Legal basis: Article 177th of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) is under any of the following circumstances. Whoever forges or alters financial tickets shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment. (1) Forging or altering bills of exchange, promissory notes or cheques; (2) Forging or altering other bank settlement vouchers such as entrusted collection vouchers, remittance vouchers and bank deposit vouchers; (3) Forging or altering letters of credit or accompanying documents and vouchers; (4) Forged credit cards. If a unit commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. In any of the following circumstances, whoever impairs the management of credit cards shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan, or if there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than 10 years, and shall also be fined not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan: (1) Holding and transporting a forged credit card knowingly, or holding and transporting a forged blank credit card knowingly, and (2) illegally holding another person's credit 4) Selling, buying or providing others with forged credit cards or obtaining credit cards under false identities. Whoever steals, buys or illegally provides credit card information of others shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Any employee of a bank or other financial institution who takes advantage of his position to commit the crime mentioned in the second paragraph shall be given a heavier punishment.