ABSTRACT
Under the Chinese Criminal Law, the provisions, which are used to punish corruption,† are more compatible with the UN Convention against Corruption. According to the dierent identities of criminals, there are two categories of corruption that are regulated in dierent chapters in the Chinese Criminal Code: One category is that the oenders work as the sta of the private sector, and the corruption that is committed by this type of oenders is laid down by Articles 163, 164, and the rst clause of Articles 183, 184, and 185. Accordingly, these provisions are in Chapter 3 of the special provisions of the Chinese Criminal Law, and Chapter 3 is laid down to penalize the crime of disordering the order of socialist market economy; another category of the Chinese Criminal Code pertains to the corrupt activities that were committed by civil servants or state personnel who work in the state organs. In the special provisions of the Chinese Criminal Law, there is an individual chapter used to regulate corruptions, which were committed by civil servants or state personnel, all of the articles in Chapter 8 are set to punish this type of oenders, and Chapter 8 is named corruption and bribery, starting with Article 382 through 396.
