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
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China. Death penalty for corruption to remain for now
officials with the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislative body, denied discussions were under way to abolish the use of capital punishment for those involved in serious economic crimes.
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
a campaign in Xinjiang targeting the "three evils" of religious extremism...
a campaign in Xinjiang targeting the "three evils" of religious extremism...
- AUGUST 26, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CORRUPTION
a local court in Central China's Hunan Province sentenced Li Shubiao to death for embezzling around 120 million yuan (US$14.8 million).
- AUGUST 23, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. TWO CONDEMNED FOR DEADLY LAND GRAB ARSON
two real estate agents were sentenced to death in Shanghai, China, for torching the homes of residents who refused to relocate for a development project, killing an elderly couple.
- AUGUST 19, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. EIGHT CHINESE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DEADLY CRIMES IN CAMBODIA
a court in China condemned eight Chinese to death for a series of kidnappings and robberies in Cambodia in which at least 10 people were killed.
- AUGUST 19, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
a Vietnam court sentenced Chang Yuchia, 20, a Chinese national, to death for drug trafficking
a Vietnam court sentenced Chang Yuchia, 20, a Chinese national, to death for drug trafficking
- AUGUST 12, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. EX-BANK OF CHINA EXECUTIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE FOR GRAFT
Liu Jinbao, a former senior executive of the Bank of China accused of corruption, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, the Xinhua news agency reported.
- AUGUST 10, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. GANG CHIEFS GET DEATH FOR SELLING 82 CHILDREN
a Fujian Province court, China, handed down death sentences to the leaders of two gangs that bought more than 80 children from their parents and sold them in Singapore.
- AUGUST 9, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HEROIN TRAFFICKING, EXECUTED AFTER PASSING OF SENTENCE
in its final trial, the Foshan City Intermediate People's Court in Guangdong Province, China, upheld the original verdict sentencing Guo Jizong, Zhang Fajian and Peng Guowei to death and Li Shaoze and Wang Jiazhang to life imprisonment for drug traffickin
- AUGUST 8, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR TRAFFICKING CHILDREN TO SINGAPORE
Ke Pangjie, a man convicted of running a child trafficking ring that sold 44 children to Singapore over a five-year period, was sentenced in China's southeastern city of Quanzhou, with partners Wu Wenbin and Sheng Zhenzhong getting life imprisonment and 1
- AUGUST 8, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HEROIN TRAFFICKING
in its initial trial, the Haikou City Intermediate People's Court in Hainan Province, China, sentenced Wang Chunliang, Zhou Bing, Huang Bin, LI Haichun and Wu Xiaobo to death for trafficking in more than six kg of narcotics.
- AUGUST 7, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. EXECUTION POLICY KEEPS FUGITIVES SAFE ABROAD
China's lack of key extradition treaties and heavy hand with the death penalty was allowing many escaped corrupt officials to stay far from the arm of Chinese law, the state-run Xinhua Daily Telegraph reported.