China Continental (chino simplificado: 中国大陆, chino tradicional: 中國大陸, pinyin: Zhōnggúo Dàlù, literalmente continente chino) es la denominación convencional para la zona de China bajo la soberanía efectiva de la República Popular China, sin incluir a los territorios de Hong Kong y Macao, antiguas colonias europeas, ni a la isla de Taiwán. Esta última, junto con varios archipiélagos menores como las Islas Pescadores, Kinmen (o Quemoy) y Matsu, se encuentra bajo la soberanía efectiva del régimen de la República de China, vestigio del antiguo Estado que gobernó toda China hasta la victoria de las fuerzas del Partido Comunista de China al final de la Guerra Civil China en 1949.

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Mainland China, also known as the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is the geopolitical area under the direct jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It generally excludes the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau; however, it usually includes Hainan. The term "mainland China", which avoids calling the area simply "China" and thereby recognizing the founding of the PRC as the "China", was coined by the Kuomintang (KMT) after it took control of Taiwan, after World War II by Japan. By 1949, the KMT-led Republic of China (ROC) government was defeated in the Chinese Civil War on the mainland and fled to the island of Taiwan, and pledged to "retake the Mainland". The KMT considers both sides of the Taiwan Strait (including Taiwan), as (one) "China" and one country, whereas Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) considers only mainland China as "China" and Taiwan (ROC) as "Taiwan" and maintains that they are different countries. There are two terms in Chinese for "mainland". Namely, Dàlù (大陆; 大陸), which means "continent", and Nèidì (内地; 內地), literally "inland" or "inner land". In the PRC, the usage of the two terms are generally interchangeable and there is no prescribed method of reference in any jurisdiction. To emphasize "equal footing" in cross-strait relations, the term is used in official contexts with reference to Taiwan, with the PRC referring to itself as "the mainland side" (as opposed to "the Taiwan side"). But in its relations with Hong Kong and Macau, the PRC government refers to itself as "the Central People's Government". "Mainland" area is the opposing term to "Free area of the Republic of China" used in the ROC Constitution, as amended in April, 2000, which treats the "mainland" as part of ROC's territory despite lack of control.

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