The invention discloses a 
xylose production process. The 
xylose production process comprises the following steps: adding pretreated pentosan-enriched 
plant fiber into a 1.0%-1.5% 
sulfuric acid solution to generate 
hydrolysis reaction, and filtering liquid to obtain 
hydrolysate; decoloring the 
hydrolysate by virtue of 
activated carbon or decoloring resin until the transparency of the 
hydrolysate is 20%-80%, and filtering to remove impurities by virtue of 
membrane filter equipment; concentrating the filtered hydrolysate by virtue of membrane concentration equipment, and decoloring the hydrolysate until the transparency of the hydrolysate is 60%-90% to obtain feed liquid, wherein 
leachate of the membrane concentration equipment is used as inflow water of an electroosmosis concentrated water chamber; desalting the feed liquid by virtue of electroosmosis and 
ion exchange resin, wherein electroosmosis concentrated water is circularly applied to a 
hydrolysis step; concentrating the feed liquid until the 
refractive index is 80%, crystallizing in a 
crystallization tank, and centrifuging to separate mother liquid, so as to obtain 
xylose crystals. According to the xylose production process, the problem that the costs for 
sewage treatments including 
neutralization and 
ion exchange in the prior art are high is solved, and the problems of short service life, low desalting efficiency, poor stability and high 
power consumption of an electroosmosis manner in the production of xylose are solved.