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
- JANUARY 25, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTY
PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA: LESS FROM THE POPULACE BUT MORE FROM ELITES
An article published online by Cambridge University Press is the first to report the nationwide public support rate for the death penalty in China.
JANUARY 21, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN WHO KILLED JUDGE OVER DIVORCE TRIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH
A man in China was sentenced to death on 18 January 2021 for killing the judge who presided over his divorce.
- JANUARY 14, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTY
EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN TURKEY, CHINA ENDANGERS UIGHUR REFUGEES
The Uighur community in Turkey could be in jeopardy after a recent agreement was reached between Turkey and China, Voice Of America (VOA) wrote on 7 January 2021.
- JANUARY 13, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTY
POLAND: SWEDISH LI ZHIHUI COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY IF EXTRADITED TO CHINA
Swedish Falun Gong activist Li Zhihui, 53, risks being extradited to China after he has been detained in Poland for almost two years.
- JANUARY 12, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FUGITIVE WHO KILLED THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH
Zeng Chunliang, a man who killed three people within six days last year, was sentenced to death by the Yichun Intermediate People's Court in Jiangxi province on 11 January 2021.
JANUARY 5, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: EX-CHAIRMAN OF HUARONG ASSET MANAGEMENT SENTENCED TO DEATH
The former chairman of China’s Huarong Asset Management Co was sentenced to death, a court in the northern city of Tianjin said on 5 January 2021, in one of the country’s highest profile corruption cases.
DECEMBER 29, 2020ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: COURT REINSTATES DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL
The High People's Court in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region reheard the case of the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl, reversing the second trial verdict and sentencing the perpetrator to death.
DECEMBER 7, 2020ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN WHO KILLED SCHOOLBOYS EXECUTED
Huang Yichuan, the man who killed two 10-year-olds near the gate of an elementary school in Shanghai, was executed on 4 December 2020, the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court announced.
- NOVEMBER 26, 2020ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: HEBEI MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 4 RAPES, 3 MURDERS
Wang Shujin, a man from Hebei province, was sentenced to death for intentional homicide by the Handan Intermediate People's Court in Hebei on 24 November 2020 after a retrial.
NOVEMBER 7, 2020ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: HENGFENG BANK EX-CHAIRMAN CAI SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE
A Chinese court sentenced on 6 November 2020 the former chairman of Hengfeng Bank, Cai Guohua, to death with two-year reprieve after convicting him of abuse of power, corruption, embezzlement, receiving bribes and illegal loans, the court said.
NOVEMBER 5, 2020ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: NURSE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING AND COOKING DOCTOR WHO BLACKMAILED HER INTO SEX
A nurse in China on 30 October 2020 was sentenced to death for serious theft and intentional homicide.
NOVEMBER 3, 2020ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: GANG LEADER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN QINGHAI
A court in Qinghai province sentenced a leader of a mafia-style gang to death on 30 October 2020 for more than 10 crimes, including intentional homicide, and handed 38 other gang members prison terms ranging from two years to life.