Abstract:S: China is a big country consuming vegetable seeds. However, most of the market profits flow to foreign companies. The vegetable breeding in China exhibits many realistic dilemmas. Specifically, a conventional breeding strategy has taken grain as the key link for a long time while vegetable breeding is weakened; research strength for the vegetable breeding is so scattered that no resultant force can be formed; research basis is too weak and technical reserve is inadequate; and scientific research targets are paper-oriented while market-oriented capacity is deficient. To deal with the dilemmas, breeding scientific research departments should recognize that genetic resources are rich in our country; market demands for the vegetable seeds are enormous; and breeding enthusiasms of enterprises are relatively high. On the basis, a market-oriented breeding system should be explored and established; breeding breakthrough points should be selected reasonably and accurately; breeding industrial chains should be improved; and collaborative innovation and regional cooperation should be promoted.