{"topic_id":"cn_wildlife_law_art28_trade_ban","category":"exotic-pet-legality","context":"---\ntopic_id: cn_wildlife_law_art28_trade_ban\ncategory: exotic-pet-legality\ntitle: \"China Wildlife Protection Law (2022 revision) Art. 28 — ban on sale, purchase and use of nationally protected wildlife and products (禁售购利用)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"中华人民共和国野生动物保护法（2022修订）— 主席令第126号，2023-05-01 施行（npc.gov.cn 本机网络仅回导航壳，全文经贵州省市场监督管理局官方镜像落盘）\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/exotic-b4/cn_wildlife_protection_law_2022.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-29\ntokens_estimated: 449\nverified: true\nverification: c1_substring\nsource_document: \"Regional / state exotic pet legality law — 主席令第126号\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"全国人民代表大会常务委员会 (NPC Standing Committee) — 主席令第126号\"\n  title: \"中华人民共和国野生动物保护法（2022修订）第二十八条\"\n  url: \"https://amr.guizhou.gov.cn/zwgk/xxgkml/jcxxgk/zcfg/fl/202401/t20240129_83646032.html\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-29\"\n  ref: \"中华人民共和国主席令第126号\"\n  doc_type: \"official text extract\"\n  needs_review: false\n---\n\n# China Wildlife Protection Law (2022 revision) Art. 28 — ban on sale, purchase and use of nationally protected wildlife and products (禁售购利用)\n\nVerbatim first-hand clauses from Article 28 of the Wildlife Protection Law of the People's Republic of China (2022 revision, Presidential Order No. 126, effective 2023-05-01). Chinese original is the C1-verified text (each clause a byte-substring of the saved source file); an English gloss follows each clause. This article bans the sale, purchase and use of nationally key protected wildlife and products thereof, with a permit-and-label exception — the core trade restriction relevant to exotic-pet commerce.\n\n## Verbatim C1 claims (each a byte-substring of the source file)\n\n1. 中文原文：禁止出售、购买、利用国家重点保护野生动物及其制品。\n   EN: The sale, purchase and use of nationally key protected wildlife and products thereof is prohibited.\n2. 中文原文：因科学研究、人工繁育、公众展示展演、文物保护或者其他特殊情况，需要出售、购买、利用国家重点保护野生动物及其制品的，应当经省、自治区、直辖市人民政府野生动物保护主管部门批准，并按照规定取得和使用专用标识，保证可追溯，但国务院对批准机关另有规定的除外。\n   EN: Where sale, purchase or use is needed for scientific research, captive breeding, public exhibition, cultural-relic preservation or other special circumstances, approval by the provincial-level wildlife-protection authority is required, and a special label must be obtained and used as prescribed to ensure traceability, except where the State Council provides otherwise.\n3. 中文原文：出售、利用有重要生态、科学、社会价值的陆生野生动物和地方重点保护野生动物及其制品的，应当提供狩猎、人工繁育、进出口等合法来源证明。\n   EN: Sale or use of terrestrial wildlife with important ecological, scientific and social value (三有) or locally key protected wildlife and their products requires legal-origin proof of hunting, captive breeding or import/export.\n\nRelated: `cn_wildlife_law_art25_captive_breeding`, `cn_wildlife_3you_list_2023`, `cn_protected_wildlife_list_2021`.\n","sources":["California Department of Fish and Wildlife — 'Living with Wildlife' — 中华人民共和国野生动物保护法（2022修订）第二十八条 (retrieved 2026-07-29)"],"source":{"authority":"California Department of Fish and Wildlife — 'Living with Wildlife'","title":"中华人民共和国野生动物保护法（2022修订）第二十八条","url":"https://amr.guizhou.gov.cn/zwgk/xxgkml/jcxxgk/zcfg/fl/202401/t20240129_83646032.html","retrieved":"2026-07-29","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Regional / state exotic pet legality law — 主席令第126号","verification_file":"pdf-raw/exotic-b4/cn_wildlife_protection_law_2022.txt"},"source_document":"Regional / state exotic pet legality law — 主席令第126号","source_file":"pdf-raw/exotic-b4/cn_wildlife_protection_law_2022.txt","tokens_estimated":449,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}