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actitioner to understand the nature of political strategies of Chinese firms. The results of our research are summarized below. Eight types of corporate political strategies are identified and they are named government involvement strategy, direct participation strategy, government association strategy, financial incentive strategy, prolocutor strategy, institution innovation strategy, information consultation strategy and social power mobilization strategy, according to the nature of consisting political tactics (refer to table 1) in each type of strategy. Among them, the most used strategies are direct participation, prolocutor, government involvement, and government association strategy, while financial incentive, information consultation, social power mobilization and institution innovation strategy are used relatively less. In theory, the results of this paper are consistent and supportive to previous research on corporate political actions, and also expand our understanding on the nature of corporate political strategies in a transitional business environment like China. Our studies are also helpful for top managers to realize what proper political strategies they may adopt. Of course our research has its shortcomings. This paper only identifies the characteristics of Chinese firms’ political activities by the scale. Even with above limitation, this paper provides readers with a better understanding of the political activities in Chinese environment. References [1] Brennan, S. Corporate Political Activity: An Exploratory Study in a Developing Industry. Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, 1980(2): 197-236 [2] Churchill, G. A. A Paradigm for Developing Better Measures of Marketing Constructs. Journal of Marketing Research, 1979(16): 64-73 [3] Davis, B. CEOs, Stymied in Capital on Trade, Lobby Hinterland. Wall Street Journal, June (1998): A30 [4] Getz, K. Selecting Corporate Political Tactics. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993 [5] Keim, G. Foundations of a Political Strategy for Business. California Management Review, 1981(3): 41-48 [6] Peterson, Robert A. A Meta-Analysis of Cronbach’s Coefficient Alpha. Journal of Consumer Research, 1994, 10(2): 381-391 [7] Sethi, P. Corporate political activism. California Management Review, 1982, 24(2): 32-42 [8] Shaffer, B. Firm-Level Responses to Government Regulation: Theoretical and Research Approaches. Journal of Management, 1995, 21(3): 495-514 [9] Chen Huaiyuan. The Reason Analysis of the Abortion of Several Brand of Hubei province in China. The Journal of Social Science of Hubei, 2000(5): 17-26. (in Chinese) [10] Zhang Weiying. The Muddle of Chinese Entrepreneur. The Economic Report of the 21st Century, 2001-06-11 (in Chinese) [11] Zhilong Tian, Yongqiang Gao & Wei Wu. The Study on the Corporate Political Strategy and Action of Chinese Enterprises. The Journal of Management World, 2003(12): 98-106 (in Chinese) [1].We tried to analyze the differences of responses from firms with different nature of ownership, but we only found that significant differences exist in only 7 among the 39 variables. Due to the limitation of the paper, we omitted the related analysis, but this omission does not affect the quality of our paper. [2].The Daily of South City, 2004-10-11