The judicial interpretation clearly stipulates that if one of the following circumstances occurs due to bribery, it shall be deemed as "serious circumstances" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 390 of the Criminal Law: (1) The amount of bribery is more than 200,000 yuan but less than 1 million yuan; (2) The amount of bribes paid is more than 100,000 yuan but less than 200,000 yuan, and under any of the following circumstances: 1. Bribery to more than three persons; 2. Bribery by using illegal income; 3. In order to carry out illegal and criminal activities, bribing state functionaries who are responsible for the supervision and management of food, medicine, production safety and environmental protection, which seriously endangers people's livelihood and infringes on the safety of public life and property; 4. Bribing state functionaries of administrative law enforcement organs and judicial organs, which affects administrative law enforcement and judicial justice; (3) Other serious circumstances.
The judicial interpretation clearly stipulates that if one of the following circumstances occurs due to bribery, it shall be deemed as "the circumstances are particularly serious" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 390 of the Criminal Law: (1) The amount of bribery is more than one million yuan; (2) The amount of bribes paid is more than 500,000 yuan but less than 1 million yuan, and one of the following circumstances exists:1. Bribery to more than three persons; 2. Bribery by using illegal income; 3. In order to carry out illegal and criminal activities, bribing state functionaries who are responsible for the supervision and management of food, medicine, production safety and environmental protection, which seriously endangers people's livelihood and infringes on the safety of public life and property; 4. Bribing state functionaries of administrative law enforcement organs and judicial organs, which affects administrative law enforcement and judicial justice; (3) Causing direct economic losses of more than 5 million yuan; (4) Other particularly serious circumstances.
The judicial interpretation also clearly stipulates the amount of "causing great losses to national interests", multiple bribery, combined punishment for several crimes, lighter punishment, mitigated punishment and exemption from punishment, probation and exemption from criminal punishment, and illegitimate property benefits obtained from bribery crimes.