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China is an amazing and vibrant country with a distinctive and centuries-old culture, which in a short period of time has stepped far forward in the era of advanced technologies. However, with all this, they have not forgotten their roots and cultural characteristics some of which are downright shocking.

WuzzUp Here are 15 shocking facts about China that the Chinese would rather hide.

1. Park of the Lilliputians

Of course it is not state secret but the Kingdom of Little People in China is a place that only a few people still know about. The unusual park is home to over a hundred dwarfs that should entertain visitors. Here they show humorous shows of all stripes, and with the development of tourism, the park of Lilliputians makes good money.

2. Christianity in China

Perhaps, hardly anyone expects to meet Christianity in the Middle Kingdom, but now it is on the rise here, and China may soon become the country with the largest Christian community in the world. It is believed that there are already more Christians in China than in Italy. However, few people know about this, because in China they are strict about religions.

3. Congenital deformities

There is nothing worse than watching a child grow up with some kind of birth defect, but this truth of life cannot be avoided. In China, this happens more often than you might imagine. Every year 1.2 million children are born with developmental disabilities in China, and this number is growing. It turns out that a child with a congenital deformity is born in China every 30 seconds. Since 2001, the number of such cases has increased by 40%. Many blame the poor environmental situation for this.

4. Air pollution

Many have probably heard of China's horrific air pollution. The country's authorities usually keep silent about how bad everything is in this regard. On some days when the air is very dense and full of chemicals, people have to wear oxygen masks outside. The reason for this environmental situation is the rapid growth of China's industry. Some people think that dirty air is only the province of China, but due to air currents, pollution reaches San Francisco. It is believed that a third of San Francisco's air pollution cases are related to China.

5. Empty buildings

There are millions of empty houses in China. In particular, there are now 65 million completely vacant dwellings. This property is scattered throughout China. These are not just houses or buildings that have been abandoned for years: they are cities and neighborhoods built in anticipation of a large influx of population. Since no one came to live there, they still stand empty and lifeless. It turns out that there are quite a few ghost towns in China.

6. Poverty

Poverty is terrible, and at some point, many people have gone through it. According to various estimates, more than 100 million people suffer from extreme poverty in China due to low wages. Some receive only two dollars a day, while others only one dollar. China's population is so large that it is difficult to save such a huge number of people from the financial abyss.

7. Ban on reincarnation

One of the basic principles of Buddhism is the belief in reincarnation. The Chinese authorities vetoed this integral part of Buddhism, forbidding some monks from reincarnating. The communist government stated that in this way they are trying to manage the processes of reincarnation. However, many believe that this is simply a way to shield people from the influence of the Dalai Lama, who is in exile.

8. Huge empty shopping mall

If you've ever wondered where the largest shopping mall in the world is located, it's certainly in China. But this shopping center is not like the others, and all because there are almost no shops and customers in it. 99% of the area at New South China Mall has never been used, although the mall opened seven years ago. The area of ​​the megamall is 650.3 thousand square meters. It is divided into 2,350 rooms that could house stores of all sizes. The only places in mall that work are a couple of fast foods around the entrance.

9. Blocked Sites

China is obsessed with controlling everything and everyone, and this is especially reflected in measures to restrict access to the Internet. In the US, you can get to almost any site, but in China there is no such freedom. Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and many other resources are blocked here. Even the New York Times was blocked after it published material that the communist government did not agree with.

10. Cavemen

In history lessons, everyone was probably told that once primitive people hid in caves to protect themselves from the dangers of the outside world, but those times are long gone ... but not in China. The cave is home to over 35 million people. In Shaanxi Province, one of the most famous cave dwelling places, people lead their normal daily lives.

11. Contaminated water

Many countries suffer from water pollution, but the horror is that more than 700 million people in China consume polluted water every day. V large cities only about 10% of raw materials are cleaned Wastewater... Waste is thrown into lakes, rivers and other places where it seeps into the ground and pollutes groundwater.

12. Time zone problem

Few can boast of their own time zone, but the Chinese are one of them. After the establishment of the communist regime in 1949, it was decided that China should have its own time zone for Beijing. Of course, this was another measure to tighten control in the country. The huge time zone has caused problems such as late sunrise in some parts of the country, which falls at 10 a.m.

