Mass gambling or gambling as a business,
may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of less than three years, detention or control, and fines.
Whoever opens a casino may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, detention or control, and fined;
Where the circumstances are serious, the penalty shall be fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and fined.
2 Article 303 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China
Gambling crime; the crime of opening casinos for the purpose of profit, gathering people to gamble or gambling as a business,
shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, detention or control, and shall be punished by a fine.
Opening a casino is punishable by fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or control, and a fine;
In serious cases, the penalty is fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and a fine.