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Structural changes of vegetable circulation has taken place in China. The trend that vegetables circulation mainly on the agricultural wholesale market basis is now developing to the mode of large scale and national wide area circulation. So, more and more vegetables are moving into the city through the wide area circulation channel. On the contrary,urban faubourgs's vegetable production and circulation is becoming more and more difficult. That is to say it is assumed that large-scale vegetable circulation are oppressing and hindering the urban faubourgs's small scale vegetable production and circulation. Although there are a lot of study on the analysis of the Chinese vegetables circulation, there still exist two problems. The first is that the previous study analyzed the problem from the aspect of wholesalers' or retailers’merchandise purchasing behaviors separately, they did not analyze or discuss the development trend of vegetable circulation system itself which including the main circulation bodies such as wholesalers and retailers. The second is that the previous research are mainly focus on the coastal areas or big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and they didn't focus on the problem in the economically backwards provinces in western of China. This paper takes huhhot city as an example. It analyses the expansion process of China's local urban vegetable circulation structure. The analysis results is that the structure of China's local urban vegetable circulation is changing from the mode mainly on the local vegetables circulation to the mode mainly on wide area vegetables circulation. This means that China’s local urban vegetable consumption is becoming increasingly dependent on large-scale vegetables origin, origin wholesale market and the city transit wholesale market.