1980.01.01
NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS
CRIMINAL LAW OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
(Adopted at the Second Session of the Fifth National People's
Congress on July 1, 1979, promulgated by Order No.5 of the
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
on July 6, 1979, and effective as of January 1,1980)
CONTENTS
PART ONE GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER I THE GUIDING IDEOLOGY, TASKS AND SCOPE OF APPLICATION OF
CRIMINAL LAW
CHAPTER II CRIMES
SECTION 1 CRIMES AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
SECTION 2 PREPARATION FOR A CRIME, CRIMINAL ATTEMPT AND
DISCONTINUATION OF A CRIME
SECTION 3 JOINT CRIMES
CHAPTER III PUNISHMENTS
SECTION 1 TYPES OF PUNISHMENTS
SECTION 2 PUBLIC SURVEILLANCE
SECTION 3 CRIMINAL DETENTION
SECTION 4 FIXED-TERM IMPRISONMENT AND LIFE IMPRISONMENT
SECTION 5 THE DEATH PENALTY
SECTION 6 FINES
SECTION 7 DEPRIVATION OF POLITICAL RIGHTS
SECTION 8 CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY
CHAPTER IV THE CONCRETE APPLICATION OF PUNISHMENTS
SECTION 1 SENTENCING
SECTION 2 RECIDIVISTS
SECTION 3 VOLUNTARY SURRENDER
SECTION 4 COMBINED PUNISHMENT FOR SEVERAL CRIMES
SECTION 5 SUSPENSION OF SENTENCE
SECTION 6 COMMUTATION OF PUNISHMENT
SECTION 7 PAROLE
SECTION 8 LIMITATION
CHAPTER V OTHER PROVISIONS
PART TWO SPECIFIC PROVISIONS
CHAPTER I CRIMES OF COUNTERREVOLUTION
CHAPTER II CRIMES OF ENDANGERING PUBLIC SECURITY
CHAPTER III CRIMES OF UNDERMINING THE SOCIALIST ECONOMIC ORDER
CHAPTER IV CRIMES OF INFRINGING UPON THE RIGHTS OF THE PERSON
AND THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS OF CITIZENS
CHAPTER V CRIMES OF PROPERTY VIOLATION
CHAPTER VI CRIMES OF OBSTRUCTING THE ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC ORDER
CHAPTER VII CRIMES OF DISRUPTING MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
CHAPTER VIII CRIMES OF DERELICTION OF DUTY
PART ONE GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER I THE GUIDING IDEOLOGY, TASKS AND SCOPE OF APPLICATION
OF THE CRIMINAL LAW
Article 1. The Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China,
which takes Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought as its guide and the
Constitution as its basis, is formulated in accordance with the
policy of combining punishment with leniency and in the light of the
actual circumstances and concrete experiences of the people of all
China's nationalities in carrying out the people's democratic
dictatorship, led by the proletariat and based on the
worker-peasant alliance, that is, the dictatorship of the
proletariat, and in conducting the socialist revolution and
socialist construction.
Article 2. The tasks of the Criminal Law of the People's
Republic of China are to use criminal punishments to
fight against all counterrevolutionary and other criminal acts in
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