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 9, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hu Guohua and his girlfriend Fan Shue were executed...
Hu Guohua and his girlfriend Fan Shue were executed by lethal injection in China after being sentenced to death for murder by the Shizuishan city court in the northwestern Ningxia region
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three people were executed in China after being convicted...
Three people were executed in China after being convicted of stealing six luxury vehicles and strangling their drivers
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese court sentenced two drug dealers to death...
A Chinese court sentenced two drug dealers to death after they dismembered the body of a gang member who died when transporting heroin in his stomach
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The deputy manager of a state-run company in China's...
The deputy manager of a state-run company in China's northeastern Jilin province was executed for embezzlement
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Five Taiwanese nationals were sentenced to death in...
Five Taiwanese nationals were sentenced to death in southeast China's Fujian province after being convicted of trafficking the illegal methamphetamine drug 'ice'
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
in September 2004, Xinjiang Party Secretary Wang Lequan disclosed...
in September 2004, Xinjiang Party Secretary Wang Lequan disclosed...
- AUGUST 31, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The former deputy manager of the state-run International...
The former deputy manager of the state-run International Trade and Development Corp, Qiao Benping, was executed in China's northe-astern province of Jilin for embezzling 14
- AUGUST 26, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhang Kunpeng, Xu Lei and Hu Guofeng, were executed...
Zhang Kunpeng, Xu Lei and Hu Guofeng, were executed in China on order of the Shanghai Higher People's Court
- AUGUST 25, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese woman facing possible execution for trafficking...
A Chinese woman facing possible execution for trafficking heroin was forced by police to have an abortion so she could be punished, Afp reported
- AUGUST 20, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Yijiang, a man convicted of killing and cutting...
Li Yijiang, a man convicted of killing and cutting off the genitals of six men he accused of gang-raping him, was executed
- AUGUST 19, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
three men, named Zu Feng, Sun Liang, and Sun Liansheng were executed
three men, named Zu Feng, Sun Liang, and Sun Liansheng were executed
- AUGUST 16, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A relics conservation official was sentenced to death...
A relics conservation official was sentenced to death in what state media described as the largest antiquities theft case since the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949