13. Piracy

Once upon a time, the term "piracy" meant an attack on another ship and its robbery, but over time this word began to embody the illegal use or reproduction of the products of someone else's intellectual work. In 2010, China took the lead in piracy. 78% software installed on computers was pirated. No matter how you look, these are very large volumes, and although stolen content exists everywhere in one way or another, China in this sense is ahead of the planet.

14. Death penalty

In many countries the death penalty canceled or used more humane means such as lethal injection. But in China, for example, people are still executed by firing squad.

15. Gobi Desert

It is known that the Gobi Desert is one of the largest in the world, but few people realize that this desert is expanding at an alarming rate. The Gobi Desert is 1.3 million square kilometers, almost like Peru. Every year it increases by 3.6 thousand square kilometers. This is due to the huge volumes of deforestation, soil depletion due to its use for pastures, as well as the consumption of water sources.

Today, no country in the world imposes more death sentences than China. The exact number of executions is a state secret, but according to human rights organizations, up to 5,000 sentences are carried out there every year - more than in all other states combined.

China is also distinguished by the very approach to the death penalty: the country's authorities sentence not only murderers to capital punishment, but also corrupt officials, repeat offenders, child rapists, drug dealers, traitors to the homeland and terrorists. Let me recall the loudest executions in China.

Jia Jinglong, 2016

For the time being, Jia Jinglong led an unremarkable life as a farmer in a small village in northern China. In 2013, his house was demolished, and the local authorities offered the Jinglun family an apartment in one of the new buildings and monetary compensation... The amount seemed insufficient to the farmer, and he refused to leave his home. At the appointed time, the local police forcibly evicted Jinglun, beating him in front of the neighbors. As compensation, he got only an apartment, which the offended farmer refused to enter. In addition to all the misfortunes, Jinglun's wedding was disrupted due to the fact that the bride's family refused to pass her off as the homeless groom.

The man had been hatching a plan of revenge for two years, and in 2015, with a converted nail gun, he shot and killed an official whom he considered the main culprit in the illegal eviction. After the trial, an active campaign was launched in China in support of 30-year-old Jia Jinglun. The story of a man who rebelled against the injustices perpetrated by omnipotent officials resonated in the hearts of millions of Chinese, appeals for his pardon were published even in two state newspapers. Despite this, the Chinese authorities did not mitigate the punishment for the crime of assaulting an official, and at the end of 2016 the sentence was carried out.

Liu Han, 2015

The 49-year-old billionaire (net worth $ 6.4 billion), who amassed wealth in the extractive industries and energy, has become the most prominent victim of Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign. A Sichuan businessman known for his love of expensive cars, diamond watches and extravagant statements, he led the parallel life of the leader of an organized crime group that terrorized local population... Liu Han, his younger brother and three close associates were found guilty of murder, blackmail, running an illegal casino, arms dealing and sentenced to death. All the property of the criminals was confiscated in favor of the state.

After the verdict was passed, Liu Han burst into tears right in the courtroom. He stated that he was framed. The case against the billionaire prompted an investigation into the activities of his patron, a member of the CPC Politburo and the most influential party functionary Zhou Yongkang, who was considered the main opponent of Xi Jinping's nomination for General Secretaries. Subsequently, Yongkan lost all his posts and received a life sentence.

Li Jinshun, 2015

While Russia is arguing about the permissibility of chemical castration of pedophiles, China is sentencing them to death. Teacher was executed in 2015 primary school in Gansu province, who raped and molested 26 female students between the ages of 4 and 11 in one year. Elderly Li Jinshun specifically targeted shy girls from poor families, whose parents had left to work in large cities.

Unlike other cases of the death penalty, the Chinese society this time unanimously supported the verdict, some netizens even expressed regret that the usual execution is too humane a punishment for such criminals. Nevertheless, Jinshun's death was rather an exception, since most pedophiles in China get off with only long prison terms.

Akmal Shaikh, 2009

Akmal Shaikh became the second executed European in the entire history of modern China. Like most of the foreigners sentenced to death there, Shaikh was charged with drug trafficking. He was born in Pakistan and emigrated to the UK with his parents as a child. Having matured, Shaikh, with varying success, was engaged in business in his new homeland and in the United States, eventually settling in Poland. Even then, he began to show signs of a mental disorder, his marriage broke up, and he himself was left without a roof over his head. Soon Shaikh met a certain native of Central Asia, who promised to fulfill his old dream of becoming a pop singer.

