It is understood that the Measures for Handling Dissertation Fraud implemented by the Ministry of Education on 20 13 clearly stipulates that degree applicants may revoke their qualifications for obtaining a degree and may not apply for a degree within three years. For the business behavior of paper intermediaries, the Industrial and Commercial Bureau may impose administrative penalties because they are not operating within the business scope.

Writing papers involves two kinds of transactions: intermediary and demander, intermediary and author. The reporter learned from the retrieval case that the former transaction is the most prone to disputes, mainly because the paper written on behalf of him failed to pass the duplicate checking test of the school or was suspected of plagiarism, so he could not reply. What's more, after the intermediary received the deposit, there was no news. "Thesis writing is an illegal transaction, which violates the Academic Degrees Regulations and other relevant laws and regulations."

Lei Wu, a lawyer of Beijing Jingda Jinan Law Firm, said in an interview that the service contract concluded between the demander and the intermediary is "in violation of the mandatory provisions of laws and administrative regulations" in the case of "invalid contract", and the law does not protect the dispute between the two parties. Tan, a judge of the Third People's Court of Lixia District, Jinan, expressed the same view on the legal nature of the service contract between the intermediary and the demander in his thesis. He said that if the demander sued the intermediary to the court, the court could only reject the plaintiff's claim on the grounds that there was no legal basis for the claim and restore the original state. "Because the transaction is conducted online, it is difficult to determine the identity and address of the intermediary. Even if a judgment is made, it is difficult to implement it in reality. "