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Is it illegal to lend a credit card to others?
According to the regulations of the International Credit Card Organization and the People's Bank of China, credit cards and their accounts are only used by cardholders approved by the issuing bank, and may not be provided, leased or lent to others. It is a crime of obstructing credit card management.

Legal basis:

Article 177 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan under any of the following circumstances; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan:

(1) Holding and transporting a counterfeit credit card knowingly, or holding and transporting a blank credit card knowingly, in a relatively large number;

(2) Illegally holding other people's credit cards, with a relatively large number;

(3) using false identification to defraud credit cards;

(4) Selling, purchasing or providing others with forged credit cards or obtaining credit cards by fraudulent means.

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.