Legal basis: Article 280 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) uses forged, altered or stolen identity cards, passports, social security cards, driver's licenses and other certificates that can prove identity according to law in activities that should provide identity certificates according to state regulations. If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also or only be fined.
Whoever commits the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph and constitutes other crimes shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of heavier punishment.
Whoever steals or fraudulently uses another person's identity to obtain the qualifications for higher education entrance, civil servant employment and job placement instead of another person shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also be fined.
Whoever organizes or instigates others to commit the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be given a heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
State functionaries who commit the acts mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs, which constitute other crimes, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of combined punishment for several crimes.