Article 280 of the Criminal Law: The crime of forging, altering or buying or selling official documents, certificates and seals of state organs refers to the act of illegally manufacturing, altering or buying or selling official documents, certificates and seals of state organs. Whoever commits this crime shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or deprivation of political rights; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 3 years 10 years.

The Steering Committee for Foreign Language Teaching in Colleges and Universities is a senior expert advisory body under the leadership of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education. Its predecessor was the Editorial Committee of Foreign Language Textbooks in Colleges and Universities. It is an academic institution in nature, but entrusted by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, it is also responsible for examining and issuing professional English certificates. Judging from this behavior, issuing English certificates is a kind of entrusted administrative behavior. Therefore, professional English certificates belong to official documents recognized by the state in the legal sense, so the crime of forgery in Article 280 of the Criminal Law should be applied to forging English CET-4 and CET-6 certificates, computer certificates, degree certificates and special seals for certificates.

Similar cases include the theft of license plates, which can be regarded as the crime of stealing certificates, official documents and seals of state organs.