{"id":1657,"date":"2017-10-24T22:18:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T21:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.endcorporalpunishment.net\/?page_id=1657"},"modified":"2024-09-20T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T10:13:04","slug":"china","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/china\/","title":{"rendered":"China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n            <div class=\"separator- glacier-section\"  id=\"section-69d799e82830e\">\n            <div class=\"container\">\n                <section>\n                    \n<div class=\"row\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-3\" style=\"background: transparent  \">\n\t\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/china-zh\/\" target=\"_self\" style=\"border-radius: 100px;\" class=\"btn btn-default  \">\n    \u4e2d\u6587\u9605\u8bfb<\/a>\n\n<div class=\"feature-box text-center media-box \">\n    <div class=\"fbox-media\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" data-no-retina src=\"\/\/www.endcorporalpunishment.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/flag-antigua.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" class=\"img-responsive\" \/>\n        \t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"fbox-desc\">\n        <h2><\/h2>\n        <span class=\"subtitle\"><\/span>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-9\" style=\"background: transparent  \">\n\t\n<div class=\"heading-block text-left heading-block-line\">\n\t<h2 class=\"special-heading\" >Country Report for China<\/h2>\n\t<\/div><div class=\"text-block shortcode-container\" >\n\t<p>LAST UPDATED: August 2024<\/p><p>*China is committed to reforming its laws to prohibit corporal punishment in all settings.*<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"row\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12\" style=\"background: transparent  \">\n\t\n<div class=\"vertical\">    <ul class=\"nav nav-tabs\" role=\"tablist\">\n                    <li class=\"active\"><a href=\"#tabs-69d799e8290050\" role=\"tab\" data-toggle=\"tab\"> Summary<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li ><a href=\"#tabs-69d799e8290051\" role=\"tab\" data-toggle=\"tab\"> Legality <\/a><\/li>\n                    <li ><a href=\"#tabs-69d799e8290052\" role=\"tab\" data-toggle=\"tab\"> UPR<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li ><a href=\"#tabs-69d799e8290053\" role=\"tab\" data-toggle=\"tab\"> Treaty bodies<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li ><a href=\"#tabs-69d799e8290054\" role=\"tab\" data-toggle=\"tab\"> Research<\/a><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n\n    <div class=\"tab-content\">\n                    <div class=\"tab-pane active\" id=\"tabs-69d799e8290050\">\n                <h3>China\u2019s commitment to prohibiting corporal punishment<\/h3><p>China expressed its commitment to prohibiting all corporal punishment of children by clearly accepting the recommendations to do so made during the Universal Periodic Review of China in 2018.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><h3>Summary of necessary legal reform to achieve full prohibition<\/h3><p>Prohibition is still to be achieved in the home, possibly some day care and alternative care settings.<\/p><p>Although the Law on the Protection of Minors 2020 prohibits maltreatment and domestic violence against minors, it requires parents and other guardians to \u201cconduct reasonable discipline\u201d of minors. There is no explicit prohibition of corporal punishment and there is no evidence that legal provisions against violence and abuse are interpreted as prohibiting all corporal punishment. The near universal acceptance of corporal punishment in childrearing necessitates clarity in law that no kind or degree of corporal punishment can be considered reasonable or lawful.<\/p><p>The Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency 2021 includes a provision authorising \u201cstrict discipline\u201d of children by parents and guardians. The law should make clear that this does not entail a right to inflict corporal punishment. All corporal and other degrading and humiliating punishment should be prohibited in relation to all children.<\/p><p><em>Alternative care settings<\/em> \u2013 Corporal punishment should be prohibited in all alternative care settings (foster care, institutions, orphanages, places of safety, emergency care, etc).<\/p><p><em>Day care<\/em> \u2013 Corporal punishment is prohibited in kindergartens and infant care institutions. Prohibition should be enacted in relation all day care for older children (day centres, after-school childcare, childminding, etc).<\/p>            <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"tabs-69d799e8290051\">\n                <h3>Current legality of corporal punishment<\/h3><h3>Home<\/h3><p>Corporal punishment is lawful in the home. There is limited protection from corporal punishment by parents in some circumstances: Rules in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone 1993 pursuant to the Law of the People\u2019s Republic of China on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women 1992 explicitly prohibit corporal punishment of the female child (art. 23), and the Law on the Protection of Minors 2020 (in force in June 2021) prohibits maltreatment and domestic violence against minors (art. 17 (1)). Article 2 of the Law Against Domestic Violence 2015\u00a0defines domestic violence as (unofficial translation): \" physical, mental, or other violations committed between family members by means of beating, binding, maiming, restricting personal freedom, and regular verbal abuse or intimidation\u2026\u201d. But article 16 (9) of the Law on the Protection of Minors 2020 authorizes parents and other guardians to conduct \u201creasonable discipline\u201d of children. Similarly, article 40 of the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency 2021 authorizes parents and guardians to implement \u201cstrict discipline\u201d of children.