As the world's largest producer of potatoes, China is achieving a magnificent transformation from raw material exports to high value-added product exports in the field of dehydrated potato, thanks to its resource endowment, technological innovation, and policy dividends. By 2025, China's dehydrated potato industry has formed a complete industrial chain covering planting, processing, and logistics, demonstrating unique competitive advantages in the international market.
The intelligent transformation has penetrated 30% of the top enterprises, the automation rate of the French fry sorting line has been increased to 85%, and the application rate of packaging robots has exceeded 60%, directly promoting a 2.3-fold increase in per capita output efficiency compared to 2020. The world's first "potato rice" production line has been put into operation in Zhaotong, Yunnan. Through high moisture extrusion and recombination technology, 2.5 tons of potatoes are converted into 1 ton of long-lasting staple food products, which not only solves the problem of potato perishability, but also increases the added value of the product by more than 10 times. The breakthrough in environmental protection technology is also significant. By 2025, the application proportion of membrane technology in wastewater treatment will reach 65%, biogas power generation will meet 30% of the energy demand of the factory area, the export unit price of carbon footprint certified products will increase by 12%, and the green production mode will win the favor of high-end markets such as the European Union.
The global dehydrated diced potato market is undergoing structural changes, with a market size of 5.664 billion US dollars in 2024 and expected to exceed 7 billion US dollars by 2031. The demand for frozen French fries in the Southeast Asian market has surged by 47%, giving rise to three dedicated cold chain shipping routes in ports such as Yantai and Lianyungang; The EU market has lowered tariffs on non GMO potato starch to 4.9%, stimulating Gansu enterprises to expand production capacity. Domestic enterprises have opened up blue oceans through product innovation. The purple potato beverage series developed in Yunnan has a gross profit margin of 42%, significantly higher than traditional categories; The market size of functional resistant starch in the field of health products has maintained an annual growth rate of over 25%, becoming a new profit growth point.
The labor cost in China is only one-third of that in European and American countries, and with the cooperation of the China Europe freight train cold chain special line, transportation costs have been reduced by 25%, forming significant price competitiveness. Top enterprises are accelerating their globalization layout, with the first overseas French fry processing plant built in Russia having a production capacity of 50000 tons per year, avoiding the 17.6% tariff barrier; Weifang, Shandong has promoted the export value of agricultural products such as scallions and ginger to over 20 billion yuan for four consecutive years through innovative applications of "blockchain+vegetables". This dual wheel drive model of "domestic base+overseas factory" has enabled China to shift from simple product exports to full chain exports of technology, equipment, and standards. In 2024, the export value of potato processing equipment exceeded 700 million US dollars for the first time.
Looking back at the node of 2025, the rise of China's dehydrated diced potato industry is not only a vivid practice of agricultural modernization, but also a model of agricultural product globalization under the new development pattern of "dual circulation". From the "potato rice" production line in the Wumeng Mountains to overseas factories along the Baltic Sea coast, from RCEP tariff concessions to the China Europe freight train cold chain line, China is using technological innovation as the engine and policy support as the wings, writing its own legendary chapter in the global potato industry chain. This leap not only provides a model for the high-quality development of Chinese agriculture, but also continues to rewrite the map of the world's dehydrated diced potato trade.
Post time: Jul-02-2025