Great changes have taken place in soybean food industry:  soy foods towards industrialization, have been growing number of enterprises, enterprise scale, mechanization automation level gradually improve, product varieties growing. For example in China, with the China's tofu diet culture spread around the world, soybean food industry show its important role on the world stage.

China's soybean planting are mainly distributed in the northeast, huang-huai-hai region, the Yangtze river basin and the south, northeast region accounts for more than 60% of the country. 2010, soybean yield is 15.08 million tons, an increase of 0.6% from the 2009, planting area of 8.4 million hectares, compared with last year to reduce 400000 hectares, the damping is 4.5%. During the 11th five-year plan, China's annual consumption increase year by year, the annual consumption of 2010 nearly 70 million tons, compared with 2006 increased by nearly 25 million tons. Used in food industry soybean amount in China from 2006 to 2010, respectively is: about 8 million tons, 8.5 million tons, 9 million tons, 9.5 million tons, 9.5 million tons;  About 15% of total soybean consumption. About 10 million tons in 2010 (15%) used in the food industry, but in 2006 was only 600 tons; Used in traditional soy products processing about 5 million tons in 2010 (50%); Used for direct consumption of about 3 million tons; For other food processing about 2 million tons, compared with the same period in 2006, have nearly doubled. 

In terms of soybean food processing technology, enterprises in the continuous improvement process, at the same time use of advanced technology to make the product quality more stable: new super high temperature sterilization process, homogeneous process in use, make the soya-bean milk changed short shelf life and taste the defects of poor quality, increased the production; Seasoning technology innovation have greatly enriched the taste of soy products(the technology is used to produce a flavoring machine); By the technique of filling and packaging technology for consumers to eat up more convenient.