Responses on academic qualifications

The staff of China Higher Education Student Information Network confirmed that before 2001, the information of all college graduates in the country was not published online, and this part of the existing information on the "Xuexin Network" was added online later. "The previous information was incomplete, resulting in no ID card information and personal photos of graduates before 2001, even if they wanted to add them."

Xue Xin's staff. com said that information related to student status is confidential in their database, and it is unclear how the education traffickers found it. "Although it is in the database, we will never provide a query method."

This person said that from 1994 to 2000, academic certificates were printed uniformly, and anti-counterfeiting measures were in place. "There is a watermark on the paper of the certificate when it is transparent, and the ink on the paper reacts fluorescently when illuminated by purple light. The border of the certificate looks like a line, but when enlarged, it is composed of miniature letters." For academic qualifications before 2001, it is recommended that the unit's manpower The Ministry of Resources verified it through Xue Xin. com, and it is best to be able to identify whether the certificate is forged.

Wang Chuanwei, a lawyer at Beijing Tianbo Law Firm, said that according to the "Criminal Law", anyone who forges the seal of a company, enterprise, institution, or people's organization shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, surveillance, or deprivation of political rights.

Wang Chuanwei said that the Supreme Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate have issued judicial interpretations on the handling of criminal cases of forging and selling forged higher education diplomas and degree certificates, and criminalized the act of forging the seals of higher education institutions to produce academic diplomas and degree certificates. Punishment; knowingly selling academic qualifications and degree certificates made with forged seals of higher education institutions shall be punished for the crime of forging the seals of public institutions.