LiLi Time is more than just a coffee shop brand; it is a social hub that connects goodwill through business and creates value through inclusion. Our company’s inclusive workforce includes young people with hearing impairments, autism, Down syndrome, and other intellectual disabilities.
LiLi Time believes that true inclusion means enabling everyone to be part of real communities, hold real jobs, and participate in real business settings—where they are seen, needed, and recognized within mainstream society.
LiLi Time believes that true inclusion means enabling everyone to be part of real communities, hold real jobs, and participate in real business settings—where they are seen, needed, and recognized within mainstream society.
By identifying talent, designing roles, providing support, and sharing results, we transform society’s goodwill into sustainable business orders and turn our partners’ talents into value that society can understand.
This is the “business for good” that LiLi Time practices: designing goodwill into our business model, using business to inspire the goodness in people’s hearts, and ensuring that every purchase and collaboration becomes a force that drives diversity, equality, and inclusion.
This is the “business for good” that LiLi Time practices: designing goodwill into our business model, using business to inspire the goodness in people’s hearts, and ensuring that every purchase and collaboration becomes a force that drives diversity, equality, and inclusion.
Five layers of professional validation demonstrate that LiLi Time’s integrated employment model is sustainable, replicable, and scalable.
When you choose LiLi Time, you’re not just supporting a vision—you’re choosing a business partner that has been repeatedly validated by global standards.
2019
Brand Founding
2020
Shanghai's Top 10 Annual Philanthropic Partner Companies
Public Cultural Spaces in the Yangtze River Delta; Cultural Spaces in Commercial Districts
Public Cultural Spaces in the Yangtze River Delta; Cultural Spaces in Commercial Districts
2021
Shanghai's First CSECC-Certified Chinese Social Enterprise Coffee Shop
2022
Mainland China’s first B Corp-certified coffee shop
Xiangguang Award for Socially Responsible Enterprises
Xiangguang Award for Socially Responsible Enterprises
2023
China’s first company to receive (IWBI) WELL Health Equity Certification
ELLE’s Sustainable Lifestyle Brand of the Year
Member of the “Micro-Observations on Models of Chinese Modernization” initiative
Harvard Business Review’s “Success Stories in the Chinese Good Business Series”
ELLE’s Sustainable Lifestyle Brand of the Year
Member of the “Micro-Observations on Models of Chinese Modernization” initiative
Harvard Business Review’s “Success Stories in the Chinese Good Business Series”
2024
Tsinghua Business Review Publishes “A Coffee Shop's Path to Shared Value”
2025
China's Top 100 Coffee Shops Guide: No. 41
2026
The China Management Case Center has included “Business for Good and Empowering Lives: LiLi Time Social Enterprise’s Advanced Practices in Inclusive Employment” in its collection.
It is not merely an accumulation of honors, but a continuous validation of commercial value.
From 2019 to the present, every certification, award, and case study selection we have received has served as ongoing validation of the value of this business model. B Corp certification, WELL Health Equity certification, and case studies featured in the Harvard Business Review, Tsinghua Management Review, and the China Management Case Sharing Center—through these five-fold validations of social mission, health standards, business logic, management practices, and academic value—have confirmed the innovation and research value of LiLi Time’s business model, demonstrating that inclusive employment is a sustainable, replicable, and scalable business model.
LiLi Time is proving that when business truly sees people, supports them, and empowers them, the value it creates goes beyond a cup of coffee, a store, or a single purchase—it becomes a force for good that simultaneously benefits the company, society, and the future.
LiLi Time is proving that when business truly sees people, supports them, and empowers them, the value it creates goes beyond a cup of coffee, a store, or a single purchase—it becomes a force for good that simultaneously benefits the company, society, and the future.