Article 18 Criminal cases shall be investigated by public security organs, except as otherwise provided by law.
Crimes of corruption and bribery, crimes of dereliction of duty by state functionaries, crimes of illegal detention, crimes of extorting confessions by state functionaries by torture, crimes of retaliation and framing, crimes of illegal search, and crimes of infringing citizens' democratic rights shall be investigated by the people's procuratorate. If other major criminal cases committed by state functionaries by taking advantage of their functions and powers need to be directly accepted by the people's procuratorate, they may be placed on file for investigation upon the decision of the people's procuratorate at or above the provincial level.
Cases of private prosecution are directly accepted by the people's courts.
Article 19 The basic people's courts shall have jurisdiction over ordinary criminal cases of first instance, except those under the jurisdiction of the people's courts at higher levels according to this Law.
Article 20 The Intermediate People's Court shall have jurisdiction over the following criminal cases of first instance:
(1) Cases endangering national security and terrorist activities;
(2) Cases that may be sentenced to life imprisonment or death penalty.
Article 24 A criminal case shall be under the jurisdiction of the people's court of the place where the crime was committed. If it is more appropriate to have the case tried by the people's court of the defendant's domicile, it may also be under the jurisdiction of the people's court of the defendant's domicile.