Especially in the last few years,with the close contacts and increasingly economic cooperation between China and neighboring countries,many people with ulterior motives,or the sensitive speculation for the development of China have immediately started the"new tributary system" theory,they believed that China try to resume "Zhongyuan Dynasty"status in.

The Tributary System started from the "five costumes system" before the dynasty of Qin, developed form the dynasty of Qin and Han, perfect in the dynasty of Tang and Song, consummated in the dynasty of Ming and Qing, degenerated and ended in the later Qing Dynasty.

This paper compares western capitalism international trade system and China\'s tributary trade system from fifteenth to eighteenth century.

The tributary relations had been set up between Xia, Shang Dynasty and the tribes conquered by them.

The tributary relationship between Sultanate of Malacca and Ming Dynasty went on for 119 years,and the relationship between the two countries had been limited to the only level of official tributary relationship with tributary trade as a major form.

After Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895,the agreement of "Treaty of Shimonoseki" declared the end of tributary relationship of Sino-Korea.