2024/9/2 凌晨12:25 Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China circumstances are relatively serious, 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 the circumstances are serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 3 years but not more than 7 years, and concurrently, a fine. If the circumstances are especially serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 7 years, and concurrently, a fine or confiscation of property. Whoever, knowing that another person manufactures narcotic drugs, manufactures, trades, or transports the substances mentioned in the preceding paragraph for this person shall be convicted and punished as an accomplice in the crime of manufacturing narcotic drugs. An entity committing a crime as prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs shall be fined, and the directly responsible persons in charge and other directly responsible persons shall be punished in accordance with the corresponding provisions in the preceding two paragraphs. Article 351 Unlawfully cultivated opium poppies, marijuana, or other narcotic plants shall be compulsorily uprooted. Whoever cultivates the aforementioned plants under any of the following circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 5 years, short-term custody, or non-custodial correction, and concurrently, a fine: (1) cultivating not less than 500 but less than 3,000 opium poppies, or other narcotic plants in a relatively large quantity; (2) recultivating any of the abovementioned plants after being handled by the public security organ; or (3) resisting the uprooting of the abovementioned plants. Whoever unlawfully cultivates not less than 3,000 opium poppies or other narcotic plants in a large quantity shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 5 years, and concurrently, a fine or confiscation of property. Whoever unlawfully cultivates opium poppies or other narcotic plants but voluntarily uproots them before harvest may be exempted from punishment. Article 352 Whoever unlawfully trades, transports, carries, or possesses seeds or seedlings which have not been inactivated of opium poppies or of other narcotic plants, if the quantity is relatively large, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 3 years, short-term custody, or non-custodial correction, and concurrently a fine, or shall be sentenced to a fine only. Article 353 Whoever induces, abets, or deceives another person to take or inject narcotic drugs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 3 years, short-term custody, or noncustodial correction, and concurrently, a fine. If the circumstances are serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 3 years but not more than 7 years, and concurrently, a fine. Whoever forces another person to take or inject narcotic drugs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 3 years but not more than 10 years, and concurrently, a fine. en.npc.gov.cn.cdurl.cn/2020-12/26/c_921604_13.htm 29/40