Together they went to Kyrgyzstan, then to Tajikistan, from where Shaikh, who was promised a career as a singer in China, flew to Urumqi alone. There he was detained by the police with a full suitcase of pure heroin, which a new acquaintance asked him to bring. Shaikh's defense appealed to the fact that he did not know about the drugs in the case, and also insisted that the criminals used his mental disorder for their own ends.

British authorities have asked the Chinese authorities for clemency 27 times. Prime Minister Gordon Brown personally raised this issue with his Chinese counterpart. However, the PRC Supreme People's Court refused to conduct a psychiatric examination and upheld the death sentence. In December 2009, Akmal Shaikh was executed. He was injected with a lethal injection.

Wang Zhendong, 2008

China's rapid enrichment in recent years has not only improved the lives of millions of people, but also created new problems. The Chinese did not know where to invest their savings. Ordinary citizens prefer to invest in real estate or in business ventures of their friends and relatives. Because of this, prices for apartments in large cities began to skyrocket, and fraudulent schemes appeared when unlucky investors were left completely without funds. The case of Yingkou Donghua Trading and its head Wang Zhendong stands out here.

An entrepreneurial businessman organized a pyramid scheme selling ant breeding kits to his investors. As you know, they are widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. In China, the scheme worked just as well as in the rest of the world: the first "investors" multiplied their money at the expense of subsequent investors, and the fame of Wang Zhendong's company grew by leaps and bounds. In just three years, he managed to raise more than $ 400 million. When the police intervened, it was already too late: just over a million remained of this amount. More than 10,000 depositors lost their savings, one even committed suicide. Considering public danger Wang Zhendong's crimes, the Chinese authorities sentenced him to death.

Zheng Xiaoyu, 2007

Even 10 years ago, the problem of the quality of food and medicine in China was especially acute. V different parts of the country, mass poisonings regularly occurred, when dozens of people were hospitalized due to poor-quality drugs. Zheng Xiaoyu was the head of the oversight department at that time, and he did not give up his post to anyone for many years. Under his leadership, the State Administration for Supervision of the Quality of Food and Drugs approved more than 150 thousand new drugs. By comparison, that's a hundred times the FDA's figure for the same period.

The reason turned out to be quite commonplace: most of these drugs were produced by eight corporations that paid bribes to the official. The case of Anhui companies filled the patience of the Chinese authorities: 17 people died because of its drug, and hundreds more were left disabled. After a quick investigation, members of the leadership of pharmaceutical corporations and officials responsible for the quality of the drugs produced were put on trial. Despite the fact that Zheng Xiaoyu actively cooperated with the investigation, he was the only one of the group to receive a death sentence and was executed in 2007.

Song Dan, 2005

With all the severity of the Chinese judicial system, no one can accuse her of sexism - she delivers death sentences to women with the same ease as to men. Chinese woman Song Dan from Jiangxi Province had a terrible childhood. When she was 13, she was raped by a school teacher, shortly after that one of the girl's distant relatives did the same. Both men were sentenced to long terms, but the events caused deep psychological trauma to Song Dan. The girl's life was also complicated by bad relations with her parents. They often beat her.

Growing up, she began to drink and run away from home. One day, the police detained Song Dan. She was accused of planning the kidnapping and murder of her boyfriend. The girl confessed everything, said that she needed money to see her idol - the Chinese runner Liu Xiang. She was shot in 2005 shortly after Song Dan turned 18. Such tragic stories women generate deep sympathy among Chinese Internet users. They believe that criminals are often victims of circumstances and should not be subject to the death penalty.

Today we will talk about one of the most cruel in modern world punishments and about the country that most often applies these types of punishments.

I must say that China in general is a bloodthirsty country, it has always been distinguished, if not by the creepiness of the execution of the punishment, then by the number of those executed for sure. To date, more than 5 thousand people are executed annually in China, more than 46 crimes at the beginning of 2016 provided for capital punishment.

