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
- AUGUST 8, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court imposed...
The shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court imposed the death penalty on Cui Yun for killing his former wife
- AUGUST 8, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Fajian was sentenced to death for his part in stabbing...
Li Fajian was sentenced to death for his part in stabbing a British woman
- AUGUST 6, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A sterile man who killed a family of four after learning...
A sterile man who killed a family of four after learning that the eldest son had slept with his wife, who wanted to conceive, was been sentenced to death
- AUGUST 5, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court said...
The shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court said it had imposed the death penalty on Huang Shanbin for kidnapping a 10-year-old boy
- AUGUST 1, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Guangzhou, in China's Guangdong Province,...
A court in Guangzhou, in China's Guangdong Province, sentenced Zhou Chengqiu, director of the Dangerous Building Renovation and Construction Administration Institution, to death with a two year reprieve for accepting 7m yuan in bribes
- JULY 31, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hui Jinbo and Li Junlin, two Chinese men who drowned...
Hui Jinbo and Li Junlin, two Chinese men who drowned seven people in bath tubs after robbing a Beijing bath house, were sentenced to death by the No
- JULY 29, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Feng, an elementary school teacher in Tonghua city,...
Li Feng, an elementary school teacher in Tonghua city, in northeast China's Jilin Province, was sentenced to death and executed for raping and molesting 19 girl students under the age of 14
- JULY 28, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The No 2 Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing convicted...
The No 2 Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing convicted six men of murdering and dismembering six people in the city's Wanzhou area
- JULY 20, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Mo Jifeng, a 27 year-old Internet surfer, was sentenced...
Mo Jifeng, a 27 year-old Internet surfer, was sentenced to death by a Shanghai court for robbing and murdering a friend he met in an Internet chat room
- JULY 18, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ma Xin, a Beijing man, was sentenced to death by the...
Ma Xin, a Beijing man, was sentenced to death by the Beijing intermediate court on for counterfeiting official corporate stamps and financial documents
- JULY 18, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four ring leaders of a gang in south-west China's Sichuan...
Four ring leaders of a gang in south-west China's Sichuan province were sentenced to death
- JULY 10, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Pan Rongyu, an unemployed man from Shanghai, was sentenced...
Pan Rongyu, an unemployed man from Shanghai, was sentenced to death for multiple crimes, including assault and rape