(Selected from the translated work titled The Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, authored by Robert Zhang and Steve Li, criminal defense lawyers registered in Shanghai, China.)
Article 2 [General Purpose] The general purpose of this Law is to combat all criminal acts with criminal penalties in order to defend and protect national security, the the political power and socialist system of the people's democratic dictatorship, state-owned property, collectively-owned property of the working people, privately-owned property, and the personal rights, democratic rights, and other rights of individuals, maintain social and economic order, and ensure the smooth progress of socialist development.
