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Legal analysis: the crime of reselling cultural relics refers to reselling cultural relics prohibited by the state. The so-called "cultural relics prohibited by the state" refers to cultural relics protected by the state and approved and published by the relevant competent departments of the state. 1992 National Cultural Heritage Administration and other departments issued the Notice on Strengthening the Management of Cultural Relics Market, which stipulated the specific scope of some cultural relics that are forbidden to be operated, referring to the first, second and third-class precious cultural relics that are not allowed to be operated without permission and other cultural relics with great historical, cultural and scientific value protected by the state.

Object elements of the crime of reselling cultural relics: the object of this crime is the national cultural relics management system. The national cultural relics management system is mainly a series of cultural relics protection laws and regulations with the cultural relics protection law as the core. According to laws and regulations, all the cultural relics left by the people of China in the underground, inland waters and oceans belong to the state.

Subjective elements of the crime of reselling cultural relics: this crime is intentional subjectively, with the purpose of making profits. The actor's lack of intentional psychology does not constitute this crime, but it must have a profit-making purpose at the same time to constitute this crime. For those who really have neither profit-making purpose nor exercise purpose, but are purely for personal interests, they are not punished as crimes. In addition, buying and selling cultural relics that are not known to be prohibited from buying and selling does not constitute a crime.

Legal basis: The crime of reselling cultural relics in Article 326 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) refers to a serious act of reselling cultural relics prohibited by the state for profit.

Article 64 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Protection of Cultural Relics violates the provisions of this Law and commits any of the following acts, which constitutes a crime, and shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law:

(1) Excavating ancient cultural sites and ancient tombs, and intentionally or negligently damaging precious cultural relics under state protection; (three) unauthorized sale or gift to non-state-owned units or individuals; (four) unauthorized sale or gift to foreigners;

(five) reselling cultural relics prohibited by the state for profit:

(6) smuggling cultural relics; (seven) theft, looting, dividing or illegal possession of state-owned cultural relics; (eight) other acts that hinder the management of cultural relics and should be investigated for criminal responsibility.