1. What is the legal framework governing bribery in China?
China does not have a single comprehensive legislation/statute
governing bribery offences. Rather provisions governing
bribery-related offences are contained within a number of laws and
regulations, which principally are the PRC Criminal Law,
Anti-Unfair Competition Law (AUCL), and the Interim Provisions on
Prohibiting Commercial Bribery (the Bribery Provisions). The
interpretation and implementation of these bribery related
provisions are complemented by various judicial interpretations by
the PRC’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) and the Supreme
People’s Procuratorate (SPP) and other rules/regulations
issued by the Communist Party of China, and various government
ministries and authorities.