According to Wikipedia, in China today, while carrying out the death penalty, they do not shoot, but use a lethal injection. In 2006, according to the same Wikipedia, lethal injection was used just as often as shooting: 50 to 50.

However, despite the media reports, witnesses say that mass executions are still being practiced.

Organs on death row are often used for transplantation. China is one of the most advanced countries in terms of transplantation and the number of organ transplants. As of 2009, 65% of organ transplants were from murdered prisoners.

According to information from official sources, since mid-2014, the procedure for the removal of organs from a prisoner after his execution should have required the consent of the sentenced person (it is not known how far this is actually done):

“It is known that many more transplants are performed in China, about 10-20 thousand per year, than, according to official figures, organs from voluntary donors are available. For example, in 8-10 thousand kidney transplants, only about 3-4% of organs were obtained from volunteers. Starting from mid-2014, according to the PRC authorities, such removal of organs during the death penalty will be carried out only with the consent of the sentenced person. "

I think that even now no permission is asked from the prisoner, because the death penalty in China and organ transplantation in this country are closely interconnected. It is mass shootings and lethal injections that provide a lot of "material" for organ transplantation, the development of science and medicine. We will return to this issue a little later.

First, about the execution procedure. China is one of the few countries where the death penalty is officially applied today, and on such a global scale.

"The death penalty does not apply in Hong Kong or Macau, which are subject to separate jurisdictions in accordance with the 'one country, two systems' principle."

In Iran and Singapore, for example, the execution rates are higher per capita, but in China the total number of those executed is much higher. In China, only persons under the age of 18 (those who were under 18 years old at the time of the crime) are not executed, previously it was forbidden to execute pregnant women, execution was carried out after childbirth, now they can have an abortion and be executed.

Currently, the death penalty in China is provided for 49 crimes (most of those executed were convicted of drug-related crimes). A complete list is provided below.

There are many versions on the Internet of which articles now provide for the death penalty in China (after all, there were 59 of them before, then 55, now 49). I will give this list from reliable sources:

“Currently (January 2016) the death penalty in China is provided for the following types of crimes:

high treason (article 102 of the Criminal Code of the PRC);

separatism (part 1 of article 103);

armed riots and riots (Article 104);

going over to the side of the enemy (Article 108);

espionage (Article 110);

intelligence activities in foreign interests (Art. 111);

rendering assistance to the enemy in time of war (Article 112);

arson, flooding, explosion, blowout hazardous substances, causing harm to public safety in a generally dangerous way (actions that entailed a fire, flood, explosion, release of toxic or radioactive substances, pathogens infectious diseases, as well as other acts that harm public safety in a dangerous way, in the presence of especially grave consequences) (Article 115);

harm vehicles, objects of transport (transport communications), electrical equipment, flammable or explosive equipment (Art. 119);

hijacking of an aircraft (Article 121);

illegal manufacture, sale and purchase, transportation, mailing, storage of weapons, ammunition, explosives (part 1 of article 125); illegal purchase and sale, transportation, storage of hazardous substances (toxic substances, radioactive substances, pathogens of infectious diseases) (part 2 of article 125);

theft of weapons, ammunition, explosives, hazardous substances (toxic substances, radioactive substances, pathogens of infectious diseases) (Article 127);

production, sale of counterfeit medicines (Art. 141);

premeditated murder (Article 232);

deliberate infliction of bodily harm (Article 234);

trade in human organs (Art. 2341);

rape (Article 236);

the seizure of hostages, associated with their death (part 2 of article 239);

abduction and sale of women and children (Article 240);

robbery (Article 263);

escape from prison with the use of violence (Article 317);

smuggling, sale, transportation, manufacture of drugs (Art. 347);

damage to military equipment, military installations or military communications (Art. 369);

supply of unusable military equipment, creation of unusable military installations (Art. 370);

plundering state property(Art. 384);

bribery (Articles 385, 388);

disobeying an order in wartime (Article 421);

concealment or knowingly false transmission of military information, refusal to transfer or falsification of military information (Art. 422); surrender (Article 423);

desertion in wartime (Article 424);

desertion of a serviceman (Article 430);

military espionage for the benefit foreign countries(part 2 of article 431);

theft of military equipment, army supplies, weapons, ammunition, explosives (Art. 438);

illegal purchase and sale or transfer of military equipment (Art. 439);

looting in wartime (Article 446) ”.

