Chinese Chef Festival was initially organized by Jinan, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hefei, Nanchang, Changsha, Chengdu, Xi'an and other twelve cities in the country's civil society organizations organized on their own initiative, the purpose is to Chef's Festival is intended to be held to further promote the Chinese culinary culture, strengthen the technical exchanges of the food and beverage industry across the country, to create respect for chefs, advocate the innovation of a good atmosphere, and to encourage chefs for the The development of China's catering industry and constantly strive for. The first chef association festival was held in Jinan in October 1991, initially named "National Twelve Cities Chef Association Festival", the name has been used until the chef's festival held in Shanghai in 1998. 1999, from the ninth renamed "China Chef's Festival". 2000, the tenth renamed "China Chef's Festival". "In 2000, the scale and grade of the 10th China Chef Festival was further developed.

"China Chef Festival" is one of the key exhibitions supported by the Ministry of Commerce. As a regular industry meeting, it has become the most large-scale and influential brand activities in China's catering industry. To strengthen industry exchanges, promote the development of the industry, and promote the Chinese food culture plays an important role. The annual "China Chef's Day" has become a grand festival for Chinese industry insiders.

October 17 to 20, 2008 was held in Beijing, the country's provincial and municipal delegations and thousands of chefs gathered in Beijing, as well as from the United States, Japan, Australia, Germany, South Korea and other overseas colleagues from more than 20 countries and regions in the world, to learn from each other's skills, and to exchange experience, greatly promoting the prosperity of China's food and beverage industry, and at the same time, also establishes China's food and beverage the first exhibition of the authoritative position, known as "China's first exhibition". At the same time, it has also established the authoritative position of the first exhibition of Chinese catering, which is known as China's "Chef's Summit" and "Canton Fair of Catering Industry".