To examine whether parents’ cultural values are related to parenting practices and children’s behavioural adjustment,mothers, fathers and children (N = 218) from two cities in China (Jinan and Shanghai) were interviewed whenchildren were, on average, 10 years old. Mothers and fathers reported their endorsement of cultural values (individualism,collectivism, conformity), which were used to separately predict warmth and family obligation expectations reportedby each parent, as well as children’s report of parental psychological control, rule setting, knowledge solicitationand perceived family obligation expectations. Cross-informant (parents and child) composites of internalising andexternalising behaviours were also obtained. The results showed that maternal individualism positively predictedparents’ knowledge solicitation. Parental collectivism positively predicted their own warmth and family obligationexpectations. Mothers’ conformity positively predicted mothers’ family obligation expectations, paternal warmth andchildren’s perception of family obligation, whereas fathers’ conformity only positively predicted fathers’ family obligationexpectations. These effects were largely consistent across regional subsamples, although mothers in Jinan were morecollectivistic than mothers in Shanghai, and parents in Shanghai adopted less psychological control and more knowledgesolicitation in parenting.