<\/p><p>The Government reported to the Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2013 that China\u2019s laws explicitly prohibit all corporal punishment of children, including in the home.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> However, provisions against violence and abuse in the revised Law on the Protection of Minors 2006 (further revised in 2012), the Criminal Law 1979, the Constitution 1982 and the Marriage Law (amended 2001) do not prohibit all corporal punishment in childrearing.<\/p><p>Following a number of high profile cases of the deaths of young children as a result of parental abuse and neglect, new child laws were drafted to address implementation of existing child laws and to strengthen protection for very young children.<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> However, the Anti-Family Violence Law adopted in December 2015 (in force March 2016) does not clearly prohibit all corporal punishment of children. Article 12 of the Law prohibits the use of violence against children by guardians but it does not explicitly prohibit corporal punishment. Family violence is defined in article 2 of the Law as \u201cthe physical and psychological and other harms perpetrated against family members in the means of beating, binding, injuring, physical constraints as well as frequent verbal abuse and intimidation\u201d (unofficial translation). Children are legally protected from some but not all forms of corporal punishment under this law.<\/p><p>The Government signalled its commitment to prohibition by clearly accepting the recommendation to prohibit in all settings made during the Universal Periodic Review of China in 2018.<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p><p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><h3>Alternative care settings<\/h3><p>There is no explicit prohibition of corporal punishment in alternative care settings (information unconfirmed).<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><h3>Day care<\/h3><p>Corporal punishment is prohibited in kindergartens and infant care institutions in the Law on the Protection of Minors of 2020, which states in article 27: \u201cTeaching and administrative staff in schools and kindergartens shall respect the personal dignity of the minors, and shall not subject them to corporal punishment or corporal punishment in disguised form, or commit any other act that humiliates the personal dignity of the minors.\u201d Article 119 states: \u201cIf schools, kindergartens, infant care institutions and their teaching staff violate the provisions of Articles 27, 28 and 39 [of this Law], they shall be ordered to make corrections by the public security, education, health and market supervision and administration departments and other departments in accordance with their respective responsibilities; if they refuse to make corrections or if the consequences are serious, the person in charge who is directly responsible and other persons who are directly responsible shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law.\u201d However, it is unclear whether these provisions apply to all day care for older children (day centres, after-school childcare, childminding, etc.).<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><h3>Schools<\/h3><p>Corporal punishment is prohibited in schools. Article 16 of the Compulsory Education Law 1986 states: \u201cIt shall be forbidden to inflict physical punishment on students.\u201d According to article 37 of the Teachers\u2019 Law 1994, teachers \u201cimposing corporal punishment on students and refusing to mend their way after being criticised\u201d are subject to administrative sanctions or dismissal and \u201cif the circumstances are serious enough to constitute a crime, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law\u201d. The Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency 1999 prohibits corporal punishment in work-study schools for children found to have perpetrated serious misbehaviour (art. 36): \u201c\u2026 Families and schools shall show concern for and take good care of the juveniles who study in work-study schools and respect their personality and dignity, and may not impose physical punishment on, maltreat, or discriminate against them\u2026.\u201d The prohibition is confirmed in article 27 of the Minors Protection Law of 2020 (see under \u201cDay care\u201d).<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><h3>Penal institutions<\/h3><p>Corporal punishment is explicitly prohibited as a disciplinary measure in penal institutions in a number of laws. Article 248 of the Criminal Law 1979 states: \u201cWhoever from the supervising or administering persons of a supervising or administering organ such as a prison, bridewell or house of detention subjects prisoners or internees to battery or corporal punishment shall, if the circumstances are serious, be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention. If the circumstances are especially serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than ten years. If deformity or death of another person is caused, the offender shall be decided a crime and given a heavier punishment according to the provisions of Article 234 or Article 232 of this Law\u2026.