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In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes to use complex network analysis of word co-occurrence networks, which have been successfully applied to the language analysis research and can tackle global characters and explore the differences between simplified and traditional Chinese. Specially, we first constructed a word co-occurrence network for simplified and traditional Chinese using selected news corpora. Then, the complex network analysis methods were performed, including network statistics analysis, kernel lexicon comparison, and motif analysis, to gain a global understanding of these networks. After that, the networks were compared based on the properties obtained. Through comparison, we can obtain three interesting results: first, the co-occurrence networks of simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese are both small-world and scale-free networks. 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