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 30, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On June 30, Zhou Xia, 36, a female drug dealer was...
On June 30, Zhou Xia, 36, a female drug dealer was executed in the city of Anshan, one of China's steel production bases in the northeastern province of Liaoning
- JUNE 28, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On June 28, Jiang Zhongsheng, the former chairman and...
On June 28, Jiang Zhongsheng, the former chairman and party secretary of the Dongfang Boiler (Group) Company Ltd
- 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