The purpose of this study was to investigate employees’ perceptions and attitudes toward the privatization of the Chinese Petroleum Corporation. The results revealed that perception of privatization includes seven factors: (1) privatization policy and industrial attributes, (2) improvement of management first, (3) consideration of employees’ equity and opinions, (4) rigidity and conservativeness in the system, (5) confirmation of the effects of privatization, (6) anxiety about job change, and (7) concern for management performance. Attitudes toward privatization can be discriminated effectively by the first five factors. Moreover, except for ‘confirmation of the effects of privatization’ and ‘concern for management performance’, the other perception factors had significant differences in demographic variables, while the attitudes toward privatization had significant differences only in education and job grades.