Criminal Code of China (to the 20^th Anniversary of its Adoption)

The article is devoted to the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Criminal Code of the People's Republic of China. It outlines the history of the development of the Chinese criminal legislation, with particular attention given to the so-called dynastic codes, gives an overview of General and Special Parts of the Criminal Code, and shows the trends in the development of criminal legislation, its changes, which are due primarily to social needs of China. For the past relatively short period the country has become the leader in the global, European and regional production market, trade, agriculture, investment attractiveness. In this regard, in the annex to the article the authors provide an extract from the Criminal Code of China from which it is possible to see the nature and characteristics of criminal law ensuring the normal functioning of the Chinese socialist market, penalization of respective acts.

China, Criminal Code, background to the adoption of the Code, dynastic codes, 1928 Criminal Code, codification of the criminal law in 1957, 1979 Criminal Code, 1997 Criminal Code, General and Special Parts, criminalization and penalization of acts, peculiarities of criminal legislation, changes and additions to the Criminal Code

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