China
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- communist state
- CONSTITUTION
- December 4, 1982, amended several times, last in 2004.
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on civil law, of Soviet derivation and derived from the legal principles of the continental civil code
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National People's Congress (Quanguo Renmin Daibiao Dahui)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme People's Court, judges appointed by the National People's Congress; local people's courts and special people's courts
RELIGIONS
Buddhists 18.2%, Christians 5.1%, Muslims 1.8%, others 0.7%, unspecified 52.2%
From the country
- JUNE 1, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. ZHEJIANG PROVINCE TO EXECUTE PEOPLE BY LETHAL INJECTION
the Zhejiang Provincial Supreme Court announced that as of September 1 the province would start to implement death by lethal injection instead of putting convicts before a firing squad.
- JUNE 1, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. HONG KONG MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Li Qingyuan and an accomplice, Liu Xisong, were sentenced to death by a court in the southern town of Shenzhen, bordering Hong Kong, after being convicted of drug trafficking.
- MAY 31, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING PIMP
Deng Jianping was sentenced to death with a reprieve of two years by the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court for manslaughter.
- MAY 31, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. THREE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ORGANIZED CRIME
three leaders of a 31-member organized crime ring in east China were given death sentences after being convicted of 10 charges, including murder.
- MAY 30, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MIGRANT WORKER TO BE EXECUTED FOR KILLING RICH SHOPPERS
Ai Xuqiang, a migrant Chinese worker who stabbed a taxi driver, stole his cab and mowed down two shoppers in an upmarket area because he resented their wealth was sentenced to death by the Beijing Municipal No. 2 Intermediate People's Court.
- MAY 26, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
EUROPEAN UNION. EU PRESSES CHINA ON TORTURE, DEATH PENALTY
the European Union pressed China about its use of torture and the death penalty as EU and Chinese officials wrapped up two days of meetings on human rights issues.
- MAY 25, 2006CanadaDEATH PENALTY
CANADA. PRIME MINISTER 'INSISTS' CHINESE FUGITIVE SHOULD NOT FACE DEATH PENALTY
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he will "insist" that fugitive Lai Changxing should not face the death penalty if returned to China, a sanction Beijing had declined to rule out.
- MAY 24, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN EXECUTED IN GUANGDONG FOR MURDER
gang member Zhou, 33, Yanfan in Chaozhou in China’s Guangdong Province, was convicted of murder and possessing two handguns. In 1995, Zhou reportedly joined a gang led by Zheng Huang, who later died in a fight.
- MAY 24, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. 2 OFFICERS, BUSINESSMAN GET DEATH FOR MURDER
two police officers from Fuzhou in China’s Fujian Province were sentenced to death together with businessman Xu Chengping for killing Xu’s business rival.
- MAY 23, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. VIDEO RECORDING TO BE USED IN DEATH SENTENCE CASES
China's courts will allow video cameras to record proceedings of appeal hearings involving death sentences, said Chief Justice Xiao Yang.
- MAY 23, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN EXECUTED FOR CHILD KILLINGS
convicted paedophile Chen Qiangsheng, 35, was executed in Huanggang in China’s Hubei Province for kidnapping six boys in 2005 and killing four of them.
- MAY 19, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. MOSCOW TO SEEK RETURN OF DRUG DEALERS FACING EXECUTION IN CHINA
Russian parliamentarians will make every effort to achieve the return of two Russians arrested for drug dealing in China so they avoid the death penalty, said Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the State Duma's international affairs committee.