The research data was got through questionnaire survey on 180 family enterprises located at the Pearl River Delta and the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan area,then a correlation and regression analysis on Chinese family business contract management patterns was engaged by using SSPS18.0.The analysis results showed that market contracts and organization contracts belonged to dominant contract management mode,which had a great degree of positive correlation to family enterprise performance;property contracts had little effect on family enterprise performance,but authority contracts had a negative correlation to family enterprise performance;family contracts and relationship contracts,which belonged to implicit contracts,had little effect on family enterprise performance;cultural contracts have a great degree of positive correlation to the family enterprise performance.Relatively speaking,the dominant contract management mode had a bigger effect on family enterprises performance than the implicit contracts management mode did.