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 5, 2017ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: NEW CYBERSECURITY LAW CARRIES DEATH PENALTY FOR SOME OFFENSES
China's latest cybersecurity law came into force last week and the sky did not fall and companies have not shuttered.
MAY 30, 2017ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: LIU ZHIJUN, EX-RAILWAY MINISTER, SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CORRUPTION
China handed down a suspended death sentence on a former railways minister for corruption, state media said, a case seen as a test of President Xi Jinping’s resolve to crack down on pervasive graft.
APRIL 22, 2017ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN EXECUTED FOR KILLING TWO YOUNG WOMEN, RAPING CORPSE
China’s Supreme People's Court (SPC) announced that a criminal convicted intentional homicide had been executed after the SPC approved the death sentence.
- MARCH 12, 2017ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China's court system concluded 45,000 graft cases in 2016, implicating 63,000 people, a work report of the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said Sunday.
China's court system concluded 45,000 graft cases in 2016, implicating 63,000 people, a work report of the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said Sunday.
FEBRUARY 28, 2017ChinaDEATH PENALTYCOLOMBIA PROTESTS CHINA'S EXECUTION OF 72-YEAR-OLD DRUG MULE
Colombia's government is protesting China's execution of a retired journalist who was sentenced to death for smuggling cocaine into the Asian country.
- JANUARY 1, 2017ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In February 2011, China dropped the death penalty for 13 non-violent crimes
In February 2011, China dropped the death penalty for 13 non-violent crimes
- DECEMBER 30, 2016ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: ARSONIST SENTENCED TO DEATH
A man convicted of setting a bus on fire two years ago was sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
DECEMBER 2, 2016ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: WRONGLY EXECUTED MAN ACQUITTED BY TOP COURT
Nie Shubin, who was executed 21 years ago for rape and murder, had his conviction overturned by China's top court.
NOVEMBER 15, 2016ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA EXECUTES MAN WHO KILLED OFFICIAL AFTER HOME DEMOLISHED
A Chinese man who killed a village official after his home was forcibly demolished was executed, a court
- NOVEMBER 9, 2016ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA COURT HANDS DEATH SENTENCE OVER WAREHOUSE BLASTS
A chairman of a Chinese logistics company was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in relation to
OCTOBER 21, 2016ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: LAW EXPERTS OPPOSE SENTENCE OF IMMEDIATE EXECUTION
Several Chinese law experts have voiced their opposition to the immediate execution of a suspect who was
- OCTOBER 9, 2016ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: CORRUPT YUNNAN PARTY BOSS SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE
China has sentenced the former Communist Party boss from the southwestern province of Yunnan to death