Hunan cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China. After more than two thousand years of development, it has a profound Hunan cuisine culture. China Hunan Cuisine Culture Festival has been held for three consecutive times, effectively integrating Hunan cuisine resources, optimizing the operating environment of Hunan cuisine, and the scale of Hunan cuisine is getting bigger and bigger. At present, Hunan cuisine industry has entered a golden period of development. In recent years, the total output value of Hunan cuisine has increased at an average annual rate of 65,438+00%, reaching more than 47.6 billion yuan in 2007. Among the eight major Chinese cuisines, the ranking of Hunan cuisine has risen from the original seventh to the third.