Abstract: The characters of lychee production in Guangdong are: a. cultivation acreage and production of lychee concentrating relatively in several districts. Maoming city is the largest area of lychee production that the percentages of lychee cultivation acreage and production in 2002 were 46.03% and 38.29% ; b. the lychee main variety constituting dominant proportion of the whole lychee production. the percentages of “heiye” and “baila” cultivation acreage and production in Maoming city in 2003 were 80% and 83.0%; c. the period of lychee on market being short. the period of “heiye” lychee on market from Zhanjiang city to northern districts of lychee production is about 2-month; d. the number of lychee production unit being large, but the scale per unit being small. The cultivation acreage of lychee in Genzi town, Maoming city in 2003 was 4.1khm2, but the number of lychee production unit was upto 135. All these characters of lychee production will cause competition inside lychee industry, to promote progresses in lychee standard cultivation, commodity base in ecological districts, fruit preparation for marketing and managerial system improvement, and to lead lychee industry into two developing modes of individual product and general product.