Abstract: The seventeen new breeding peanut varieties in Fujian were planted in a randomized block-design in Quanzhou City for selecting the variety that was most suitable for local promotion and application, ‘Quanhua 551’ ranked first in all the participating varieties with an average pod yield of 4873.5 kg/hm2, which was 15.58% significantly higher than control ‘Quanhua 7’, the average pod yield of ‘Puhua 4’, ‘Fuhua 8’, ‘Quanhua 8’ and ‘Minhua 8’ were also significantly higher than control. We studied the correlation and path analysis on yield and yield component traits. The results showed that, the main agronomic characters were positively correlated with plant productivity, the correlation coefficient, from big to small, was 100-kernel weight, 100-pod weight, total branches, branch length, stem height, shelling percentage, numbers of pods per plant, pods of one kilogram. Path analysis showed that the direct path coefficient between different traits and plant productivity, from big to small, total branches, branch length, stem height, 100-pod weight, numbers of pods per plant, 100-kernel weight, pods of one kilogram, 100-kernel weight, numbers of pod branches per plant.