在国际艺术世界中，中国当代艺术已经发展成为亚洲文化的最令人兴奋的发展起着重要的作用。随着时间的推移以及近三十年的发展，中国巨大的变化既有社会环境和经济，其结果是中国当代艺术发生了很大的变化。中国当代艺术市场获得了巨大的增长，是世界上最受追捧的当代艺术形式。2010年，中国美术的年收入总额为当代艺术品销售额的30亿，成为世界第一。
2000年后，随着中国在管理体制发生变化，中国当代艺术中的一个突出变化。当代艺术体系的快速发展，给艺术家的生产和展示艺术带来了巨大的动力和能力。一个精心策划的对中国当代艺术的投资是相当稳健的，在目前和市场没有表现出未来的弱点。中国当代艺术市场在世界各地的许多艺术界都是非常强烈的。最著名和成功的行业像Yeu Minjun这样的艺术家，Cai Guoquiang和艾未未出售自己的作品，为世界各地的数百万美元。许多艺术收藏家甚至会保留多个中国当代艺术作品。在中国当代艺术市场的投资回报是比较高的，它不仅没有显示出放缓的迹象，它实际上仍然在增长。专家预测市场将在未来十年内保持增长。
Contemporary art in China has recently grown to be one of the most exciting cultural developments in Asia and now plays an important role in the international art world. The past thirty years of development in China have wrought tremendous changes to both the social environment and the economy, with the result that Chinese Contemporary Art has changed greatly over time as well. The market for Chinese contemporary art gained enormous growth and is the most sought-after form of contemporary art in the world. In 2010, China had a Fine Art annual revenue total of $3 billion in contemporary art sales, making it number one in the world.
After the year 2000, an outstanding change within contemporary Chinese art occurred with the change in the management system in China. The rapid development of the contemporary art system brought tremendous momentum and capacity for artists to produce and exhibit art. A well planned investment into Chinese contemporary art is quite safe at the moment and the market shows no weakness in the future ahead. The market for Chinese contemporary art is extremely strong in many art communities all over the world. The most well-known and successful artists in the industry like Yeu Minjun, Cai Guoquiang and Ai Weiwei sell their art for millions of dollars all over the world. Many art collectors will even keep multiple works of Chinese contemporary art. The return of investment in the Chinese contemporary art market is relatively high and not only does it shows no signs of slowing down, it is actually still growing. Experts are forecasting the market to keep growing for the next ten years.
Moreover, global financial markets around the world reacting aggressively to the debt crisis in Europe and the U.S, inflation in China continuing to hit new highs and the real estate market remaining very volatile, Chinese investors are likely to maintain their preference for stability and long-term gain, this means we can predict more of these investors to join the groups of China's new collectors, who have increasingly driven sales at auction houses not only in mainland China but also Hong Kong, London and New York. Buyers who previously entered in solely on traditional Chinese art or antiques are now getting more involved in the Chinese contemporary art market in order to make their investment more secure.
Past performance of the art market (2005-2010):
The art market in general and Chinese art market in particular has experienced a massive crisis of confidence following the meltdown of the global financial industry in 2008. Investor's confidence level in the art market decreased due to concern over financial and economic development. However, despite the fall in the value of other markets, total sales of Chinese art market still raised by 7%, generating $60.8 billion. According to chief art critic at the Times, Rachel Campell- Johnson, investors from different nations were concerned about investing in safer markets such as Chinese and Hong Kong art market, which are particularly strong in the areas of contemporary and modern art.
Current state of the art market (2011 - now):
In 2011, the high-end market displayed an extraordinary dynamism. According to a report from Artprice.com, approximately 1,675 artworks were sold above the $1 million threshold representing a 32% increase of auction sales versus 2010 and an increase of 493% compared to the beginning of the decade. China posted by far the best national score with 774 pieces sold. Indeed, Hong Kong posted twice as many million-plu
