A company without a business license cannot engrave an official seal. Engraving an official seal privately is a forged official seal and is illegal.

Industrial and commercial enterprises or self-employed individuals without a business license are not allowed to open their business. They are not allowed to engrave official seals, sign contracts, register trademarks, or publish advertisements. They are not allowed to open bank accounts.

Any company that engraves a seal must present a business license and the "Registration Certificate for Foreign-Funded Enterprises". If the enterprise is a Sino-foreign joint venture or Sino-foreign cooperative enterprise, it must present a letter of introduction issued by the Chinese party to the county where the unit is located. The public security organs at or above the level shall apply for a seal engraving notice or a letter of introduction, and then go to the engraving factory or shop designated by the public security organ to engrave the seal with the notice or letter of introduction.

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According to the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China"

Article 280: Forgery, alteration, trading or theft or robbery Anyone who destroys official documents, certificates, or seals of state agencies shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance, or deprivation of political rights, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than 10 years, and shall also be fined.

Whoever forges the seal of a company, enterprise, institution, or people's organization shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance, or deprivation of political rights, and shall also be fined.

Whoever forges, alters, buys or sells resident identity cards, passports, social security cards, driver's licenses and other documents that can be used to prove identity according to law shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights. , and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined.