Legal basis: Article 341 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) illegally hunts and kills rare and endangered wild animals under special state protection, or illegally buys, transports and sells rare and endangered wild animals under special state protection and their products, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and fined; If the circumstances are 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 the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years and shall also be fined or confiscated.
Whoever, in violation of hunting laws and regulations, hunts in a no-hunting area or during a no-hunting period or uses prohibited tools and methods to destroy wildlife resources, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or a fine.
Whoever, in violation of the laws and regulations on wildlife protection and management, illegally hunts, buys, transports or sells terrestrial wild animals that naturally grow and breed in the wild environment for the purpose of eating, if the circumstances are serious, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.