历史
Base on Mainland's definition, what is “中国近代史”？
中国近代史，是指1840年鸦片战争至1949年中华人民共和国成立这个时期的历史，前后大约110年。
What is the relationship between Taiwan and mainland China now and before?
In 1949, the nationalist government (国民党) is defeated by the communist and retreated to Taiwan Island.
Today, the government in Taiwan is still called “ 中华民国”（ROC）， but the new government in mainland is called “中华人民共和国”(PRC)。
what are the differences between 计划经济 and 市场经济？
you know this from our presentation.
what is "抗日战争"
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937, to September 2, 1945
what is "两会"？
全国两会 refers to the annual plenary sessions of the two organizations that make national-level political decisions: the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
what do you know about "改革开放"？（list 3）
The Chinese economic reform or reform and opening-up, is the program of economic reforms termed "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "socialist market economy" in PRC. Led by Deng Xiaoping, the reforms were launched in 1978. China's economy has grown rapid rapidly since.
In detail, it involved the de-collectivization of agriculture, the opening up of the country to foreign investment, and permission for entrepreneurs to start businesses, the privatization and contracting out of much state-owned industry. The 1985 lifting of price controls was a major reform, and the lifting of protectionist policies and regulations soon followed, although state monopolies in sectors such as banking and petroleum remained.
what is 大跃进
Great Leap Forward: In an attempt to break with the Russian model of Communism and to catch up with more advanced nations, Mao proposed that China should make a "great leap forward" into modernization. He began a Five Year Plan to promote technology and agricultural self-sufficiency. Overnight, fertile rice fields were ploughed over, and factory construction work began. Labor-intensive methods were introduced and small farms. The campaign created about 23,500 communes, each controlling its own means of production. But former farmers had no idea how to actually use the new factories and what was once fertile crop land went to waste on a disastrous scale. Mao decreed an overnight transition from family or small cooperative farms to vast People's Communes, while calling for absurdly high increases in grain production. The results were devastating. From 1959 to 1961, as many as 30 million Chinese died as a direct or indirect result of Great Leap policies.
What are the political systems in mainland and Taiwan?Taking about politics in Taiwan, what does the color of blue and green represent respectively?
The political system in the mainland: 共产主义/ 社会主义The political system in Taiwan: 资本主义
Two political parties in Taiwan:
国民党， represented by the color blue, supports a one-China policy.
民进党(民主进步党)， represented by the color green, wants Taiwan's independence.
Demographic dividend is "the economic growth potential that can result from shifts in a population’s age structure, mainly when the share of the working-age population (15 to 64) is larger than the non-working-age share of the population (14 and younger, and 65 and older)". In other words, it is “a boost in economic productivity that occurs when there are growing numbers of people in the workforce relative to the number of dependents”.
what is "五四运动"
The May Fourth Movement was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on 4 May 1919.
Students protested against the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially allowing Japan to retain territories in Shandong that had been surrendered by Germany after the Siege of Tsingtao in 1914. The demonstrations sparked nation-wide protests and spurred an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, a shift towards political mobilization and away from cultural activities, and a move towards a mass base and away from traditional intellectual and political elites. Many radical, political, and social leaders of the next five decades emerged at this time. The term "May Fourth Movement" in a broader sense often refers to the period during 1915–1921 more often called the New Culture Movement.
简单介绍：六四事件（天安门事件）
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (六四事件), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, in 1989. More broadly, it refers to the popular national movement inspired by the Beijing protests during that period, sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement (八九民运). The protests were forcibly suppressed after the government declared martial law.
what is 中国威胁论 ?
The China Threat Theory is the belief that the rise of the Chinese mainland raises concerns and poses threats. With the rapid development of the Chinese mainland, the interests of its neighboring countries and the international order have been challenged. Threats include economic, military, Food, population and even space. Some commentators have pointed out that the dictatorship system in mainland China is the main cause of the threat theory. Chinese officials believe that the threat theory stems from a post-Cold War argument that Western countries use to suppress China's development.
what is "国共内战" (2次）
The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China (ROC) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) lasting intermittently between 1927 and 1949. The war is generally divided into two phases with an interlude:
from August 1927 to 1937, the KMT-CPC Alliance collapsed during the Northern Expedition, and the Nationalists controlled most of China.
From 1937 to 1945, hostilities were put on hold, and the Second United Front fought the Japanese invasion of China with eventual help from the World War II Allies. The civil war resumed with the Japanese defeat, and the CPC gained the upper hand in the final phase of the war from 1945–1949, generally referred to as the Revolution. The Communists gained control of mainland China and established the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, forcing the Republic of China to retreat to the island of Taiwan.[9] A lasting political and military standoff between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait ensued, with the ROC in Taiwan and the PRC in mainland China both officially claiming to be the legitimate government of all China. No armistice or peace treaty was ever signed, and the debate continues as to whether the civil war has legally ended.
简单介绍：文化大革命
The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China from 1966 until 1976. Launched by Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC), its stated goal was to preserve Chinese Communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought (known outside China as Maoism) as the dominant ideology in the CPC. The Revolution marked Mao's return to a position of power after a period of less radical leadership to recover from the failures of the Great Leap Forward, whose policies led to famine and approximately 30 million deaths only five years earlier. The Cultural Revolution damaged China's economy while tens of millions of people were persecuted, with an estimated death toll ranging from hundreds of thousands to 20 million.
what is the differences between "粗放型经济" and "集约型经济"
粗放型经济 basically is to expand the scale of production and achieve economic growth by increasing the input of production factors, eg. investment, expanding factory buildings, and increasing labor input. this mode can grow economy but the cost is high, product quality is low, economic benefits are low, and damage the environment and all.
集约型经济 is the very opposite. on the basis of unchanged production scale, it achieves economic growth through technological progress, improve the quality of labor and increase the utilization rate of capital, equipment, raw materials, etc.