Although the construction of cultural soft power has been strategically positioned by the Chinese government, the one-way cultural export may have to struggle constantly with market failure and government failure. Previous researches on outbound cultural translation focus more on the micro level studies without attaching adequate attention to holistic studies targeting at root causes, which is not sufficient to solve its acceptance problem. Fortunately, social marketing theory can provide a solution. Built upon the positive value of culture export and exchange, starting from demand creation, social marketing can be applied to transform the potential demand of other countries for Chinese culture into the actual one adopting marketing theories and techniques, so as to change their limited views towards the Chinese culture.