People's Republic of China (PRC) Identity Card Law

Seventeenth one of the following acts, by the public security organs fined two hundred yuan to one thousand yuan, or detained for ten days, illegal income, confiscate the illegal income:

(a) using another person's identity card or using a forged identity card;

(2) buying, selling or using forged or altered identity cards.

Forged or altered identity cards and fraudulent identity cards shall be confiscated by public security organs.

Article 18 Whoever forges or alters a resident identity card shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law.

Whoever commits any of the acts listed in Articles 16 and 17 of this Law and commits criminal activities shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law.