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
- DECEMBER 12, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Yulin City Intermediate People's Court handed down...
The Yulin City Intermediate People's Court handed down a death sentence to Wu Gengyue, former deputy magistrate of Luchuan County for accepting 6
- DECEMBER 12, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Channel Four, a British television, reported that hundreds...
Channel Four, a British television, reported that hundreds of Malaysians on dialysis treatment have gone to China and paid the equivalent of 9C7,500 (S$18,900) to receive kidneys from executed criminals
- DECEMBER 7, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed Taiwan national Chen Kun-Zhang for producing...
China executed Taiwan national Chen Kun-Zhang for producing and selling 25kg of the drug "ice"
- NOVEMBER 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in China's Anhui Province sentenced Xiao Zuoxin,...
A court in China's Anhui Province sentenced Xiao Zuoxin, the former mayor of Fuyang to life imprisonment for corruption and his wife Zhou Jimei to two years of probation followed by death for accepting bribes totalling over 1
- NOVEMBER 24, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Sichuan court carried out the execution order on...
A Sichuan court carried out the execution order on Lan Yike, a cadre of the Sichuan Province Foreign Exchange Administration Bureau, for embezzling public funds
- NOVEMBER 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Nanjing Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Nanjing Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Sui Zhennan, director of the Gaoxin Development Zone, Nanjing Sub-Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes and corruption
- NOVEMBER 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Changchun Municipal Intermediate People's Court...
The Changchun Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Lu Mang and Meng Wie to death for financial fraud
- NOVEMBER 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Lai Changxing, 46, said to be the mastermind of a multi-billion-dollar...
Lai Changxing, 46, said to be the mastermind of a multi-billion-dollar smuggling ring in Hong Kong and the Fujian province in China, was arrested at a casino at Niagara Falls, and taken to Vancouver
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Peng Farong, the chairman of China Tianping Enterprises,...
Peng Farong, the chairman of China Tianping Enterprises, was executed with the approval of the Supreme Court, for colluding with Xuan Ying, the section chief of a savings unit of the Communications Bank Kunming Branch to use high interests to lure the Yu
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven Chinese citizens were executed by a bullet after...
Seven Chinese citizens were executed by a bullet after the Intermediate People's Court in the western city of Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Autonomous Region sentenced them publicly for crimes including robbery, arson, murder and rape
- NOVEMBER 20, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hao Ruiduan, ex-director of Huaiyang County Grain Bureau...
Hao Ruiduan, ex-director of Huaiyang County Grain Bureau in central China's Henan Province, was executed for the killing of a deputy curator of Huaiyang County Museum, Li Genghai
- NOVEMBER 20, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
At least four criminals were executed in Beijing for...
At least four criminals were executed in Beijing for murder, rape and robbery