This thesis aims to examine the relationship among internationalization, ownership concentration, and performance in China firms during the 2008 financial crisis. In order to examines whether or not the role of government would affect the implementation of internationalization and ownership concentration strategies on firm performance in China, this study investigated the impact of the 2008 financial crisis by dividing the framework into two periods: pre-crisis period (2003 to 2007) and post-crisis period (2008 to 2015).This research applies panel data regression of ordinary least squares method and multilevel model to test on the sample of 9299 observations in 15 different industries dated from 2003 to 2015. The analysis shows a U-shaped relationship between degree of internationalization and firm performance, and an inverted U-shaped relationship between degree of ownership concentration and firm performance. Moreover, the finding shows that there is a significant effect of the financial crisis on the degree of ownership concentration and state ownership. However, the degree of state ownership didn’t moderate the association between internationalization and firm performance during the crisis period. Performance of China firms in post-crisis period was lower when they expanded their international involvement. The findings suggest competitiveness and corporate governance of firms in China is an important issue that should not be ignored in the future.