in China, the average person consumes 400 cups of tea per year. So it is unlikely that coffee can replace tea as the country's main drink any time soon.

And, according to analysis of China's coffee market by the SPR Coffee, Chinese people consume 5 cups of coffee per year, ranking 12th in a list of coffee consuming countries, one place after South Korea. But the analysis also claimed that China's coffee market contains boundless potential.

Actually as two different types of drink with different cultural backgrounds, coffee and tea are both irreplaceable.

The expanding coffee shops are not there to replace tea, but to provide people with another choice that they can use to enjoy life.