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Geopolymer not only possesses the combined excellent properties of organic polymer materials, ceramic materials and cement materials, but also has many advantages such as low production energy consumption and carbon emissions, wide raw material source, and excessive consumption of solid wastes. Therefore, it has rapidly become a research hotspot in the field of inorganic cementitious material in recent years. After introducing the calcium component into geopolymer system, the interaction processes among the main gel phases may become more complicated. Moreover, microstructure and the main performance of geopolymer may be greatly affected. In this paper, we systematically review the research developments in Ca_containing geopolymer, with a particular summary and analysis on the way of introducing calcium component during geopolymer preparing process, as well as the influence rule and action mechanism of calcium component on microstructure and performance (including setting time, compressive strength, solidification/stabilization of heavy metals, resistance to chemical attack, al kali - aggregate reaction, thermal stability, and resistance to efflorescence) of geopolymer. Tt would provide technical reference for performance control and application study of C