Police recently told me a guy who stole some of my watches got sentenced to 4 years in prison.
A drug addict who broke into my house this summer, while I was on vacation, and took a couple of watches I had forgotten to put in the safe. Nothing too valuable, still, quite a lot here. Unfortunately for him he sold them for nothing, and couldn't pay when he got caught, which apparently added to his sentence.
I've been feeling bad for this guy - he probably needed the watches more than I did, and now he'll spend 4 years in prison here. I think a life sentence in China could just as well spell death.