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In China, Government has been promoting the corn production mechanization by many kinds of measures since the harvesting mechanization has realized on wheat and rice. In China, corn is harvested in green for high-usage of lands so that corn harvesters cant complete some processes, like skinning, threshing, cleaning, drying and storage, because of higher moisture content in corn. To seek the realization approach of China corn production mechanization, this reported research analyzed the items of national subsidies for purchase of agricultural machinery in past three years, and by questionnaires investigated the current situation of almost 500 peasant household in 8 provinces and 1 municipality which are main production places of corn in China. The results showed in three aspects at present: (1) Some old corn processing technologies and equipments are selected in local agricultural machinery purchase subsidy items while some are unsuited for the single peasant household. (2) The most peasants do part of corn processes manually before selling, like skinning, threshing, storage, or do nothing to sell. (3) The government is paying more attention to the income of peasants and does the promotion on encouraging the agricultural equipment manufacturers to develop available processing technologies and equipments which can increase the value-added of agricultural products. Further study revealed the development directions of corn processing technologies and equipments in production place of China.