The exit performance of private equity backed initial public of ferings was the object for th is study. This paper explored the influencing factor s of China private e quity IPO exit performance from the traits of invested firm, characteristics of private equity investment institutions, investment patterns and the external market environment. We also combined with characteristics of Main-Board, SME Board, Growth Enterprises Board in China and then applied multiple regression analysis to find out the factors affecting on the exit performance of the private equity inve stment. Compared with the literatures, the type and area of investment firms, such as state owned enterprises (SOEs) and coastal areas, and amount of share of IPO which were not discussed in related literatures are added in this paper. We found that, the investment period negatively affected the internal rate of return in the three markets the invested firms which were SOEs and located in coastal areas brought more exit performance, but the amount of share of IPO and the invested firms with high technology trait had different affections to the exit performance in the three markets however, the private equity investment institutions shareholding ratio basically did not have significant effects on exit performance; the scale of investment had a negative impact on exit performance in these three markets and when the investment case is at the mature stage o f the invested firm, it will reduce its exit performance.