Legal basis: Article 15 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Resident Identity Cards. No organization or individual may detain a resident identity card.
Article 16 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) has one of the following acts, and the public security organ shall give it a warning and impose a fine of not more than 200 yuan. If there is illegal income, the illegal income shall be confiscated: 1. Using false certification materials to defraud resident identity cards; 2. Renting, lending or transferring resident identity cards; 3. Illegally detaining other people's ID cards.