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2．The Specific Provisions of Criminal Law on Criminal Groups
In the adopted Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Severe Punishment of Criminals Who Are Gravely Destroying the Economy In 1982,anticle 118,152,171,173 of the criminal law were amended. In 1983, The Decision of the Standing Committee of NPC on Severe Punishment of Criminals Who Are Gravely Jeopardizing Public Security revised the article 160,141,99, etc. of the Criminal Law.
The original articles and the revised are compared below：
Article 118 Whoever，makes a regular business of smuggling or illicit speculation, smuggles or speculates in huge amounts, or is the ringleader of a group that smuggles or engages in illicit speculation shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than ten years, and may concurrently be sentenced to confiscation of property.
Article 152 A habitual thief or habitual swindler or anyone who steals, swindles or forcibly seizes a huge amount of public or private property shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and not more than ten years，and if the circumstances are especially serious，he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment，and may concurrently be sentenced to confiscation of property．
Article l71 Whoever manufactures, sells or transports opium，heroin，morphine or other narcotic drugs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and may concurrently be sentenced to a fine．
Whoever manufactures, sells or transports the narcotic drugs mentioned in the preceding paragraph continually or in large quantities shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and may concurrently be sentenced to confiscation of property．
Article l73 Whoever, in violation of the laws and regulations on protection of cultural relics，secretly transports precious cultural relics for export shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than ten years，and may concurrently be sentenced to a fine；if the circumstances are serious，the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment，and may concurrently be sentenced to confiscation of property．
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