Ganqing (Traditional Chinese: 感情; Pinyin: gănqíng) is an important concept in Chinese social relations which is loosely translated as "feeling" and is related to the concept of guanxi. Ganqing reflects the tenor of a social relationship between two people or two organizations. One can speak of having good ganqing meaning that two people have a good rapport or deep ganqing meaning that there is considerable feeling within a social relationship. Traditional Chinese characters refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ... Pinyin, more formally called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... Chinese social relations are social relations typified by a reciprocal social network. ... Guanxi (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: gÅ«anxi ), describes the basic dynamic in personalised networks of influence. ...

The term ganqing is often seen in comments by the government of the People's Republic of China, and is often mistranslated when used in this context. Often one will see a statement that an action "hurts the feelings of the Chinese people." This statement is better translated as an action "disturbs the relationship with the Chinese people." When used in this context the statement is actually implicitly threatening that should the action continue, that cooperation would not be forthcoming in the future. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Government of the Peoples Republic of China. ...