Introduction: Positive emotions in depressed patients are always disregarded and overlooked due to the inadequacy of assessment tool. There is a newly developed self-report scale, yet has good psychometric properties named Positive Emotion Rating Scale (PERS). Objective: The aim of this study were to translate and examine the psychometric properties of the Chinese version PERS (PERS-C). Method: This is a cross-sectional study involved 52 depressed and 106 control subject. Both groups were assessed with PERS-C, original PERS, Malay version of Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS-M) and Malay version of Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CESDM). Results: PERS-C displayed good internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = 0.91) and parallel reliability with PERS (r = 0.95, p