Objective To translate Inventory of Motivations for Hospice Palliative Care Volunteerism (IMHPCV) from English to Chinese, to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Chinese version, and to provide a tool for evaluating the motivation of Chinese hospice care volunteers. Methods The Brislin translation model was used for translation and back-translation of IMHPCV, then cultural adjustment and pilot testing was done to form a Chinese version, which was later used to surveyed 260 hospice care volunteers in Beijing and Tianjin. Item analysis,validity and reliability analysis of the Chinese version of IMHPCV were run. Results The Chinese version of IMHPCV included the following 5 dimensions: altruism, civic responsibility, self-promotion, leisure, personal gain, involving 25 items.I-CVI of the scale were 0.833-1.000, and S-CVI was 0.973. Five common factors were extracted from exploratory factor analysis, and the cumulative contribution rate of variance was 73.390%. The Cronbach′s α coefficient was 0.934 for the overall scale, and 0.896 to 0.917 for the dimensions.The split-half reliability was 0.868. The test-retest reliability was 0.913 for the overall scale,and 0.732-0.957 for the dimensions. Conclusion The Chinese version of INHPCV enjoys good reliability and validity, and it is suitable for measurement of motivation of hospice care volunteers in China.