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 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Intermediate Court of the Ziyang Prefecture, Sichuan,...
The Intermediate Court of the Ziyang Prefecture, Sichuan, sentenced six backbone members of a criminal gang, including Zhang Yi, to death
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hong Kong officials were seeking a guarantee from Beijing...
Hong Kong officials were seeking a guarantee from Beijing that mainlanders sent back to face trial under a rendition agreement would not be executed
- JUNE 15, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Five men, Xiaokelaiti Makmuti, Maimaiti Turxun, Kader...
Five men, Xiaokelaiti Makmuti, Maimaiti Turxun, Kader Asker Zunong, Abduriyimu Maimaitiyimin, Adbunur Abulimuti, all ethnic Turkic Uighurs native to the region, accused of terrorist activities in the far northern Chinese region of Xinjiang were executed i
- JUNE 14, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Zhanjiang court sentenced to death Zhang Zhenlian,...
A Zhanjiang court sentenced to death Zhang Zhenlian, 40, for issuing 72 copies of false value added specialized tax invoices with a total value of 175m yuan involving taxes of 29
- JUNE 14, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Vice-Minister of Justice Duan Zhengkun said that since...
Vice-Minister of Justice Duan Zhengkun said that since China introduced its legal aid system in late 1996, 400,000 disadvantaged people, have benefited from the government-funded programmes
- JUNE 13, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Fang Yong, 35, who hid in Canada for nine years, was...
Fang Yong, 35, who hid in Canada for nine years, was given the death penalty by the Ningbo People's Intermediate Court for embezzling about 1
- JUNE 12, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liao Zhi, 38, to death for manufacturing 730 kg of the narcotic "ice"
- JUNE 9, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Beijing City No 2 Intermediate Court sentenced...
The Beijing City No 2 Intermediate Court sentenced Liu Chunyang, 29, a university graduate and model, to death, suspended for two years, and confiscated all her property, for running a brothel that earned tens of thousands of yuan a day
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jinhua Municipal Intermediate People's Court implemented...
The Jinhua Municipal Intermediate People's Court implemented the death sentence on He Shi and Qiu Xuanming for evading huge amounts of taxes using false value-added tax invoices
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Huang Faxiang, former director of the State Land Resources...
Huang Faxiang, former director of the State Land Resources of Fengdu County, Chongqing Municipality, was executed for grafting more than 15 million yuan (1
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Dandong Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
The Dandong Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Liaoning sentenced Song Jie and Huang He to death for armed murder in Dandong on December12, 1999
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Expanding the experimental use of lethal injections,...
Expanding the experimental use of lethal injections, authorities in Sichuan province used the method to execute eight people following an order by the Supreme People's Court