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
DECEMBER 29, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 12 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN SINGLE DAY
China has executed 12 people in a single day, including a man who bombed a local tax office
- DECEMBER 27, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: TWO INVOLVED IN DRUG-RELATED CRIMES SENTENCED TO DEATH
Two local courts in China have sentenced to death two men on charges of trafficking and manufacturing
- DECEMBER 23, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
SW CHINA COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR CORRUPTION
in southwest China, the Higher People's Court of Chongqing upheld the death sentence of Wang Guanchao, former board chairman of Beijing Triple Nine Automobile Industrial Co, for graft and embezzlement totalling over 30 million yuan.
- DECEMBER 22, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
7 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN NORTH CHINA
the Taiyuan Intermediate People's Court in China's north Shanxi province sentenced five people to death and two others to death with a two-year reprieve for drug trafficking in October 2010.
- DECEMBER 16, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR PICKAXE MURDER
the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court in northeast China's Liaoning Province sentenced Xiao Guang, a 31-year-old resident of Liaozhong County, to death.
- DECEMBER 13, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA HALVES EXECUTIONS TO 4,000 PER YEAR, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
Executions in China have dropped 50 per cent since 2007 to around 4,000 per year,
- DECEMBER 13, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAFIA-STYLE GANG LEADER EXECUTED
The leader and two core members of a Mafia-style gang that terrorized local communities in southwest China's city of Kunming were executed, court officials said.
- DECEMBER 13, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: RUSSIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
Russian national Marina Lopatina said she will not appeal her death sentence with a two year reprieve.
- DECEMBER 12, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: SA WOMAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
A South African woman was executed in China for drug smuggling, eNews reported.
- DECEMBER 12, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: THREE GET DEATH SENTENCES
in China, three members of a gang who kidnapped, robbed and murdered Yu Jun in Pudong's Jinqiao area on September 15, 2010, received death sentences.
- DECEMBER 11, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE MADAM EXECUTED BY LETHAL INJECTION
Wang Ziqi was executed in China for luring young women to work in brothels which were disguised as tea houses, beauty salons or hotels.
- DECEMBER 10, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
DAIRY FARMER SENTENCED OVER MILK POISONING IN CHINA
a local court in Pingliang city in far western China's Gansu province found dairy farmer Ma Xiuling guilty of deliberately adding nitrite to the milk of a dairy farming couple in revenge for some business disputes, the official Xinhua News Agency reported