It is illegal to buy unearthed cultural relics. In any of the following circumstances, it shall be punished according to law:

1, reselling cultural relics prohibited by the state, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined;

2. If the circumstances are particularly serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and fined;

3. In violation of the laws and regulations on the protection of cultural relics, state-owned museums, libraries and other units sell or privately give cultural relics under state protection to non-state-owned units or individuals, the unit shall be fined, and the person directly in charge shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention.

How to punish the crime of intentionally damaging cultural relics

How to punish the crime of intentionally destroying cultural relics is considered from both subjective and objective aspects. Any natural person who has reached the age of criminal responsibility and has the ability of criminal responsibility infringes on precious cultural relics protected by the state and cultural relics that have been identified as national cultural relics protection units and provincial cultural relics protection units. In practice, the situation of destroying cultural relics is complicated, the degree of destruction is light and heavy, and the social impact is also different. When dealing with it, we should analyze it in detail and carefully distinguish the boundaries between illegality and crime. Obviously minor and harmless behavior cannot be treated as a crime.

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Legal basis: Article 326 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) resells cultural relics prohibited by the state. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he 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 a unit commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph, 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 paragraph.