Organized by the Organizing Committee of China Nut and Dried Fruit Food Exhibition and Beijing Zhongjian Heguo Information Technology Service Co., Ltd, the 18th Nut and Dried Fruit Food Exhibition and Purchasing and Supply Conference was held in Hefei City, Anhui Province, China, from April 16th to 19th, 2025, which was a grand event and a record high, and achieved a complete success.

First, the exhibition area, the number of visitors, turnover, international influence are record high.

The exhibition area is over 150,000 square meters, divided into three areas: product exhibition area, multi-functional activity area and carnival experience area. Among them, the product exhibition area reaches 120,000 square meters, with 8 exhibition halls and 20 exhibition areas, bringing together over 10,000 products from nearly 2,000 exhibitors from the global industrial chain, attracting over 3 million online and offline visitors, and the number of domestic and international visitors during the three-day exhibition period is 237,000, an increase of 58% compared with that of last year, with overwhelming popularity, and the unprecedented situation exceeds that of previous years. Numerous dealers and buyers came to the scene, focusing on precise purchasing. According to incomplete statistics, the on-site turnover of up to 1.96 billion, an increase of 35.7%, a record high.
Second, the exhibition achieved more than ever, with four new features:
1、Online and offline synchronization, the influence over the previous years
The exhibition innovative publicity model, take online, offline joint promotion, respectively, in the people's network, Xinhua, half-moon talk, CCTV, international online, Zhong'an online, sina, baidu, today's headlines, phoenix, China food safety network, anhui television, hefei television, hefei release, anhui daily, interface anhui and other more than a hundred of media to promote publicity and the use of jitterbug, video number, taobao, and other live platforms Precise positioning, maximize the placement of publicity. According to incomplete statistics, the opening day of the dried nuts and fruits exhibition network live video plus cloud map live real-time viewing of nearly 200,000 people. On-site enterprise new product promotion live on Taobao, Shake voice, video number of the three platforms viewed more than 100,000 people. The exhibition triggered strong repercussions in the industry and attracted great attention and warm praise from the whole society.
2、Substantial increase in the degree of internationalization
The international exhibition area has more than 50 foreign enterprises from nearly 20 countries around the world to participate in the exhibition, the world's leading enterprises of the main producing areas of nuts, such as the California Batonwood Association, Wandover pistachio, Australian Batonwood Association, South Africa, South African Bilberry Association, You Fresh Peel, Avolan, Vietnam Longshan, Hoang Son, Grassland cashews and so on have set up booths. At the same time there are 20 countries jointly released the global nuts and seeds, dried fruit and dried fruit industry development and advantageous production areas, supply and demand pattern and trend analysis, the degree of internationalization over the previous session.
3、Professional docking, precise procurement and supply, efficient turnover, turnover increased by 35.17 percent
The professionalism, precision and high efficiency of the turnover of this exhibition, so that exhibitors can more directly and efficiently trade and negotiate with buyers, has become the biggest feature of the exhibition, especially in addition to three squirrels, fair and other well-known brands turnover rate, a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, such as Suzhou Mrs. Su food, Changshu Xingda Food, the processing of the agglomeration of generation, such as the Meikou Pine Nut Association Pavilion, Lin'an Nut Association Pavilion, Xinjiang Aksu regional pavilion on-site order turnover rate also increased significantly, the overall turnover of the exhibition increased by 35.17%.
4. The quality of the exhibition was improved in all aspects and reached the advanced level of international first-class professional exhibitions, which was unanimously praised and acclaimed by domestic and foreign counterparts.
Strictly control the quality, and comprehensively improve the exhibition to a new level.
More than 2,000 exhibitors, tens of thousands of products, industry leaders gathered, especially in the international exhibition area of nearly 50 exhibitors from nearly 20 countries beautiful booth design, high-quality product display, not only to promote the internationalization of the industry, but also to share the opportunities for global development to make new contributions.
New on-site procurement and supply docking area, and various thematic zones to shine
The Carnival Experience Zone and Multi-functional Release Zone of this year's Dried Nuts & Fruits Expo are even more “trendy”. With the core concept of “cultural empowerment exhibition and product highlighting culture”, a number of activity zones are set up to deeply implant culture and products into the Carnival to create a brand-new scene integrating culture, interaction and popularization of science and technology. It will set up a number of activity zones and deeply implant culture and products into the Carnival, creating a brand-new scene integrating culture, interaction and science popularization. In the Food Pavilion and Equipment Pavilion set up a new product release area, procurement and supply negotiation area, the organizing committee invited Sam, RT-Mart, Wal-Mart, the whole family, Ming Ming is very busy, love discount snacks, Meiyijia and other supermarkets and Jingdong super, jittering e-commerce, fast, and the volume of snacks enterprises to participate in the supply and demand docking meeting for the supply and demand of on-site ordering to meet the purchasers, suppliers to expand the market for a variety of needs.
Third, the multiple high-quality conference activities jointly released by 18 countries during the exhibition have played a positive role in boosting the high-quality development of the global nut industry.
A number of professional conference activities, from source seed industry, raw materials, auxiliary materials, equipment, processing, to market analysis and prediction, omni-channel marketing, and enterprise professional exchange meeting, with broad information, accurate and authoritative data, which is of great reference value for sharing information on the global nut industry and enterprises to make decisions on the development of the industry, and has been unanimously praised by the industry enterprises.
