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How old is a minor to be an adult?
According to Chinese law, adults should be 18 years old. If it is/kloc-a minor over the age of 0/6, who takes his own labor income as his main source of livelihood, he is regarded as a person with full capacity for civil conduct, that is, an adult. /kloc-Natural persons over 0/8 years old are adults. A natural person under the age of eighteen is a minor.

Citizens in People's Republic of China (PRC) who have reached the age of 18 have the right to vote and stand for election, regardless of nationality, race, sex, occupation, family background, religious belief, education level, property status and length of residence, except those who are deprived of political rights according to law.

Those who have reached the age of 14 and are under the age of 18 who violate the administration of public security shall be given a lighter punishment. /kloc-those under the age of 0/4 who violate the administration of public security shall be exempted from punishment, but they may be admonished and ordered to be strictly disciplined by their guardians. According to this regulation, people who have reached the age of 18 who violate the administration of public security shall be punished according to law. A person who has reached the age of 18 commits a crime and should bear full criminal responsibility.

According to the law, a person who has reached the age of 16 commits a crime and should bear criminal responsibility. A person who has reached the age of 14 and is under the age of 16 commits murder, serious injury, robbery, arson, habitual theft or other crimes that seriously disturb social order, and shall bear criminal responsibility. People who have reached the age of 14 but under the age of 18 cannot ask for a lighter or mitigated punishment on the grounds of being young. The death penalty is not applicable to people who are under the age of 18 at the time of committing the crime. Those who have reached the age of 16 but are under the age of 18, if the crime is particularly serious, may be sentenced to death with a two-year suspension.

Legal basis: Article 2 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Protection of Minors. Minors mentioned in this Law refer to citizens under the age of 18.

Article 5 The state, society, schools and families shall educate minors in ideals, morality, science, culture, legal system, national security, health and labor, strengthen education in patriotism, collectivism and Socialism with Chinese characteristics, cultivate public morality of loving the motherland, people, labor, science and socialism, resist the erosion of capitalism, feudalism and other decadent ideas, and guide minors to establish and develop.