There is no criminal punishment or administrative punishment for academic counterfeiters. However, in academic fraud, there is a kind of fraud that may infringe on the intellectual property rights of others, such as copying other people's academic papers. The infringer shall stop the infringement and make economic compensation for the economic interests involved. Of course, it is not timely to regulate this kind of academic fraud only according to the law, nor can it solve the present situation. It is necessary to combine moral and institutional norms to make moral condemnation, and the system should withdraw the degree or title or stop practicing.

Criminal law of the people's Republic of China

Article 284 Whoever illegally uses special equipment for eavesdropping or stealing photos, thus causing serious consequences, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years, criminal detention or public surveillance.

Article 284-1 Whoever organizes cheating in the national examination prescribed by law shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he 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 provides cheating equipment or other assistance for others to commit the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Whoever illegally sells the test questions and answers specified in the first paragraph or provides them to others for cheating in the exam shall be punished in accordance with the first paragraph. Those who replace others or let others take the examinations prescribed in the first paragraph instead of themselves shall be sentenced to criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also or only be fined.