As an important part of the tertiary industry，China’s catering industry is one of the earliest beneficiaries of Reform and Opening-up. The China’s catering industry has undergone significant changes and improvements both in quality and quantity over the past 40 years，and is now playing an important role in the development of the national economy. On the basis of detailed and accurate reports and statistical yearbooks on China’s catering industry issued by the National Bureau of Statistics of China，Ministry of Commerce，World Federation of Chinese Catering Industry，China Cuisine Association，China Chain Store & Franchise Association，Research Center for Marketing and Distribution of Renmin University of China，Meituan and Analysys，the report，in combination with the representative enterprise cases in China’s catering industry，sums up the changes and development of Chinese catering market，catering consumption，catering operation mode，capital investment and consumption mode and accordingly puts forward new prospects for the multi-dimensional development and bright prospects of China’s catering industry under the new situation.