In recent years, Chinese grape wine industry in the fast growth period. But the international financial crisis has affected the development of Chinese grape wine industry. In 2008, the growth speed of Chinese grape wine industry was slowed down compared with the previous years. In 2008, the yields of the grape wines in China were 698.3 thousand kiloliters, up by 5% over the previous year. The sales revenues were about 2.8 billion USD, up by 20% over the previous year.

In 2008, the imported grape wines accounted for 15% market shares of the grape wine sale revenues in Chinese market. Because of the advantages of the imported grape wines in the raw material quality and cultural contents, the high quality market was occupied by the imported products, the major imported grape wine brands circulated in Chinese market from the famous wine producing countries, including France, Italy, Spain, Portage, Germany, America, Canada, Chile, Argentina and Australia etc, in which the bulk imported volumes from Chile, Argentina, Spain, France, Italy and America stood the front places. In 2008, the total import amounts of the bottle grape wines in China reached to 264 million USD, increased by 43.48% compared with 184 million USD in 2007. Also, the import volumes of the bulk grape wines were grown in 2008 compared with 2007.