[1] Alongside Japan and Australia, they became one of the only three Asian Football Confederation teams to finish on the top four of the FIFA Women's World Cup.
On 16 November 1991, the China PR and Norway competed in Guangzhou for the first official women's World Cup match.
At the World Cup in Sweden China PR was in the same group as defending champions United States, Australia and Denmark.
Since no team could score a goal in the subsequent extra time, there was the first penalty shootout at a women's World Cup.
With the fourth place, however, the Chinese qualified for the first women's football tournament at the Olympic Games 1996, in which only the eight best teams of the World Cup participated.
After three victories against North Korea, Uzbekistan and the Philippines, they heavily defeated the Republic of China (Taiwan) with a score of 10–0, securing their ticket to the USA World Cup.
After scoreless 120 minutes, the champion was decided penalty shootout, for the first time in the Women's World Cup.
The 2003 World Cup was scheduled to take place again in China, but due to the SARS epidemic it was relocated to the United States.
China PR was able to win the Asian Champion title for the eighth time, after two consecutive successes by North Korea.
At the 2010 Asian Cup held in the China, they could not benefit from the home advantage and finished in fourth place.
After a 7–0 win against Thailand at the start of the group stage, they won 3–0 over Myanmar, and drew 0–0 with South Korea.
In the draw, the People's Republic of China was assigned to Group A along with host Canada, against whom the opening match was played.
China lost the opening Match to Canada 1–0, with the only goal scored by a penalty in stoppage time.
As in 1999, the game went without goals in the first half, but six minutes after the restart, Carli Lloyd scored for a USA 1–0 victory.
With three wins against Thailand, the Philippines and hosts Jordan, China PR reached the semi-finals, where they lost against Japan.
In the game against Germany, the German playmaker Dzsenifer Marozsán suffered a toe break and dropped out for the rest of the group matches.