2024/9/2 凌晨12:25 Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China directly responsible persons shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 3 years or short-term custody. Article 328 Whoever illegally excavates ancient cultural heritage sites or ancient tombs of historical, artistic or scientific value shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 3 years but not more than 10 years, and concurrently, a fine. If the circumstances are relatively minor, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 3 years, short-term custody, or non-custodial correction, and concurrently, a fine. If there is any of the following circumstances, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and concurrently, a fine or confiscation of property: (1) illegally excavating an ancient cultural heritage site or ancient tomb that is identified as a national key cultural protection relic or provincial level cultural protection relic; (2) being the ringleader of a group that engages in illegally excavating ancient cultural heritage sites or ancient tombs; (3) illegally excavating ancient heritage cultural sites or ancient tombs several times; or (4) illegally excavating an ancient cultural heritage site or ancient tomb, and plundering precious cultural relics therein or causing serious damage to precious cultural relics. Whoever illegally excavates a fossil of the ancient human or animal which is of scientific value and is under state protection shall be punished in accordance with the provisions in the preceding paragraph. Article 329 Whoever forcibly seizes or steals state-owned archives shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 5 years or short-term custody. Whoever, in violation of the provisions of the Archives Law, sells or transfers state-owned archives without authorization, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 3 years or short-term custody. Whoever commits a crime as prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, which concurrently constitutes another crime prescribed in this Law, shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions which specify a heavier punishment. Section 5 Crimes of Impairing Public Health Article 330 In any of the following circumstances where the offender, in violation of the provisions of the Law on Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, causes the spread of, or a high risk of the spread of a Class A infectious disease or any other infectious disease against which preventive and control measures for Class A infectious diseases are determined to be taken in accordance with the law, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 3 years or short-term custody. If the consequences are especially serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 3 years but not more than 7 years: en.npc.gov.cn.cdurl.cn/2020-12/26/c_921604_13.htm 21/40