中国糖果零食展组委会日前发布的调查数据显示，近年来中国进口休闲食品需求量的年增长率在15%-20%之间。另据其预测，到2020年中国进口食品将进入井喷式高速发展的黄金十年，市场份额将高达4800亿美元。
该组委会进一步介绍，进口休闲食品种类很多，主要有膨化食品、巧克力、糖果、饼干、果汁饮料、果冻、咖啡、干果等十大系列上万个品种，其中糖制食品能够占到总体进口量的70%左右。再加之，进口休闲食品平均利润率可达到40%-50%，因此近年来吸引了众多投资者从事进口休闲食品经营生意，而且很多传统经销商也开始转向进口食品市场。（中国进出口网）
Chinese Candy and Snacks Expo Organizing Committee recently released that, in recent years, China's annual growth rate of demand for imports of snack foods is between 15% -20%. Besides it forecast that by 2020 China will enter the golden years of the rapid growth of food imports, and that market share will reach $480 billion.
The committee further reports, there are many types of imported snack foods, mainly including puffed food, chocolate, sweets, biscuits, fruit drinks, jelly, coffee, nuts and other two series, totally tens of thousands of varieties, among them, confectionery accounts for about 70% of overall imports, moreover imported snack foods’ average profit margin up to 40% -50%, so in recent years many investors have been attracted to engage in the import snack food business, and many traditional dealers have turned to import food market.
