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 28, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On June 28, China executed the "ringleader" of a Pakistani...
On June 28, China executed the "ringleader" of a Pakistani fundamentalist group in the north-west Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
- JUNE 25, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On June 25, authorities in Changsha and other areas...
On June 25, authorities in Changsha and other areas executed 8 drug traffickers
- JUNE 24, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On June 24, Urumqi City Intermediate People's Court...
On June 24, Urumqi City Intermediate People's Court sentenced 6 drug traffickers to death for selling heroin ranging from 190 to 717g
- JUNE 24, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On June 24, 3 drug traffickers were executed in Mianyang...
On June 24, 3 drug traffickers were executed in Mianyang City in Sichuan Province
- JUNE 21, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On June 21, a Chinese court sentenced Liu Jia-guo,...
On June 21, a Chinese court sentenced Liu Jia-guo, 34,the leader of Christian sect to death for swindling fellow sect members
- JUNE 17, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On June 17, Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate...
On June 17, Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate Court sentenced 4 drug traffickers to death, life imprisonment, and fixed-term imprisonment
- JUNE 7, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On June 7, 6 people, including 2 former Customs chiefs,...
On June 7, 6 people, including 2 former Customs chiefs, were executed in Guangdong after losing their appeals in the mainland's biggest smuggling case
- JUNE 4, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On June 4, Huzhou City Intermediate People's Court,...
On June 4, Huzhou City Intermediate People's Court, Zhejiang, meted out a death sentence with a 2-year reprieve to Xie Jianbang, former vice-mayor of Ningbo City, on charges of corruption
- JUNE 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In June, Lan Yike, a cadre of the Sichuan Provincial...
In June, Lan Yike, a cadre of the Sichuan Provincial Foreign Exchange Administrative Bureau, embezzled, or obtained by swindling, more than 10m yuan ($1
- JUNE 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In June, a number of drug traffickers were punished...
In June, a number of drug traffickers were punished or executed in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shantou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, and Wenzhou on the eve of International Anti-drug Day
- MAY 18, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On May 18, Jiangxi Ye Xiaojun, who killed a policeman...
On May 18, Jiangxi Ye Xiaojun, who killed a policeman during a robbery on March 31, was executed in Jingdezhen City
- MAY 14, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, the Higher People's Court of northeast China's...
On May 14, the Higher People's Court of northeast China's Liaoning Province sentenced 4 persons to death for murdering Li Xianying, the secretary of the Party Committee of Liaoning's Fushun County