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 30, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Changsha City's Intermediate People's Court carried...
Changsha City's Intermediate People's Court carried out the first trial in a major bombing case, which resulted in five dead and four injured, that occurred in Liuyang City's Dayao Township
- AUGUST 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Local media reported that four members of a gang in...
Local media reported that four members of a gang in southern China that kidnapped children, mostly babies, and sold them to rural families were executed
- AUGUST 21, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xinhua, the official state news agency reported that...
Xinhua, the official state news agency reported that a Guangxi Zhuang, "Falun Gong addict", was sentenced to death for murder by the Intermediate People's Court in the Guangxi Zhuang
- AUGUST 18, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six people who robbed a bank in central China's Henan...
Six people who robbed a bank in central China's Henan Province were sentenced to death and deprived of all property
- AUGUST 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Qi Huogui, described by Hong Kong-based news agency...
Qi Huogui, described by Hong Kong-based news agency Zhongguo Tongxun She as "the most serious corrupt official since the founding of Hainan Province," was executed by firing squad
- AUGUST 12, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in the southern city of Haikou sentenced to...
A court in the southern city of Haikou sentenced to death Wu Yadi, 37, a middle-ranking police officer, who was insulted by a prostitute during sex and was so enraged that he killed her
- AUGUST 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
TV reports stated that Zhuo Changren and Jiang Hongjun,...
TV reports stated that Zhuo Changren and Jiang Hongjun, who were among six Chinese given asylum after hijacking an airliner to South Korea in 1983, were each executed by a gunshot to the back of the head
- AUGUST 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhuo Changren and Jiang Honjun, two Chinese defectors,...
Zhuo Changren and Jiang Honjun, two Chinese defectors, were executed for kidnapping and murdering a Taiwanese man in 1991
- AUGUST 7, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Woolf,...
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Woolf, in an unprecedented visit by the most senior judge in Britain to the People's Republic, attended the Celebration of Sino-Legal Exchange, organised by the British Council and the Chinese Ministry of
- AUGUST 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Jealousy and a desire for revenge drove a man to set...
Jealousy and a desire for revenge drove a man to set off a blast which killed 47 people in a northwestern Chinese village of cave dwellings in July, police said
- AUGUST 4, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese journalist was sacked after investigating...
A Chinese journalist was sacked after investigating a scandal involving the unauthorised removal of organs from an executed prisoner
- AUGUST 2, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Fujian Province in eastern China sentenced...
A court in Fujian Province in eastern China sentenced a man to death on two counts of sabotaging a high-voltage power line, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported