The invention discloses a Chinese question-answering system based on a neural network, which comprises a user interface module, a question word pre-segmentation module, a nerve cell pre-tagging module, a learning and training module, a nerve cell knowledge base module, a semantic block identification module, a question set index module and an answer reasoning module. The system comprises the steps of: firstly adopting an SIE encoding mode to encode the in-vocabulary words of the semantic block according to corresponding position, later converting an identification problem of the question semantic block into a tagging classification problem, and then adopting a classification model based on the neural network to determine the semantic structure of the question, and finally combing the semantic structure of the question to realize the question similarity computation based on the neural network and comparing the weight of various semantic features of the question by extracting the tagged semantic features of the question, thereby providing a basis for final answer reasoning. The Chinese question-answering system integrates the syntax, the semantics and the contextual knowledge of the question and can simulate the process that human beings process the sentence.