Legal basis: Article 25 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Public Security Administration Punishment commits one of the following acts, and shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined less than 500 yuan; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan: (1) spreading rumors, falsely reporting dangerous situations, epidemic situations or police situations or intentionally disturbing public order by other means; (two) throwing fake explosions, toxic, radioactive, corrosive substances or infectious disease pathogens and other dangerous substances to disturb public order; (3) Threatening to set fire, explode or throw dangerous substances to disturb public order.
Article 114 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), whoever sets fire, cuts off water, explodes, releases toxic, radioactive, infectious disease pathogens and other substances or endangers public safety by other dangerous means, but has not caused serious consequences, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years.