Passing a death sentence is a banal and hasty procedure. The verdict is often made after the first judicial trial(carried out by the interim people's court), then a double appeal can follow, almost always useless. A person can be executed 7 days after the sentencing. Since 2007, every death sentence has been sent to the Supreme Court for review.

In exceptional cases, the sentence can be commuted to life imprisonment, or to postpone the sentence (and if the person does not commit any willful crime- the death sentence can be replaced with another punishment, but leave the criminal life), but such "lucky ones" are actually a very small percentage of the number of convicts: for example - 100 thousand people in several years (for comparison - 5 thousand people are executed annually) ...

Then the prosecutors are notified and they dispatch special personnel to supervise the execution. The execution of the sentence (a shot or lethal injection) is carried out by the employees of the legal police. According to information from Internet sources - death sentences are not carried out in in public places... However, according to numerous testimonies, as well as videos that can be easily found on YouTube, executions were often and are being carried out in public.

For example, on the outskirts of a village, but with a crowd of spectators. There are widely known cases of demonstrative executions, when criminals (corrupt officials, drug dealers, rapists, murderers) were executed in crowded places - in stadiums, before the start of a football match. So, in 2001, dozens, hundreds of criminals were publicly executed, mostly convicted of economic crimes.

In general, in the 1980s, demonstrative executions were a normal phenomenon in China, starting in 1929, when for speeding with aggravating consequences, the heads of the executed were simply hung on the roads, so that potential violators speed mode it was discouraging. Since 1986, such executions and the public deprivation of people's lives have been banned in the country, but in 2001 there were several high-profile mass executions in stadiums, according to testimonies, there is something like that, it is simply not advertised.

Before the execution of the sentence, the prisoner is hung around the neck of a plate with his name and the articles of the law by which he was convicted. The prisoner is given the last word, then taken directly to the executor of the sentence. if it is a shooting, then in specially designated places, if the injection is in a van, or a prepared medical office.

“The execution of the death sentence should be announced publicly, but it is not carried out in public places.

After the execution, the judge's secretary must make a written note on this matter. The people's court summoned to carry out the death penalty must submit a report on the execution of the sentence to the Supreme People's Court.

The People's Court, summoned to carry out the death penalty, notifies the family of the perpetrator after execution.

In some parts of China, there are no specific rules and regulations for the execution of the death penalty. The scout team pre-selects the location that will become the place of execution. In this case, usually, the execution area has three perimeters: inner - 50 meters - for execution; a radius of 200 meters from the center - for the People's Armed Police, and within a radius of 2 km from the execution area - the line of responsibility of the local police. The public is generally not allowed to "watch" the performance.

In the past, the People's Armed Police played the role of executioner. V recent times, the legal force of the police took on this responsibility. "

Lethal injection is more commonly used against individuals who have committed economic crimes such as corruption. People who have committed murder and drug trafficking are shot more often. China seeks to switch to lethal injection, since the cost of the latter is lower than executions, it is also a more humane way of execution in the opinion of human rights defenders and from a psychological point of view for the prisoner's relatives, and execution by injection prevents workers from contracting HIV and other infections during the cleaning process after shootings ... The lethal injection is carried out in two stages: first, the prisoner is injected with anesthetic, after a few minutes, cyanide potassium, death occurs in a minute or two.

"The China Daily reported in 2009 that a special execution center has been built 20 kilometers outside Beijing to carry out executions, and the Chinese automaker Jinguan Auto is producing vans specially equipped for lethal injection."

If the execution is carried out by firing squad, after a while the family of the executed will receive a "bullet" bill. Such is the bureaucracy ...

Known corrupt officials, swindlers, drug dealers among the executed - the sea. Some of the Biggest Names: Ma Xiangdong, former mayor Administrative Center of Northeastern Liaoning Province, Shenyang City (2001), Former Chairman of the PRC State Food and Drug Administration Zheng Xiaoyu (2007, bribery), ex-president Capital Airports Holding Co Li Peiying (2009, bribery, misappropriation of funds), Head of the Hong Kong and Macau Office of the Hubei Provincial Government (2001, fraud), entrepreneur Wang Zhengdong (2008, fraud), businessmen Zhang Yujun and Geng Jiping (2008, made poor-quality products, poisoned several children with spoiled formula for baby food).

