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Article 225 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * violates state regulations and commits one of the following illegal business operations, disrupting market order, and if the circumstances are serious, he 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.
The Supreme People's Court's Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in the Trial of Criminal Cases of Illegal Publications.
Article 11 Whoever, in violation of State regulations, publishes, prints, reproduces or distributes other illegal publications that seriously endanger social order and disrupt market order, if the circumstances are serious, shall be convicted and punished for the crime of illegal business operation in accordance with the provisions of Item (3) of Article 225 of the Criminal Law.
Article 12 An individual who commits one of the following acts as stipulated in Article 11 of this Interpretation is an illegal business operation with "serious circumstances": (1) The business amount is between 50,000 yuan and 100,000 yuan; (two) the amount of illegal income is more than twenty thousand yuan to thirty thousand yuan; (three) operating 5000 newspapers or 5000 periodicals or 2000 books or more than 500 kinds of audio-visual products and electronic publications.
In any of the following circumstances, it is illegal to operate "if the circumstances are particularly serious": (1) the business amount is more than 150,000 yuan but less than 300,000 yuan; (two) the amount of illegal income is more than fifty thousand yuan to one hundred thousand yuan; (3) dealing in newspapers, periodicals 15000 or books, audio-visual products and electronic publications 1500 or more.