\u201d<\/p><p>Article 14 of the Prison Law states: \u201cThe people's police of a prison shall not commit any of the following acts: \u2026 (3) to use torture to coerce a confession, or to use corporal punishment, or to maltreat a prisoner; (4) to humiliate the human dignity of a prisoner; (5) to beat or connive at others to beat a prisoner; \u2026.\u201d Article 22 of the People\u2019s Police Law states: \u201cPeople\u2019s policemen may not commit any of the following acts: \u2026 (4) to extort confession by torture or subject criminals to corporal punishment or maltreat them; \u2026.\u201d Article 36 of the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency 1999 also applies (see under \u201cHome\u201d) and prohibition is included in the Regulations on the Behaviour of People\u2019s Police on Duty in Custody-houses 2001. In 2006, the Ministry of Justice issued \u201cSix Prohibitions on People\u2019s Prison Police\u201d and \u201cSix Prohibitions on People\u2019s Reeducation Through Labor (RTL) Police\u201d which include strict prohibition of beating or subjecting inmates serving a prison or RTL sentence to corporal punishment or instigating others to beat or subject an inmate to corporal punishment, regardless of the seriousness of the consequences of that punishment.<a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a> The Ordinance on Discipline for the People\u2019s Police of the Public Security Organs 2010 punishes the infliction of physical punishment of suspects and persons in custody.<a href=\"#_ftn5\" name=\"_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a><\/p><p>Article 4 of the Regulations on Detention Facilities 1990 states: \u201cPersons in custody in detention houses must be administered according to law in a scientific and civilized way so that their legitimate rights and interests can be guaranteed. Beating, corporal punishment and ill-treatment of persons in custody are strictly prohibited.\u201d There is a similar provision in the Regulations on Detention Houses 2012 (art. 3): \u201cDetention houses should guarantee the personal safety and legitimate rights and interests of persons in custody according to law. They should neither insult, mete out corporal punishment to and ill-treat persons in custody, nor instigate and connive at others\u2019 insult, corporal punishment or ill-treatment of persons in custody.\u201d<\/p><p>In 2012, the Supreme People\u2019s Court issued its Interpretation concerning the Application of the Criminal Procedure Law, confirming that the use of corporal punishment or disguised corporal punishment on defendants constitutes \u201cillegal means such as coercion of confession by torture\u201d as set out in article 54 of the Criminal Procedure Law.<a href=\"#_ftn6\" name=\"_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><h3>Sentence for crime<\/h3><p>Corporal punishment is unlawful as a sentence for crime. There is no provision for judicial corporal punishment in the Criminal Law 1979.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><h3>Other<\/h3><p>Corporal punishment is explicitly prohibited in the Regulations on Drug Rehabilitation, adopted in 2011 (art. 45).<a href=\"#_ftn7\" name=\"_ftnref7\">[7]<\/a><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> [2013], CRC\/C\/CHN\/Q\/3-4\/Add.1 Unedited Version, Reply to list of issues, Q15<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Reported in <em>South China Morning Post<\/em>, 21 January 2014<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> 26 December 2018, A\/HRC\/40\/6, Report of the Working Group, paras. 28(156) and 28(157); 15 February 2019, A\/HRC\/40\/6\/Add.1 Advance version, Report of the Working Group: Addendum<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Press release, 26 July 2006<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref5\" name=\"_ftn5\">[5]<\/a> 3 April 2014, CAT\/C\/CHN\/5, Fifth state party report, para. 42; see also <a href=\"http:\/\/english.gov.cn\/official\/2010-09\/26\/content_1709982_4.htm\">http:\/\/english.gov.cn\/official\/2010-09\/26\/content_1709982_4.htm<\/a>, accessed 5 August 2014<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref6\" name=\"_ftn6\">[6]<\/a> 3 April 2014, CAT\/C\/CHN\/5, Fifth state party report, para. 17<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref7\" name=\"_ftn7\">[7]<\/a> 3 April 2014, CAT\/C\/CHN\/5, Fifth state party report, para. 10<\/p>            <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"tabs-69d799e8290052\">\n                <h3>Universal Periodic Review of China\u2019s human rights record<\/h3><p>China was examined in the first cycle of the Universal Periodic Review in 2009 (session 4). No recommendations were made specifically concerning corporal punishment of children. However, the following recommendations were made and were accepted by the Government:<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cContinue its efforts: for the promotion of human rights (Oman); in legal and judicial reforms, economic development and other areas towards promoting a harmonious society, democracy, the rule of law and human rights (Viet Nam);<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cContinue enhancing the quality of life of its people through the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights and pursuant to international