Rapid development of information and communication technology has made great changes in the life of human society and this has stimulated a new e-commerce model in the commercial field. In today's life, an increasing number of people coming from different countries and speaking in different languages with different cultures are likely to purchase or sell goods on Chinese cross-border e-commerce platforms like Alibaba.com, JD.com, Lightinthebox.com, DHgate.com. Combined with the advantage of the economics of scale in the internet world and the good performance of China e-commerce market, China cross-border e-commerce is growing with over 30% growth rate. The transaction volume of China cross-border e-commerce was 9.6 trillion Chinese yuan in 2018 and is expected to reach to 12 trillion Chinese yuan in 2020 which will account for 40% of China foreign trade. The speed rise of cross-border e-commerce is own to the rapid development of information network technology and global economic integration, in coincidence with the 2008 global financial crisis making some of the traditional large cross-border trade into small online transactions. Cross-border e-commerce is a new economic growth point of the internet era and has brought new opportunities and challenges for China's foreign trade. Therefore the analysis of China cross-border e-commerce will be helpful for global enterprises and other countries to understand the whole situation of China cross-border e-commerce before they want to establish trade relationship with China. Beside the analysis of China cross-border e-commerce also can benefit the study of others countries' own cross-border e-commerce's development. The aim of this paper is to give a general analysis of China cross-border e-commerce by basing on reviewing the details related to it background, product categories, business models and platforms, payment system, custom clearance and taxation reform and so on. This paper will also list the weakness, strengths, opportunities and threats of the cross-border e-commerce in China and do a general SWOT analysis. Therefore the results of this study will be recommendable for similar studies in cross-border e-commerce study area.