(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 23 [Attempted Crime] Where an offender has started to commit a crime, but fails complete it due to reasons other than the offender's will, it constitutes an attempted crime.
For an offender of an attempted crime, punishment may be alleviated or mitigated mutatis mutandis to a crime accomplished.
