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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	20 %		[15th of 38]
Bribe payers index	3.1		[19th of 19]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	27.33 %		[15th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	17.55 %		[15th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	24.93 %		[6th of 39]
Drug offences	3.9 per 100,000 people		[33rd of 46]
Executions	470 executions		[1st of 22]
Illicit drugs major transshipment point for heroin produced in the Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia; growing domestic drug abuse problem; source country for chemical precursors, despite new regulations on its large chemical industry
Judges and Magistrates	204,096		[1st of 35]
Prisoners	1,549,000 prisoners		[2nd of 168]
Prisoners > Female	4.4%		[57th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	0.03%		[84th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	119 per 100,000 people		[71st of 164]
Software piracy rate	82%		[20th of 107]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation China is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor; the majority of trafficking in China occurs within the country's borders, but there is also considerable international trafficking of Chinese citizens to Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and North America; Chinese women are lured abroad through false promises of legitimate employment, only to be forced into commercial sexual exploitation, largely in Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Japan; women and children are trafficked to China from Mongolia, Burma, North Korea, Russia, and Vietnam for forced labor, marriage, and prostitution; some North Korean women and children seeking to leave their country voluntarily cross the border into China and are then sold into prostitution, marriage, or forced labor
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - China is on the Tier 2 Watch List for the fourth consecutive year for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking, particularly in terms of punishment of trafficking crimes and the protection of Chinese and foreign victims of trafficking; victims are sometimes punished for unlawful acts that were committed as a direct result of their being trafficked, such as violations of prostitution or immigration/emigration controls; the Chinese Government continued to treat North Korean victims of trafficking solely as economic migrants, routinely deporting them back to horrendous conditions in North Korea; additional challenges facing the Chinese Government include the enormous size of its trafficking problem and the significant level of corruption and complicity in trafficking by some local government officials

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