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 31, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR TAKING BRIBES
Wang Zheng, the former deputy head of Yuzhong District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality...
- DECEMBER 30, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR 8 MURDERS
a villager from northwest China's Gansu Province was sentenced to death for a series of murders that included six people in his village and a taxi driver and a prostitute elsewhere in the province.
- DECEMBER 28, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
FORMER EAST CHINA PROVINCE VICE-GOVERNOR SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE
a local court of east China's Shandong Province handed down a death penalty with a two-year reprieve to He Minxu...
- DECEMBER 27, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MULTIPLE MURDER IN GUIZHOU
a man was sentenced to death for murdering a county head, four of his relatives and a nursemaid in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
- DECEMBER 20, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CORRUPT CHINA PROSECUTOR GETS SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY
a Chinese court handed down a suspended death sentence to a former top prosecutor...
- DECEMBER 20, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCE GETS SUSPENDED IN SHANGHAI CASE
in China, the former chairman of one of Shanghai's biggest industrial companies...
- DECEMBER 20, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Zhou Liji, who had served time for fraud and larceny, was executed in China for drug trafficking, the Shanghai Daily said.
- DECEMBER 19, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA FOR MURDER
a government official and his two accomplices were sentenced to death in China for murder...
- DECEMBER 18, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FORCING PUPILS INTO PROSTITUTION
China's most wanted couple were sentenced to death in southwest China's Guizhou Province for forcing 23 girls...
- DECEMBER 18, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: SHANGHAI'S TOP CRIME BOSS EXECUTED
Li Bin, 41, the self-proclaimed "King of Shanghai's underworld" was executed after the Supreme Court...
- DECEMBER 18, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium...
China voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium...
- DECEMBER 17, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA SENTENCES ONE TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
a gang of six people were given sentences ranging from death to 15 years in jail