According to the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the provisions are as follows:
Article 20 In order to protect the state, public interests, the person, property and other rights of oneself or others from ongoing unlawful infringement, stopping the unlawful infringement and causing damage to the unlawful infringer, it is justifiable defense and does not bear criminal responsibility.
If justifiable defense obviously exceeds the necessary limit and causes great damage, criminal responsibility shall be borne, but the punishment shall be mitigated or exempted.
Taking defensive actions against violent crimes such as assault, murder, robbery, rape, kidnapping, etc., which seriously endanger personal safety, and causing casualties to illegal infringers, is not excessive defense and does not bear criminal responsibility.
Extended data
1. Self-defense shall meet the following conditions:
(1) Self-defense must be aimed at unlawful infringement;
(2) It must be in the process of illegal infringement;
(3) Self-defense cannot exceed a certain limit.
2. The crime of excessive defense mainly has the following forms:
(1) The defender knows that his defensive behavior will obviously exceed the necessary limit of legitimate defense, causing great damage. It is an indirect and intentional over-defense to let this great damage happen in order to achieve the purpose of self-defense.
(2) Defenders are overconfident and negligent when they know that their defensive behavior may obviously exceed the necessary limit of justifiable defense and cause great damage.
(3) Defenders should know that their actions have obviously exceeded the necessary limits of self-defense and caused great damage. If they didn't foresee it, or even caused huge losses due to negligence, it was negligence.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate-People's Republic of China (PRC) criminal law