Of the most recently executed with big names - Liu Han - a billionaire, the former head of one of the largest mining corporations in China, the Hanlong Group, who was accused of organizing a criminal group, three of his associates were executed along with him. Liu Hanb was ranked 230th among the richest people in China.

Also - Svetlana Kulbaeva, a citizen of Kyrgyzstan, detained for transporting 7 kg of heroin, was also executed in February 2016. There was a lot of debate about Kulbaeva at the international level, they tried to save her life (at least that's what diplomats say), she says that she was simply used to transport drugs that she did not know about.

Now let's get back to organ transplantation. The fact is that there is a so-called "unfinished execution", when a shot is fired at a prisoner, he is taken to a hospital, where donor organs are removed, after which death is pronounced. This practice was widespread in China. And they manage to remove organs from prisoners who have just died from a bullet.

Lethal injection allows to reduce the time of delivery of both the deceased and the wounded prisoner to the hospital - organs can be taken directly in a special van. However, the heart becomes unusable as a result of the toxins from the injection.

In general, the number of executions in China and organ donation are inextricably linked. This is a huge business for China, After all, the services of organ transplants are usually used by wealthy foreigners, and not by the Chinese themselves. Sometimes no country will give as many chances for life as in China ... Potential executed - the base of hearts, kidneys, etc. for the state and foreigners.

According to some reports, the situation is even more inhumane:“Until 2007, before the operation, they did anesthesia, but then they decided that this was excessive humanism and extra budgetary expenses, and now those who are being executed are only tied tighter and gagged deeper.

Even before the operation, those sentenced to death are given immunosuppressive drugs, which increases the chances of organ engraftment in future recipients. Thanks to the organs received from those executed, the Oriental Organ Transplant Center has become the largest organ transplant center in Asia, and in terms of the number of organ transplants, China is more than three times the size of the United States. ”

I believe that such an unceremonious attitude towards death is associated with a devil-may-care attitude towards life. The Chinese generally relate to other people's lives as if they were not other people, but cockroaches. I don’t know how they relate to their life, but they certainly don’t value someone else’s life. Some baby soups are worth what .. Birth control program ... And what "bred" the representatives of this nation is immeasurable. They are losing the value of life.

Sometimes the line between life and death is not understood. Executions are treated normally, for them it is a common thing. They will not have such a shock as the Russians from seeing the execution with their own eyes.

For example, Chinese bloggers even rank the beauty of executed criminals.

Also on Chinese television every Saturday there is a program called "Interview before the Execution", the main characters are those sentenced to death. The program is very loved by the audience, the release gathers at least 40 million viewers. At the end of the article there is a release of this program in the Russian version - a very interesting video.

There are many victims among those executed, who were simply swept into the meat grinder of the dashing Chinese justice. For example, from the stories of executed women: her husband was a monster, kept a girl in slavery, let her friends rape her, from one of them she gave birth to a child, whom the civil husband strangled in a fit, beat her, as a result, her nerves lost her - she killed him. She was shot. Where is the justice here? Thousands of such stories.

Only the executions of the officials stealing are indicative. But this only means that they did not make friends with someone, for which they were swept out of the way. And in the bulk - executed ordinary people who stumbled, who themselves are victims, without a chance to appeal in their favor.

Many Russians triumph over videos from China of the execution. For example, they write: "Perhaps the death penalty is the best educational event in China."

We have a different country! We are not 1.5 billion. We have a different mentality. But the Chinese, even at their level of accepting death as a norm, have become brutalized, life has lost its value for them.

According to statistics, crime in some areas has increased by 20%. Where are the preventive measures and the edifying effect here? Treat like animals - get animals.

Video:
In China, a television broadcast of the preparation of a prisoner for death was held

It is a capital punishment. The only parts of this country that do not provide for such a radical punishment are Hong Kong and Macau, which are in a special situation due to the events of the middle of the 20th century, which gave rise to the well-known principle of "one country, two systems".

