Article 225 Whoever, in violation of State regulations, commits one of the following illegal business operations and disrupts the market order, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times for illegal gains or confiscation of property:

(a) without permission, the franchise, monopoly of goods or other goods restricted by laws and administrative regulations;

(2) buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated by laws and administrative regulations;

(three) without the approval of the relevant competent departments of the state, illegally engaged in securities, futures, insurance business, or illegally engaged in fund payment and settlement business;

(four) other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt the market order.

(2) the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC)'s decision on punishing the crimes of fraudulent purchase of foreign exchange, evasion of foreign exchange and illegal trading of foreign exchange.

4. Whoever illegally buys or sells foreign exchange outside the trading places stipulated by the state, thus disrupting the market order, if the circumstances are serious, shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Article 225 of the Criminal Law.

Where a unit commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of Article 231st of the Criminal Law.