This study examines the effects of the college student children's filial piety to their parents on perceived helicopter parenting among college student children in China. Data were collected from 288 college student children in ten four-year-course colleges located in the large cities of China. The measurement consisted of the 'Filial Piety Scale' and the 'Helicopter Parenting Scale'.The major findings of this study are as follows: First, the college students in China showed generally high levels of filial piety. The levels of instrumental filial piety were the highest among four factors of filial piety, followed by the normative filial piety, expressive filial piety, and adulthood filial piety in order. They also reported moderate levels of perceived helicopter parenting. Second, among the students' demographic characteristics, only family income was positively related to their perceived helicopter parenting. Finally, the hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that the students' perceived helicopter parenting was negatively related to the levels of adulthood filial piety and instrumental filial piety, while positively related to the levels of normative filial piety.