Criminal law can be divided into broad and narrow senses. Criminal law in a broad sense is the general term for all criminal legal norms, which includes

(1) Criminal Code.

(2) Separate criminal regulations. For example, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the "Decision on Punishing the Crimes of Fraudulent Purchase of Foreign Exchange, Evasion of Foreign Exchange, and Illegal Trading of Foreign Exchange" adopted in December 1999.

(3) Subsidiary criminal law norms. That is, criminal liability provisions in non-criminal statutes. For example, Article 46 of the Price Law stipulates: If a price employee leaks state secrets, commercial secrets, abuses power, engages in malpractice for personal gain, neglects his duties, solicits or accepts bribes, and constitutes a crime, he shall be held criminally responsible in accordance with the law. The "Price Law" belongs to administrative law, but since Article 46 involves the pursuit of criminal liability, it belongs to subsidiary criminal law norms, and therefore falls within the scope of broad criminal law.

Criminal law in the narrow sense only refers to the criminal code. That is, the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China was revised and adopted at the Fifth Session of the Eighth National People's Congress on March 14, 1997, and came into effect on October 1, 1997. The criminal law discussed in the textbook is criminal law in a narrow sense.

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I think that the flexible provisions of ethnic autonomous areas/laws on criminal law in special economic zones should be confirmed as separate criminal laws or subsidiary laws based on the way they are promulgated. Criminal law, however, these broad criminal laws have limitations (such as geographical and ethnic restrictions on application).

As for the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Region, because it has certain extraterritorial legal rights and its basic law is a constitutional document, especially since Hong Kong is still a case law system of the Anglo-American legal system, it obviously cannot be classified into the scope of our country's criminal law.

Although the border between my country and Hong Kong is not a national border, it is a border. Therefore, my country’s criminal laws should not have such a high extraterritorial effect. Therefore, Hong Kong’s criminal jurisprudence cannot be used as my country’s broad criminal law.