Abstract:This study is designed to explore the construct of ethical leadership in Chinese context, and to further develop the Chinese Ethical Leadership Questionnaire (CELQ). Results show that: 1. Chinese ethical leadership is a 3dimension construct, including: moral traits, respect and tolerance; ethical rewards and punishments; 2. Chinese ethical leadership questionnaire demonstrates satisfying psychometric properties. The reliability and validity analysis reveals that Chinese Ethical leadership questionnaire is well designed with 24 effective items.