Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law.
Article 151 Whoever smuggles weapons, ammunition, nuclear materials or counterfeit currency shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years and shall also be fined or confiscated; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to life imprisonment and confiscation of property; If the circumstances are relatively minor, 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. Smuggling cultural relics, precious metals such as gold and silver, or precious animals and their products prohibited by the state, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and his property shall be confiscated; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years and fined. Whoever smuggles precious plants and their products and other goods and articles whose import and export are prohibited by the state shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and fined. If a unit commits the crime specified in this article, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of each paragraph of this article.
Article 152 Whoever smuggles obscene movies, video tapes, audio tapes, pictures, books and periodicals or other obscene articles for the purpose of profit-making or dissemination shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than 10 years and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also be fined. Whoever evades customs supervision and transports solid waste, liquid waste and gas waste into the country from abroad, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and fined. If a unit commits the crimes mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs.