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Nowadays, more and more Chinese companies devote much effort to their corporate websites design, and intercultural website design has become a newly emerging branch of intercultural communication studies.To explore to what extent Chinese companies make cultural adaptation on their English websites, this study employs a comparative analysis of domestic and English websites of 31 Chinese companies.Based on Hofstedes (1980) four cultural dimensions and Halls (1976) context dimensions, a modified framework for intercultural websites analysis proposed by Singh & Matsuo (2004) is used to evaluate the degree of cultural adaptation of sample companies websites.Results show that cultural adaptation has been practiced to some extent by Chinese companies on their English websites, but generally this adaptation is not significant statistically and is still at an early stage.Therefore, web designers and marketing practitioners need to better understand local culture of target market in order to improve the effectiveness of intercultural online marketing in the future.