Abstract: In recent years, China’s cassava production has been trapped in the problems of high cost, low efficiency, stagnant yield per unit area, demand exceeds supply and so on. In order to promote the healthy development of cassava industry in China and enhance its international competitiveness, the situations of cassava production from 2004 to 2013 in the world were analyzed. The results showed that there was a large gap between China and other cassava producing countries in the aspects of harvest area, fresh root yield (FRY), total yield and contribution rate of FRY. The contribution rate of FRY to production quantity was 19.21% in China, which was only 31.13% of the world average level. Thus, China needed to learn from foreign successful experiences, followed a road combining“bringing in”and“going global”, strengthen policy support, improve the level of deep processing, promote the cultivation of fine cultivars and good cultivating practices, and improve the level of production scale and mechanization.