颁布日期：20010831 　实施日期：20010831 　颁布单位：全国人大常委会

　　Order of the President of the People's Republic of China

　　No.56

　　The Amendment¹ II to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, adopted at the 23 rd Meeting of the Standing² Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on August 31,2001 is hereby promulgated³ and shall go into effect as of the date of promulgation⁴.

　　Jiang Zemin

　　President of the People's Republic of China

　　August 31,2001

　　（Adopted at the 23 rd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on August 31,2001）

　　In order to punish the crimes of cutting down trees for opening up farmland and of unlawfully occupying or indiscriminately using forestland and to effectively protect the forest resources, Article 342 of the Criminal Law is revised as follows：

　　“Whoever, in violation⁵ of the law or regulation on land administration, unlawfully occupies cultivated land, forestland or other farmland, and uses it for other purposes, if the area involved is relatively⁶ large and a large area of such land is damaged, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment⁷ of not more than five years or criminal detention⁸ and shall also, or shall only, be fined.”

　　This Amendment shall go into effect as of date of promulgation.