Objective/Meaning In recent years, China's prepared dishes industry has flourished as a novel business model integrating the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries to drive rural revitalization. Supported by government policies and leveraging robust infrastructure and locational advantages, Fujian Province has established a comprehensive industrial system for prepared dishes, positioning itself at the forefront nationally. This makes Fujian an exemplary case for studying the evolution of the prepared dishes industry.

Methods/Procedures Using the number of enterprises as an indicator of industrial scale, this study employs spatial analysis and statistical methods to reveal the spatial morphology of Fujian's prepared dishes industry and its underlying drivers.

Results/Conclusions The findings indicate:(1) The prepared dishes industry in Fujian exhibits a distinct spatial pattern characterized by coastal belt-like agglomeration, inland point-like clusters, and an elongated distribution along the northeast-southwest axis. (2) Overall, the industry demonstrates a development structure dominated by large enterprises, with Southern Fujian (Minnan region) serving as the absolute agglomeration core. (3) Analysis via OLS (Ordinary Least Squares) and GWR (Geographically Weighted Regression) models reveals that logistics infrastructure, industrial foundations, foreign trade, and raw material output exert significantly positive driving effects on industry scale, with industrial foundations being the most influential. Conversely, economic development level and labor force conditions show significantly negative effects, particularly regional economic development. Furthermore, the impacts of these factors demonstrate pronounced spatial heterogeneity.