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
- OCTOBER 12, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chinese cooperation in the global war on terrorism...
Chinese cooperation in the global war on terrorism depends on Western support and understanding for Beijing's widely criticized attempts to resolve its own Islamic terrorist problem
- OCTOBER 11, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Eleven people were executed in Kunming, capital of...
Eleven people were executed in Kunming, capital of the Yunnan province, the Yunnan Daily reported
- OCTOBER 11, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A man who killed his former girlfriend's parents 15...
A man who killed his former girlfriend's parents 15 years ago was captured and sentenced to death by the Beijing Second Intermediate Court
- OCTOBER 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China sentenced to death a former vice mayor of the...
China sentenced to death a former vice mayor of the northeastern city of Shenyang for his involvement in a web of corruption around City Hall, state television reported
- OCTOBER 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China joined the U
China joined the U
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six convicted criminals were executed in south China,...
Six convicted criminals were executed in south China, after mass sentencing rallies organised in two different locations in the city of Zhuhai, just north of Macau
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Yao Xiaohong, the Chinese reporter who exposed the...
Yao Xiaohong, the Chinese reporter who exposed the unauthorised removal of organs from executed prisoners by Chinese authorities, was sacked again for damaging interests of senior officials, the Hong Kong Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Communist Party's top disciplinary unit ousted...
The Communist Party's top disciplinary unit ousted two former senior provincial officials - former Yunnan governor Li Jiating and Fujian province's former deputy party secretary, Shi Zhaobin - for alleged corruption, paving the way for their trials
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Islamic militants faced the execution squad, stupefied...
Islamic militants faced the execution squad, stupefied by drink and driven to their deaths on an open lorry past laughing crowds
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in east China's Zhejiang Province sentenced...
A court in east China's Zhejiang Province sentenced five men to death for minting and selling one million fake one-yuan coins
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In a report published this month, Amnesty International...
In a report published this month, Amnesty International criticized the so-called strike hard campaign against separatists
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two men were found guilty of murder and executed at...
Two men were found guilty of murder and executed at a city sports stadium, in front of 3,000 people in Huanggang, a rundown city in the central province of Hubei