The “2024-2025 Nut Seeds, Dried Fruits and Fruit Raw Materials (Seed Industry) Product Analysis and Forecast Conference” focuses on source control and is committed to promoting the high-quality development of the industry, and the report involves the development of the nut seeds, dried fruit and fruit industry in 8 countries and the advantageous production areas, supply and demand patterns and trend analysis. China Nut and Dried Fruit Food Exhibition Organizing Committee Chairman, three squirrels founder and CEO Zhang Liaoyuan delivered a keynote report, analyzing the logic behind the big changes in food retailing, and discussing the exploration of new business models for digitalization of nut enterprises. He said that China's snack food industry is rich in categories, the market is vast, the economic and industrial structure of the great adjustment pregnant with huge opportunities, China's flavor has the potential to breed world-class snack food giants in the industry. The generation of world-class food brands is not a one-day effort, but a comprehensive cultivation of product, channel, supply chain and brand building capabilities. In the current food retailing changes, we should pull supply chain changes with diversified consumer demand, carry out systematic innovation, and adapt more cost-effective commodities for the global market.
It is worth mentioning that the International Nut and Dried Fruit Council (INC) attaches great importance to this meeting, the Council's Vice President Ashok Krishn spoke at the General Assembly, said that China's nut and dried fruit industry in the past ten years compound growth rate of more than 5%, which is twice the compound growth rate of the global GDP, and at the same time is the growth rate of the total development of the agricultural industry is three times higher. He said he was very optimistic about the booming development of China's dried nut industry and market.
The first “Global Nuts in China Enabling Processing and Market Development Roundtable Dialogue” attracted representatives of leading dried nuts and fruit enterprises from the United States, Australia, Vietnam, South Africa and other eight countries, as well as industry experts to gather together. With the theme of “Advantage, Opportunity, Cooperation and Win-Win”, the event focused on core categories such as blueberries, hazelnuts, cashews and macadamia nuts, and in-depth discussions were held on topics such as technological innovation of raw material standardization and processing, insights into the consumption trend of China's market, and synergy in the global supply chain. Guests shared their experiences of the whole chain from planting to consumption, and explored new modes of transnational cooperation in response to the upgrading demand for high-quality and healthy products from Chinese consumers. This dialogue not only builds an efficient platform for resource interoperability and innovation synergy for the global nut industry, but also highlights China's strategic position as the core market for global nut processing and consumption, injecting international kinetic energy into the industry's sustainable growth.
The “2025 Dried Nuts Market Analysis and Forecast Report and Omni-Channel Business Conference” conveys the latest market situation and consumption trends, so that healthy nuts can benefit the public. At the meeting, not only the 2024-2025 national dried nuts and fruit market analysis and forecast and consumption analysis and forecast of the leading report, but also “insight - market volume what - why volume - how to break out of the innovation and development” as the theme of a round-table dialogue, the organizers invited online and offline with the characteristics and representative of the Jingdong, three squirrel, Three fat eggs, Qi Wang peanuts and other snacks volume retailer brands and dried nuts and fruit processing enterprise representatives, on stage and off-stage interaction and lively discussion, from wholesale, distribution, super, convenience, shelf e-commerce, content e-commerce, volume retailer discounts and other dimensions, the participants expressed their views on how to achieve a better development of the dried nuts and fruit category!
The opening and welcome party of the 18th Dried Nuts & Fruits Food Expo 2025 will allow global dried nuts and fruits colleagues to connect their hearts and hands, gather the elite power of the global nut industry, build an industrial community of destiny, and move forward hand in hand for the prosperity and development of the dried nuts and fruits industry. It is especially worth mentioning that the evening party awarded “enterprises, units and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the development of Nut & Dried Fruit Food Expo and Nut & Dried Fruit Industry from 2006 to 2025”, paying tribute to every colleague in China's nut & dried fruit industry.
Held during the same period are “2025 National dried nuts and fruits new equipment, new technologies, packaging (packaging materials), auxiliary ingredients, additives, new product promotion conference”, “2025 '18th China Dried Nuts and Fruits Food Expo exhibitors to introduce the product online live! ”, “provinces and cities dried nuts and fruit associations (chambers of commerce)”, “the industry alliance exchanges,” and enterprise professional exchanges ...... new products, new equipment New products, new equipment, new technology, business environment, procurement and supply and other areas of professional meetings and activities, covering the core focus of the dried nuts and fruit industry and hot topics, industry gurus, well-known experts and scholars, production and processing enterprises, omni-channel operators and so on gathered together to participate in the current exhibition of exhibitors, buyers, as well as all the visiting enterprises, to discuss the development of major policies and plans, and build and share a more prosperous dried nuts and fruit market.
Under the unity and joint efforts of the whole industry, the 18th Dried Nuts & Fruits Food Expo 2025 has achieved unprecedented success. This success is attributed to the unity of the whole industry, thanks to our enterprises to pay a lot of manpower, material resources, financial resources, energy and valuable time, but also thanks to our tens of thousands of every colleague to go to the exhibition site to participate in the visit, purchasing and negotiation, learning and exchange! Let's look forward to next year's exhibition with larger scale, higher quality, more people and better results! Make more and more contributions to the high-quality development of China's dried nuts and fruits industry!