Abstract: Seven land mammal ages and thirteen mammal faunal units ( NMU) are recognized for the Chinese Neogene based on updated large and small mammal faunas. Nowadays, NMU has been strongly broadened by data from new localities and new taxa in China. The significance of these new data is that they are beneficial toward our understanding of mammal turnovers and boundary calibrations. In recent years, the Chinese Neogene mammal ages have become more accurate with the introduction of magnetostratigraphy, which has enabled ages to be calibrated and well-dated at their boundaries. Increasingly abundant paleomagnetic measurements make a good calibration for the correlation of the Chinese Neogene mammalian faunas with their European countelparts. As a result, this paper compares and corelates NMU to the European Neogene mammal zones ( MIN) , based primarily on mammalian fossils and paleomagnetic datings.