The development of pyrotechnics in China has a long history. As early as the eighth century BC,in the Zhou Dynasty,"smoke signal" the beacon tower appeared in China already. The process of alchemy led to the invention of black powder, which accelerated the development of Chinese pyrotechnics. Electronic warfare, pyrotechnics electro-optical countermeasures in the military area, and artificial rainfall-enhancement and anti-hail,fire extinguishing with pyrotechnics and electricity generation with pyrotechnics in the civil area and so on, has achieved innovative development. Chinese pyrotechnics have developed rapidly in the study of safe and environment friendly materials, smokeless/minimum smoke fireworks technology, nanometer fireworks, rare-earth fireworks and the special fireworks, fireworks for wedding, fireworks for birthday party, and cartoon fireworks,etc,which combined with the modern technology of other fields. The principle of solid chemistry and its application in the pyrotechnics system have accelerated the new process of theory of Chinese pyrotechnics.