Czhou Hen On the issue of improvement of Art. 256 of the Criminal Code of the People’s Republic of China.

Abstract: Under Art. 256 of the Criminal Code of the it is criminally prohibited to frustrate the elections or to impede the election rights of electors and their representatives with use of threats, violence, fraud, bribing, forgery of election documents, provision of false information on a number of election bulletins and other similar means with the aggravative circumstances. It's been a decade since the new Criminal Code of China was adopted, but the above-mentioned article was never amended or changed. This article is devoted to study of the flaws in this article and means of its improvement.