This article investigates the stickiness of audit fees using 2001—2011 data of Chinese listed companies for the first time. The results indicate that owing to the adjusting cost, long term contract and price regulation, there was also stickiness in the audit fees of Chinese listed companies, but the direction of stickiness is downward, namely the audit fees tend to increase rather than decrease when facing with the same degree of asset change. Furthermore, the market share of audit firm enhances the downward stickiness while the reputation of Big 4 as well as the client importance exerts no significant effect on the downward stickiness.