Economy: slavery came into being and began to develop around the Xia Dynasty; Further development of Shang dynasty; The Western Zhou Dynasty entered its heyday.

The Spring and Autumn Period entered a period of disintegration.

During the Warring States period, feudalism came into being; Qin and Han dynasties are the development period; Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties is a period of further development; Sui and Tang dynasties were the heyday; The Song and Yuan Dynasties were a period of continuous development. Decline between Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Ideology and culture: The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period is a period in which a hundred schools of thought contend; The Qin dynasty was the period when legalist thought dominated; The early Western Han Dynasty was the dominant period of Huang Lao's inaction thought. The period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was the period when a hundred Confucian schools were deposed. Since then, Confucianism has occupied the dominant position of China Thought. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Buddhism was introduced into China. Taoism came into being in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, western learning spread to the east, and western ideas began to be introduced into China.

In the late Qing Dynasty, western bourgeois liberalism was introduced into China.

At the end of the May 4th Movement, Marxism was introduced into China.

After 1949, Marxism dominated.

Politics: enfeoffment system in the pre-Qin period.

After the Qin dynasty, it was an imperial system, that is; Centralized emperor system; And the county system at the local level; In the Han Dynasty, feudalism and county system coexisted at the local level. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the central government was a prime minister system, and after the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was a system of three provinces and six departments, indicating that the centralization of feudal countries was greatly strengthened. Zhu Yuanzhang stopped talking in the Ming Dynasty, and Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty set up a military department, indicating that the centralization of feudal countries reached its peak.

The Republic of China is a bourgeois republic. After its founding, People's Republic of China (PRC) is a socialist republic under the people's democratic dictatorship and a unitary state.