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
JULY 4, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TELECOM EXECUTIVE SENTENCED FOR TAKING BRIBES FROM SIEMENS
a court in Hebi city, China, handed a suspended death sentence to telecom executive Shi Wanzhong
- JULY 1, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: CHINA SENTENCES FILIPINA TO DEATH FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
an unidentified Filipina teacher was sentenced to death
- JUNE 24, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
the Intermediate People's Court in Changzhou in east China's Jiangsu Province
- JUNE 24, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FORMER VICE MAYOR'S DEATH PENALTY APPEAL DENIED
former vice mayor of China's eastern resort city of Hangzhou
- JUNE 21, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA MOBILE EXECUTIVE GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR TAKING BRIBES FROM SIEMENS
Shi Wanzhong, the Human Resources Director of state-run telecom company China Mobile...
- JUNE 21, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: COUNTERFEITER SENTENCED TO DEATH
the Intermediate People's Court of the city of Hengyang in China's Hunan Province sentenced
JUNE 21, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINESE COALMINER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING MAN IN POLLUTION ROW
A court in China's northern region of Inner Mongolia sentenced to death a coal mine worker for killing
- JUNE 16, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: CITY PLANS DEATH PENALTY TO ENSURE FOOD SAFETY
a new trial provision issued by the Higher People's Court of Southwest China's Chongqing municipality requires more severe punishment, including the death penalty, for food and drug safety scandals.
- JUNE 15, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Weng Tanggen was sentenced to death and Wang Jianping was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for drug trafficking by a court in Northeast China's Jilin province.
- JUNE 9, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR GOLD RAIDER
Zhang Degang, 33, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for the September 8, 2010, robbery of a hypermarket in Minhang District, worth 1.01 million yuan, the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court was told.
JUNE 8, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINESE SENTENCED TO DIE FOR MONGOL HERDER'S DEATH
A Chinese truck driver was sentenced to death for killing an ethnic Mongol herder by
JUNE 7, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: STUDENT EXECUTED OVER HIT-AND-RUN MURDER
China executed music student Yao Jiaxin, 21, for stabbing 26-year-old mother Zhang Miao to death after hurting her in a car crash on October 20, 2010.