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 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The regional Higher People 's Court confirmed the death...
The regional Higher People 's Court confirmed the death sentence handed down to the former police chief of Liuzhou city in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
- MAY 31, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shaoyang (Hunan Province) Municipal Intermediate People's...
Shaoyang (Hunan Province) Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced six triad gangsters including Deng Fei to death
- MAY 31, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six people convicted of abducting and selling four...
Six people convicted of abducting and selling four women and 99 children were executed in China's southwestern province of Yunnan
- MAY 30, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Urumqi Intermediate People's Court held a public...
The Urumqi Intermediate People's Court held a public rally to sentence to death or life imprisonment 24 criminals convicted either of splitting the country, murder, or robbery at trial of first instance
- MAY 29, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shijiazhuang Municipal Court carried out the execution...
Shijiazhuang Municipal Court carried out the execution order on Xu Ailing, a female, for swindling money
- MAY 29, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Courts in Beijing, Zhuzhou, Qingdao and Shijiazhuang...
Courts in Beijing, Zhuzhou, Qingdao and Shijiazhuang executed Cao Yufei, Tang Tianhe, Li Tianping and Xu Ailing for financial fraud, with the approval of China People's Supreme Court,From June 1997 to July 1998, Cao Yufei, chairman of Beijing Xindongya In
- MAY 28, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
With the approval of the People's Supreme Court, Hubei...
With the approval of the People's Supreme Court, Hubei Provincial Higher People's Court carried out the execution order on Jin Jianpei, director of the Hubei Provincial Hong Kong and Macao Office, also president of the Hubei Yifeng Trading Company and cha
- MAY 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Jinan Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Shandong...
Jinan Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Shandong Province, sentenced Xue Yuquan, director of the Gold Industry Bureau, to death with two years reprieve for accepting bribes and falsely reporting registered capital
- MAY 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Beijing Municipality's Intermediate People's Court...
Beijing Municipality's Intermediate People's Court No 2 held a public meeting to announce punishments for 21 robbery criminals: Zhao Gang and four others were sentenced to death, and another 16 criminals were separately sentenced to death with a two-year
- MAY 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty-six-year-old Duan Xiaoping, a peasant from Chongqing,...
Twenty-six-year-old Duan Xiaoping, a peasant from Chongqing, was sentenced to death for splashing sulphuric acid on her lover's ex-wife, Xu, on 1 June 2000
- MAY 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Nanning Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
The Nanning Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Guangxi Province sentenced 10 alleged drug traffickers to death, including Zhong Qiuqi, a peasant from Jinshan
- MAY 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji promised that China's most-wanted...
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji promised that China's most-wanted fugitive Lai Changxing will not be executed if Canada returns him to face trial