Abstract: With sweet potato industrialization process accelerated in China, sweet potato is playing important roles in increasing farmers′ income, providing healthy food for people and raw material for industry. This paper expounded the dynamic changing history in sweet potato planting area, total output, per unit area yield and its characteristics in recent 50 years, objectively analyzed the changing characteristics of sweet potato comsumption structure and the development tendency. Fully understanding sweet potato industry in China and the changes in its consumption structure would have important significance for guiding and promoting sweet potatoing scientific and sustainable development.

Key words: sweet potato, industry economy, product structure

摘要： 随着我国甘薯产业化进程的加快，甘薯发挥着为广大农民增收致富、为国人提供健康食品、为工业提供原料等重要作用。阐述 了近50年来我国甘薯种植面积、总产和单产的动态变化历程及其特征，客观分析了我国甘薯消费结构的变化特点及发展趋势， 并对“十三五”期间（2016-2020年）我国甘薯产业的消费结构和经济产值进行预测。充分了解我国甘薯产业种植与消费结构 的变化特点与发展趋势，对于引导和推动甘薯产业科学与可持续发展有着重要意义。

关键词: 甘薯, 产业经济, 消费结构