Cultural volunteer service is the carrier of cultivating and practicing socialist core values，which is an important part of the modern public cultural service system. Cultural services provided by cultural volunteers serve as an innovation to promote the cultural construction of China. In general，the history of the development of cultural volunteer service in China can be divided into three stages：before 2010，the stage from carrying out the folk spontaneous activities to the consciously exploration and construction in some places；between 2010 and 2014，the stage of the organizational and systematic advances of national cultural volunteer service. After 2015，the stage of institutional and socialized advances of the national cultural volunteer service. Under the government’s leading and promoting，the work of cultural volunteer service has made remarkable achievements in network construction，standardized management，carriers innovation，brand building and expansion of the service in the past five years. Under the new development situation，the cultural volunteer service in China is facing the important tasks of building the cultural volunteer service system with extensive participation，rich contents，diverse forms and sound mechanism.