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 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Railway Communications Intermediate People's...
The Guangzhou Railway Communications Intermediate People's Court carried out the instructions of the Guangdong Higher People's Court to execute drug criminals Li Qing, Zhang Kaida, and Huang Hongying
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for...
Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for being involved in five drug trafficking cases between 1997 and 1999
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The southwest Chinese province of Sichuan destroyed...
The southwest Chinese province of Sichuan destroyed 20 kilograms of "drugs" in the provincial capital Chengdu as part of a local narcotics crackdown
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hu Zhongwang, 23, and Hu Luobing, of Hubei province,...
Hu Zhongwang, 23, and Hu Luobing, of Hubei province, were executed in Dongguan City in south China's Guangdong province
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
An [unidentified] 36-year-old hacker was sentenced...
An [unidentified] 36-year-old hacker was sentenced to death in Hangzhou for embezzling over 1m yuan of public money from a bank account
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate Court sentenced...
The Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate Court sentenced to death seven people with a period of reprieve or life imprisonment
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Yibin Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Yibin Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Ma Haijian, Zhu Qinglin, Zhu Qingmin, Qu Zhi'an and Tang Yongcai to death while Wang Shiyun and Xu Yanpu were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Regional Higher People's Court announced that eight...
The Regional Higher People's Court announced that eight of the 13 defendants involved in a drug case were executed
- JUNE 21, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Hubei Province Higher People's Court sentenced...
The Hubei Province Higher People's Court sentenced Zhou Mingrong to death with a two year reprieve
- JUNE 20, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zulikar Memet, a man accused of helping separatist...
Zulikar Memet, a man accused of helping separatist ethnic Turkic Uighurs, was secretly executed after being held in isolation since his arrest in mid-1998
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court...
The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zhu Zexin, alias Zhang Xiong, to death with a two-year reprieve
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jinzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court announced...
The Jinzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court announced its judgment on the extraordinary case of mass murder in the coal pits in Yi County, Liaoning