Abstract:The government food safety regulation policy formulation should be rooted in the market structure characteristic of the food industry. Based on the sample data of meat enterprises in China's industrial enterprises database, this paper analyzes the scale characteristics of the meat enterprises from three dimensions about the number of employees, the total sales and the total assets. On the distribution of enterprise's sales accounted for market share and quantile difference analysis, it can be concluded that the meat market is in a state of monopolistic competition. However, the results obtained only from the three dimensions are not the same. In order to reflect the real situation of food enterprises, it is necessary to make a comprehensive analysis of the indicators. Finally, it is found that the size of the meat enterprises shows a pattern from large to small, respectively, large, medium, small, and miniature. The analysis of this paper is helpful to the further empirical research on food safety production.