standards (Nicaragua);<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cAttach more importance to the protection of rights of the child through national plans for economic and social development (Qatar)\u201d<\/p><p>Examination in the second cycle took place in 2013 (session 17). No specific recommendations on corporal punishment were made. However, the following recommendations relevant to prohibition of corporal punishment were made and were accepted by the Government:<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cContinue its ongoing review of national laws to ensure that they are in line with its international human rights law obligations (Turkmenistan);<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cContinue to give consideration to the views of treaty bodies and other mechanisms (Kenya);<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cContinue to protect the rights of children (Mauritius);<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cContinue its effort to promote and protect the rights of children including further action against the abduction, maltreatment and abandonment of children (Ethiopia)\u201d<\/p><p>Third cycle examination took place in 2018 (session 31). The following recommendations were made:<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cProhibit corporal punishment of children in all settings, including in the home (Estonia);<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cExplicitly prohibit by law corporal punishment in all settings (Montenegro)\u201d<\/p><p>The Government supported the recommendations.<a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a><\/p><p>Examination in the fourth cycle took place in 2024 (session 45). No specific recommendations on corporal punishment were made. However, the following recommendations relevant to child protection were made<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[5]<\/a> and were supported by the Government:<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[6]<\/a><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cStrengthen further initiatives in the protection of the rights of children and youth (Brunei Darussalam);<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cCombat illegal and criminal acts that infringe the rights of children (Morocco)\u201d<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> 5 October 2009, A\/HRC\/11\/25, Report of the working group, paras. 114(2), 114(3) and 114(13)<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> 4 December 2013, A\/HRC\/25\/5, Report of the working group, paras. 186(54), 186(64), 186(77) and 186(80)<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> 26 December 2018, A\/HRC\/40\/6, Report of the Working Group, paras. 28(156) and 28(157)<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> 15 February 2019, A\/HRC\/40\/6\/Add.1 Advance version, Report of the Working Group: Addendum<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[5]<\/a> 11 March 2024\/A\/HRC\/56\/6, Report of the Working Group, para. 22(363) and 22 (364)<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[6]<\/a> 31 May 2024\/A\/HRC\/56\/6\/Add.1, Report of the Working Group: Addendum<\/p>            <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"tabs-69d799e8290053\">\n                <h3>Recommendations by human rights treaty bodies<\/h3><h3><em>Committee on the Rights of the Child<\/em><\/h3><p>(29 October 2013, CRC\/C\/CHN\/CO\/3-4, Concluding observations on third\/fourth report, paras. 6 and 7)<\/p><p>\u201cThe Committee, while welcoming the State party\u2019s efforts to implement the Committee\u2019s concluding observations of 2005 on its second periodic report (CRC\/C\/CHN\/CO\/2), notes with regret that some of the recommendations contained therein have not been fully addressed.<\/p><p>\u201cRecalling its previous recommendations, the Committee recommends that the State party take all necessary measures to address those recommendations that have not been implemented or not sufficiently implemented, and urges it to: \u00a0...<\/p><p>c) explicitly prohibit by law corporal punishment in the family, schools, institutions and all other settings, including penal institutions.\u201d<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><em>Committee on the Rights of the Child<\/em><\/p><p>(24 November 2005, Concluding observations on second report on China (including Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions), CRC\/C\/CHN\/CO\/2, paras. 46, 47 and 48)<\/p><p>\u201cThe Committee is concerned that in mainland China the existing regulations banning corporal punishment in schools are unevenly implemented. It is also concerned that corporal punishment in the home is not banned and continues to be socially acceptable.<\/p><p>\u201cThe Committee is concerned that corporal punishment within the family is not prohibited by law and continues to be practised in the home in the Hong Kong and Macau SARs.<\/p><p>\u201cThe Committee urges the State party, in all areas under its jurisdiction:<\/p><p>a) to explicitly prohibit by law corporal punishment in the family, schools, institutions and all other settings, including penal institutions;<\/p><p>b) to expand public education and awareness-raising campaigns, with the involvement of children, on alternative non-violent forms of discipline in order to change public attitudes about corporal punishment.