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
- JULY 21, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ou Jianneng, convicted of kidnapping a Hong Kong businessman's...
Ou Jianneng, convicted of kidnapping a Hong Kong businessman's family, extorting money and burning two police cars, was executed in the Guangdong province by a firing squad
- JULY 19, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Geng Yongxiang, 53, a former customs official in east...
Geng Yongxiang, 53, a former customs official in east China's Zhejiang Province was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes worth 1
- JULY 13, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
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- JULY 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Beijing Intermediate Court handed down a death sentence...
A Beijing Intermediate Court handed down a death sentence on Ju Jiantai, 56, former deputy director of the Contemporary World Publishing Company and a member of the Communist Party for 37 years, for accepting bribes amounting to US$400,000
- JULY 6, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three [unidentified] Chinese men, were sentenced to...
Three [unidentified] Chinese men, were sentenced to death for arson, murder and other crimes
- JULY 6, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three Muslim separatists (?Alimu Younusi), (?Duolikun...
Three Muslim separatists (?Alimu Younusi), (?Duolikun Ruozi), (?Tuerhong Awuti) were executed by firing squad for murder, bomb plots and setting up a `'Party of God" to create an independent Islamic government, immediately after a public sentencing rally
- JULY 4, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Liu Jinfeng a woman who used nitric acid to burn the...
Liu Jinfeng a woman who used nitric acid to burn the face of a 14-year-old girl was sentenced to death
- JULY 1, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A finance official in Zhejiang province was sentenced...
A finance official in Zhejiang province was sentenced to death for embezzling public funds and illegally granting loans to his own firms
- JULY 1, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A former agent of the National Security Bureau (NSB)...
A former agent of the National Security Bureau (NSB) Chang Chih-peng said that two People's Liberation Army officers - Liu Lienkun and Zhow Chengjung - were sentenced to death in China in August 2000 for spying on behalf of Taiwan
- JUNE 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangdong Higher People's Court pronounced death...
The Guangdong Higher People's Court pronounced death sentences on Zhuo Bing and Chen Pei for involvement in counterfeiting bills and coins cases
- JUNE 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A railway court in Shanghai sentenced Zhao Xianhui,...
A railway court in Shanghai sentenced Zhao Xianhui, a farmer from southwest China's Yunnan Province, to death with two years' probation
- JUNE 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chen Jiansheng, a drug trafficker, was sentenced to...
Chen Jiansheng, a drug trafficker, was sentenced to death by the Haikou Municipal People's Intermediate Court