The main purpose of this study is to analysis the corporate governance about Chinese family firms. With respect of the Shenzhen SME board firm-level data in 2009, we discuss the effect of the board size, the proportion of outside directors and the CEO duality on company’s performance. We propose three hypotheses to describe the linkage between corporate governance and family firms’ performance. The three hypotheses are that the board size is positively correlated of firm performance, the ratio of independent directors in the number of board correlates company performance positively, and the CEO duality has positive effects on firm performance. The empirical results support second hypothesis,but not support the first and the third hypothesis.