\u201d<\/p>            <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"tabs-69d799e8290054\">\n                <h3>Prevalence\/attitudinal research in the last ten years<\/h3><p>A 2014 study which involved 2,518 mothers and fathers of 3-15 year olds found that 53.7% of the mothers and 48.3% of the fathers had physically punished their child in the past year.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Wang, M. &amp; Liu, L. (2014) \u201cParental harsh discipline in mainland China: Prevalence, frequency, and coexistence\u201d, <em>Child Abuse &amp; Neglect,<\/em> 38(6), 1128-1137)<\/p><p>In a survey of 1,200 first- and second-year university students, 32.1% reported experiencing corporal punishment by teachers when they were at school.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\">(UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (2012), <em>Child Maltreatment: Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences: A Systematic Review of Research<\/em>, Bangkok: UNICEF)<\/p><p>In a study of 2,363 parents, 43.8% said they had physical punished a child; 32.8% had done so in the past year.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Chan, K. L. (2010), \u201cCo-occurrence of intimate partner violence and child abuse in Hong Kong Chinese families\u201d, <em>Journal of Interpersonal Violence<\/em>, (epub ahead of print), 1-21, cited in UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (2012), <em>Child Maltreatment: Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences: A Systematic Review of Research<\/em>, Bangkok: UNICEF)<\/p><p>A study of the relationship between gender and physical punishment in China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand and the US, which used interviews with around 4,000 mothers, fathers and children aged 7-10, found that in China 48% of girls and 60% of boys had experienced \u201cmild\u201d corporal punishment (spanking, hitting, or slapping with a bare hand; hitting or slapping on the hand, arm, or leg; shaking, or hitting with an object), and 10% of girls and 15% of boys had experienced severe corporal punishment (hitting or slapping the child on the face, head, or ears; beating the child repeatedly with an implement) by someone in their household in the past month. Smaller percentages of parents believed it was necessary to use corporal punishment to bring up their child: for girls, 14% of mothers and 20% of fathers believed it was necessary; for boys, 36% of mothers and 33% of fathers believed it was necessary.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Lansford, J. et al (2010), \u201cCorporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender\u201d, <em>International Journal of Pediatrics<\/em>)<\/p><p>A survey of over 2,100 primary school children aged 9-12 found that 73% were physically punished by their parents, and this was associated with psychosomatic symptoms such as headache and abdominal pain.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Hesketh, T. et al (2010), \u201cStress and psychosomatic symptoms in Chinese school children: cross-sectional survey\u201d, <em>Archives of Disease in Childhood<\/em>, 95(2), 136-140)<\/p><p>In a survey of more than 100 children aged 6-15 and 126 parents, carried out by the NGO Against Child Abuse, 58% of parents admitted to smacking or caning their children in the previous 12 months. Almost half (47%) of children who had been physically punished said it had hurt them badly and a third thought it had damaged their relationship with their parents.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Reported in <em>Earth Times<\/em>, 4 May 2010)<\/p><p>In a study of 6,592 high school students, 23.2% reported experiencing corporal punishment in the past six months.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Leung, P. W. S. et al (2008), \u201cPrevalence and determinants of child maltreatment among high school students in Southern China: A large school based survey\u201d, <em>Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health<\/em>, 2(27), 1-8, cited in UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (2012), <em>Child Maltreatment: Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences: A Systematic Review of Research<\/em>, Bangkok: UNICEF)<\/p><p>A study of 810 parents with children of pre-school age found that 33% had used non-contact corporal punishment on their child.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Wang, F. Y. et al (2007), \u201cThe Prevalence of Physical Maltreatment by Parents in 810 Kindergarten Children\u201d, <em>Chinese Journal of School Health, <\/em>28(11), 987-990 [in Chinese], cited in UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (2012), <em>Child Maltreatment: Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences: A Systematic Review of Research<\/em>, Bangkok: UNICEF)<\/p>            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n                <\/section>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u4e2d\u6587\u9605\u8bfb Country Report for China LAST UPDATED: August 2024*China is committed to reforming its laws to prohibit corporal punishment in all settings.* Summary Legality UPR Treaty bodies Research China\u2019s commitment to prohibiting corporal punishmentChina expressed its commitment to prohibiting all corporal punishment of children by clearly accepting the recommendations to do so made during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1301,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1657","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26499,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1657\/revisions\/26499"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}