Establishing a medical institution for practice of medicine without approval or opening practice of medicine by an unqualified doctor shall be banned by the administrative department of health under the people’s government at or above the county level; the illegal gains and medicines and instruments involved in the case shall be confiscated, a fine of not more than RMB 100,000 yuan imposed and, if there is any doctor involved, the practicing certificate of doctors revoked; if harm occurs to the patient, the person who causes the harm shall bear the responsibility of compensation according to law; if a crime has been constituted, criminal liability shall be investigated according to law.

(Lawyer Wu Yingjie)