industrial and commercial enterprises or individual operators without business licenses are not allowed to start business, carve official seals, sign contracts, register trademarks or advertise, and banks are not allowed to open accounts.
Any company or enterprise that engraves seals must rely on its 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 go to the public security organ at or above the county level where the unit is located to handle the seal engraving notice or letter of introduction, and then engrave it at the engraving factory or engraving shop designated by the public security organ with the notice or letter of introduction.
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whoever forges, alters, buys or sells or steals, seizes or destroys official documents, certificates and seals of state organs according to Article 28 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China
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 ten years and shall also be fined.
whoever forges the seals of companies, enterprises, institutions and people's organizations 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 or buys or sells 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.