Since 2011, the Criminal Code of the PRC (People's Republic of China) provides for the death penalty for the following types deeds:

  • possession or distribution of drugs;
  • violent crimes (murder, rape);
  • corrupt practices;
  • pimping;
  • counterfeiting banknotes;
  • harm to national security;
  • production and sale of counterfeit drugs;
  • theft / storage of either weapon;
  • organization of escape from custody;
  • alcohol while driving, which has caused the death of people.

In addition, for the unauthorized organization and conduct of excavations of ancient burials, a severe punishment is imposed - the death penalty.

China is a country where convicts are executed by firing squad or lethal injection. In recent years, the second form of punishment has been used more often, since it is considered less severe for the convicts themselves and those who observe the execution procedure.

China does not officially report the number of sentences per year. The death penalty, according to certain assumptions of the countries of the Western world (USA, Great Britain, etc.), is carried out annually in relation to from two to seven thousand sentenced.

It should be noted that at the official level, the Chinese authorities are striving to reduce the number of people sentenced to death. In particular, a similar resolution was adopted at the Sixth Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPC (October 2006), which indicated that while maintaining the death penalty as a capital punishment, it is necessary to prevent erroneous sentences from being passed, to tighten the procedure for investigating crimes involving such a severe sentence.

In 2011, the Xinhua news agency reported that the death penalty in China has been abolished in relation to perpetrators (these are fraudsters, smugglers and businessmen. Elderly people (over 75 years old), adolescents and pregnant women are also exempted from the threat of capital punishment. (however, the latter can be forced to have an abortion).

The procedure for sentencing the "death penalty" in China is quite clear. Until 2006, such a verdict could have been passed by the People's Court immediately after the first. However, since 2006, the capital punishment must be approved by the Supreme People's Court of the PRC. After sentencing, the convicted person is entitled to a double appeal process. At the same time, the Criminal Code of the PRC allows the possibility of a two-year delay in the execution of the sentence, and after this delay, it is possible to change the sentence to the prisoner (the death penalty can be commuted to a life sentence).

The public death penalty in China is prohibited by the Code of Criminal Procedure (1996, part 4, article 212), which states that the execution of death sentences must be announced, but the execution procedure itself must not be public. However, judging by the fact that videos and photographs of executions in the PRC are spreading around the world, including via the Internet, it can be assumed that such actions are indicative measures addressed both to and to the rest of the world community. At the same time, it should be noted that the Chinese authorities are aware that, on the one hand, such measures are not the only way to fight crime, and on the other hand, while emphasizing the integrity and strength of the state machine, they become a vulnerable spot in international relations Celestial state with other countries condemning such a measure of punishment.

Gentlemen, I am saddened. Moreover, I am angry.
The complacency, warm-bloodedness, and also the idiocy of some of my compatriots cannot but amaze. They write with approximately the same degree of indignation about executions in Iran and executions in China.
I am infinitely sorry for the country where I was born and which is lost forever. The people of this country had a chance. The people Russian Federation... Cadres are everything (C). Personnel is not only special training, this is the concept of morality, duty and responsibility to the family, society and state.
It is an endless and difficult work to pull your country and your people out of the pit of immorality, anihilism and chimeras imposed by those who have forgotten how they went their way in their time. Because without this there will be NO economy.
In short, a tight and gloomy fog over one seventh of the land.

I am beyond rank and beyond my strength to assess editorial policy adagamov.info (15 thousand friends are already the media), I am worried about the comments on his posts, at least in that part of them where it comes about China.
Based on these posts, the following topics will be discussed in the near future:
1. Why the head of the State Office for the Control and Regulation of Food and drugs was sentenced to capital punishment.
2. What are Chinese prisons (thanks for the idea ashugaru )
3. Slaves in Shanxi province.

