Article 50 of the Criminal Procedure Law: All materials that can be used to prove the facts of a case are evidence. Evidence includes: (1) physical evidence; (2) Documentary evidence; (3) Testimony of witnesses; (4) the victim's statement; (5) confessions and excuses of criminal suspects and defendants; (6) Appraisal opinions; (7) Records of inquests, inspections, appraisals, investigations and experiments; (8) Audio-visual materials and electronic data. The evidence must be verified before it can be used as the basis for finalizing the case.
Article 52 Judges, prosecutors and investigators must, in accordance with legal procedures, collect all kinds of evidence that can prove the guilt or innocence of criminal suspects and defendants and the seriousness of crimes. It is strictly forbidden to extort confessions by torture and collect evidence by threats, enticements, deception or other illegal methods, and no one may be forced to prove his guilt. It is necessary to ensure that all citizens who are related to or know the case have the conditions to provide evidence objectively and fully, and they can be hired to assist in the investigation except in special circumstances.
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Article 343 of the Criminal Law stipulates: "Whoever, in violation of the provisions of the Mineral Resources Law, mines without a mining license, enters the state-planned mining areas, mining areas of great value to the national economy and other people's mining areas without authorization, and mines specific minerals that are subject to protective mining as stipulated by the state, refuses to stop mining after being ordered to stop mining, thus causing damage to mineral resources, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or control, and shall also or shall only be fined; Whoever causes serious damage to mineral resources shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined. Whoever, in violation of the provisions of the Mineral Resources Law, exploits mineral resources by destructive mining methods, thus causing serious damage to mineral resources, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also be fined.