The National Center for Industrial Science and Technology Management Development (at Dalian) introduced case study and simulated- decision- teaching into the training program for the first time in China. In 1980, the Case Center was established. Before the start of the program, five experts from the US and eight teachers from the Case Center complicated the case-composing group. This group had complied the first 83 volumes of Chinese teaching cases based on in-depth investigation and interview carried on the Chinese enterprises. By combining with the translation of hundreds of cases brought by American experts, in December 1980, the Center edited and published the first China’s case study book called “Introduction of Case Study” in details. Hereafter some universities and management training institutions began the trail of case study one after another. These became the wealth of the Case Center. In 1985, the book called “Compilation of Enterprise Management Case” was published officially.

The management case teaching has came into Chinese classroom since 1980, when the China’s and U.S. governments signed the agreement of the National Center for Industrial Science and Technology Management Development (at Dalian). In 1982, the U.S. and Chinese faculty members worked together to develop Chinese management cases for enterprises in China’s four major cities;In 1986, the former State Economic and Trade Commission allocated 600,000 RMB to build China's first management case database;In May 2007, with the support of the National MBA Education Steering Committee, the China Management Case-sharing Center (CMCC) located in SEM was established, DUT, of which members include all the universities with MBA program in China.

With the aim of unified standard, decentralized construction, joint participation and resource sharing, CMCC focuses on the construction of case database, case training for faculty members, the construction of academic journals and case databases and international exchange and cooperation, and is committed to promoting and improving the teaching and research level of case management in China.

At present, CMCC database includes more than 5,200 cases. A think-tank is established with more than 730 review experts. It provides 280 member institutions with more than 31,000 registered users with case teaching and academic research. The total number of views is over 22.30 million person-times and the daily maximum number of views reaches 16,647 person-times.

CMCC holds annual case training for all institutions with MBA programs, specialized training for faculty members in the universities of western China,annual academic conference of management case, selection of National 100 Excellent Management Cases and National Management Case Elite Competition every year. Through a series of activities, CMCC effectively advocates in-depth research on the actual problems of enterprise management in China and extracts management thoughts and theories with Chinese characteristics. CMCC has also been approved to publish the first case-based professional academic journal in China, Journal of Management Case Studies, which was founded in January 2008 and published in bimonthly, and has been selected as the CSSCI source journal since 2014.

CMCC has built partnership with more than ten overseas universities, such as Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, and Harvard Business School and promotes the internationalization of Chinese localized cases.

In January 2013, based on the Chinese Management Case-sharing Center, CMCC Alliance and Professional Committee on Management Case Studies of Chinese Academy of Management were established. In April 2017, the Enterprise Council and over 70 enterprise case bases were established. CMCC makes a great contribution to the Chinese business education development with professional and standardized operation.