Is it illegal for pharmaceutical companies to give kickbacks to doctors?

Illegal behavior. Whoever pays bribes to state functionaries who are responsible for the supervision and management of food, medicine, production safety and environmental protection shall be investigated for responsibility according to law. Interpretation of Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Bribery Article 2 Whoever seeks illegitimate interests by bribery shall be deemed as "serious" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 390 of the Criminal Law: (1) The amount of bribes received is more than 200,000 yuan but less than 1 million yuan; (2) The amount of bribes paid is more than 100,000 yuan but less than 200,000 yuan, and under any of the following circumstances: 1. Bribery to three or more persons; 2. Bribery by using illegal income; 3. In order to carry out illegal and criminal activities, bribing state functionaries who are responsible for the supervision and management of food, medicine, production safety and environmental protection, which seriously endangers people's livelihood and infringes on the safety of public life and property; 4. Bribing state functionaries of administrative law enforcement organs and judicial organs, which affects administrative law enforcement and judicial justice; (2) Other serious circumstances.