The invention discloses a method and system for mining Chinese event information. The method includes the steps of defining an event sample model based on the mining requirement, instantiating the event sample model to obtain a seed event, taking the seed event as the foundation of an event mined from an original text, conducting preprocessing on the original text to obtain a candidate template set, conducting information labeling on the seed event, processing the seed event on the basis of labeling information to obtain a seed template set, then, processing the candidate template set through an iterative method according to the grade scores of candidate templates and the semantic similarity between the candidate templates and seed templates so that an event mining anchor set can be obtained, and obtaining the event types corresponding to mining event anchors according to the lexical semantic similarity between each event mining anchor in the event mining anchor set and any seed event anchor in the seed event set. The aim of mining the Chinese event information from the original text can be achieved only by labeling a small amount of samples, namely, the seed events, and the mining cost is reduced.