Compared with other departmental laws, criminal law has two remarkable characteristics.

Legal analysis: Compared with other departmental laws, criminal law has two remarkable features: (1) The social relations regulated and protected by criminal law are the widest. Criminal law protects all social relations infringed by crime, which involves both economic base and superstructure. Civil law, economic law and other departmental laws can only protect and adjust certain social relations. Social relations protected and adjusted by all departmental laws are also protected and adjusted by criminal law. (2) The criminal law is the most severe. Any law is mandatory, and any actor who violates the social relations protected by law must bear the corresponding legal consequences and be intervened by the state's coercive force.

Legal basis: Article 2 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * The task of People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law is to fight against all criminal acts with penalties, safeguard national security, people's democratic dictatorship and socialist system, protect state-owned property and property collectively owned by working people, protect citizens' private property, protect citizens' personal rights, democratic rights and other rights, and safeguard social and economic order and socialism.