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
- MAY 21, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE COURT BACKS SENTENCE FOR POLICE CHIEF
Chongqing Municipal Higher People's Court in southern China upheld the death penalty of former police chief Wen Qiang...
- MAY 20, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA OFFICIAL GETS SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR GRAFT
a former top official at China's commerce ministry was given a suspended death sentence for graft including taking bribes from electronics giant GOME, state media said.
- MAY 18, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: PLUMBER EXECUTED FOR KILLING EX-WIFE OVER ASSETS
plumber Ren Wenli, 41, from Shijingshan district in China, was executed for the murder and dismemberment of his ex-wife surnamed Liu.
- MAY 17, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: LEADERS OF CHONGQING CRIME-RING HAVE APPEALS HEARD
China's Chongqing Municipal Higher People's Court heard appeals against the death sentences of alleged crime boss Fan Qihang and his associate Wu Chuanjiang.
- MAY 15, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA FOR SCHOOL ATTACK
a court in eastern China sentenced unemployed man Xu Yuyuan to death for knifing 29 children and three adults with a meat cleaver at a kindergarten at Zhongxin nursery school in Taixing city on April 29, 2010.
MAY 14, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TOMB ROBBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Four tomb robbers were sentenced to death for stealing more than 200 relics, including 11 items listed for the state's top level of protection, from ancient tombs in central China's Hunan Province.
- MAY 13, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: CONVICTED EX-TOP COP ASKS FOR LENIENCY
Wen Qiang, 54, former deputy police chief in Chongqing, China, appealed against his death sentence for protecting gangs, bribery, rape and property scamming during his second trial and asked for a lenient sentence.
- MAY 13, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FORMER JUDICIAL OFFICIAL APPEALS DEATH SENTENCE
former high-ranking judicial official Wen Qiang, 54, appealed his death sentence in southwest China's Chongqing Higher People's Court.
MAY 12, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TWO DRUG DEALERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Two drug traffickers have been sentenced to death for dealing large amounts of crystal methamphetamine, or "ice", in east China's Zhejiang Province, sources with the local court said.
- MAY 9, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA 'MURDER VICTIM' FOUND ALIVE
a Chinese man who spent almost 10 years in jail for murder was freed after his supposed victim was found alive. Zhao Zuohai's neighbour Zhao Zhenshang disappeared after they had fought and Zuohai was charged when a headless, decomposed body was found 18 m
- MAY 5, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE OVER MURDER, HOSPITAL HOSTAGE TAKING
a man who took eight people hostage in a hospital after killing the brother of his ex-wife was sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Fuzhou City in east China's Fujian Province.
- APRIL 28, 2010ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA EXECUTES MAN FOR MURDERING EIGHT CHILDREN
former community doctor Zheng Minsheng, 42, was executed by shooting in Nanping, China, for stabbing eight young children to death at a primary school in the same city.