China pays more and more attention to ecological agriculture and pollution-free food, and developing pollution-free agriculture has become an important means to protect the environment and increase farmers' income. Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, seven ministries and commissions, including the Ministry of Agriculture, have identified 50 eco-agricultural demonstration counties nationwide, ranging from 65438 to 0993. China proposed at the Third Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee that industrial and commercial enterprises should be encouraged to invest in the processing and marketing of agricultural products, actively promote agricultural industrialization, and form an integrated industrial chain of scientific research, production, processing and sales. This slogan further points out the industrialization direction for the development of ecological agriculture in China. As an important part of the agricultural system, edible fungi have developed rapidly in China. At present, it has become one of the three major industries in China's agricultural system: planting, aquaculture and mushroom industry. In the development of edible fungi industry, the attention of the government and leaders has become one of the important reasons to promote the development of this industry to increase efficiency and income. Government departments have played an important role in industrial policy, leading role, service management, technology introduction, publicity and popularization, and technical training.

In the early stage of industrialization of edible fungi in China, edible fungi were mainly used for export. Due to different geographical locations and climatic conditions, various provinces have formed unique varieties in the cultivation of edible fungi. According to statistics, Northeast China, Xinjiang and other provinces and regions export hundreds of tons of rod mushrooms; Sichuan, Yunnan, Jilin and other provinces also export more than 500 tons of salted chicken oil fungus every year; Yunnan and Jilin mainly produce boletus, exporting 300-600 tons of dry products and 3000 tons of salt products every year, which has considerable scale advantages; Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan and other provinces export 30-60 tons of truffles every year; Shanxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Tibet and other provinces exported nearly 100 tons of Morchella.

As China's wild mushroom market experienced two setbacks of 1989 and 1997, a large number of edible mushrooms took this as a lesson and began to turn to the domestic market. The global financial crisis in 2008 also affected the export of edible fungi to a certain extent, further increasing the importance of edible fungi industry to the domestic market. With the rapid development of China's economy, people's disposable income has been further improved, and their outlook on life has also undergone tremendous changes. Consumers pay more and more attention to health care. Edible fungi are known as "delicacies" and "the pinnacle of plant food" by western countries. They have both nutrition and health care functions, and meet the requirements of "nature, nutrition and health care". With the consumers' pursuit of health, the edible fungi market in China continues to heat up, with great market potential. The huge consumption potential of edible fungi makes edible fungi appear more and more in China's large vegetable market. For example, in the vegetable markets of Chengdu, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Beijing, Changsha, Zhengzhou and Kunming, edible fungi have attracted much attention. Chengdu, Guangzhou, Beijing and Zhengzhou have grown into the main distribution centers of edible fungi market in China, with huge sales.