I'll start today with the following:
Criminal Code of the People's Republic of China:
“Article 48. The death penalty is applied only to criminals who have committed the most serious crimes. In relation to criminals sentenced to death, if there is no need to immediately carry out the sentence, it is possible to declare a deferral of execution for a period of 2 years.<...>»
“The death penalty must be preserved, but the imposition of the death penalty must be placed under the most serious control. This is the policy of the party and the state in the sphere of punishing criminal offenses "(from an interview with the press secretary The Supreme Court).
In the comments adagamov.info This is why I came across people who sincerely believe that the death penalty as a capital punishment has exhausted itself ... Maybe, maybe. oly_23777 reproached me for the dialogue - do you know that there are as many as 69 types of crimes in China for which they are executed ... "No, I don't know," I replied, "but I believe what a cause (!)" oly_23777 she even gave me a link to the Amnesty International report, which unfortunately did not open for me (the Chinese Internet has its own peculiarities, I was too lazy to turn on Tor for this). I was not too lazy - I found the entire list on the open Chinese Internet.
Let's forget about Russia, let's forget about the United States. Before us is a country of more than 1,300 million, with its own difficulties, its internal conflicts, which are smoldering like coal and are ready to flare up at any minute.
Who will throw a stone at her because the list of crimes for which the maximum punishment is assigned the death penalty is so wide? Show this list to ordinary Russians and ask what points are they willing to cross out?
Yes, in case this entry is read by liberals:
I REPEAT - this is a list of crimes for which the maximum punishment is imposed on the death penalty. And let Amnesty International rest. The death penalty according to this list, if it is imposed, is for a CASE (!), For which one can be executed in another healthy, respectable and whole society. This is not IRAN. This is a modern technological country, about which there are thousands of times more fables than truths circulating outside its borders.
So the list:
1) Treason;
2) Separatism;
3) Armed riots and riots;
4) Go to the enemy camp
5) Espionage;
6) Sale abroad by way of ransom, extortion, blackmail and other illegal methods of obtaining secrets and information of state importance;
7) Bribery by the enemy;
8) Criminal negligence resulting in fire;
9) Criminal negligence resulting in flooding;
10) Criminal negligence resulting in an explosion;
11) Criminal negligence resulting in the release of toxic substances;
12) Criminal negligence endangered public safety;
13) Damage to vehicles;
14) Damage to transport communications;
15) Damage to power equipment;
16) Damage to flammable or explosive equipment;
17) Hijacking of aircraft;
18) Illicit production, purchase and sale, transportation, mailing firearms, ammunition and explosives;
19) Illegal purchase and sale, transportation of nuclear materials;
20) Theft of small arms, ammunition, explosives;
21) Robbery of small arms, ammunition, explosives;
22) Production, sale of poisoned or harmful food products;
23) Production, sale of counterfeit medicines;
24) Smuggling of weapons and ammunition;
25) Smuggling of nuclear materials;
26) Smuggling of counterfeit banknotes;
27) Smuggling cultural property;
28) Smuggling precious metals;
29) Smuggling of rare species of animals and items from them;
30) Smuggling of common goods and material values;
31) Solid waste smuggling;
32) Production of counterfeit banknotes;
33) Stock fraud;
34) Fraud with bills;
35) Fraud with financial instruments;
36) Fraud with letters of credit;
37) Issuance of fictitious VAT checks in order to extract illegal profit from the return of export VAT, as well as non-payment of taxes and duties;
38) Printing, sale of fake VAT checks of a special statutory form;
39) Intentional murder;
40) Intentional infliction of bodily harm;
41) Rape;
42) Rape of minors;
43) Taking hostages;
44) Abduction and sale of women and children;
45) Robbery;
46) Theft;
47) Transfer of information about the method of committing a crime to other persons, incitement;
48) Armed escape;
49) Organization and assistance in an armed escape;
50) Looting of ancient burial places and places of archaeological importance;
51) Looting the fossilized remains of ancient people, as well as ancient flora and fauna;
52) Smuggling, sale, transportation and production of narcotic substances;
53) Organization of brothels and prostitution;
54) Compulsion to prostitution;
55) Damage to military equipment, military installations, as well as military communications;
56) Deliberate supply of unusable military equipment or construction of unusable military installations;
57) Theft of state funds and property;
58) Bribery;
59) Failure to obey orders in wartime;
60) Concealment or knowingly false transmission of military information;
61) Refusal to transfer military orders or falsification of such;
62) Surrender;
63) Desertion from the front;
64) Obstruction of the fulfillment of military tasks;
65) Desertion;
66) Dissemination of rumors and unrest in wartime;
67) Theft or robbery of military equipment and material resources of military use;
68) Illegal sale or transfer to third parties of military equipment;
69) Mutilation, looting of the population in wartime.