From October 20 to 22 by the Huangpu River in Shanghai, the 2026 Sustainable Global Leaders Conference will return. Nobel and Turing Award winners will speak on-site about the future and trends of technology, and there will also be a live dialogue between the internet-famous professors who "rescue" people from anxiety and the era of involution—Macfarlane and Xiang Biao! Limited spots available, first come first served. Let us go together to the appointment for sustainability! [Click to register] Four men mined sand and soil in a village and sifted for gold, extracting more than 300 grams of gold in nine days. They sold the gold and obtained more than 260,000 yuan, and were later arrested by police. On October 17, the reporter learned from China Judgments Online that the Qianshan District People's Court of Anshan City, Liaoning Province, had recently issued a first-instance criminal judgment in this case. The four were convicted of illegal mining and each sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of ten months, ten months, seven months, and six months, all with one year of probation.
The court found after trial that Zhong, Ji, Fu, and Sun had orally agreed in advance before committing the crime that each would hold 25% of the shares. Zhong purchased mercury, and without obtaining a mining license, they hired excavators and loaders and used tools such as mercury and gold-mining sluices to mine sand and soil and sift for gold without authorization. On April 7, 2026, the four began digging soil in the land of villager Cao in a village in a town in Xiuyan County to prepare for gold sifting, and were immediately transferred by the town's land and resources department to a county bureau for handling. After the incident, the four did not repent, and on April 18 they went to land in a village in another township to mine sand and soil and sift for gold. From April 18 to April 24, the four mined sand and soil and sifted for gold in the land of a villager's home in that village every day from about 17:00 to about 5:00 the next morning, illegally extracting gold with a net weight of 310.11 grams and a purity of 82.5%. Zhong and Fu then went to Haicheng City and sold the gold to a shop in Ganwang Town, Haicheng City, obtaining 264,440 yuan.
From about 17:00 on April 26 to about 5:00 the next day, and from about 17:00 to about 22:00 on April 27, the four continued to mine sand and soil and sift for gold in the cow shed of resident Wu in a village in a town, and were caught by police from the Xiuyan County Public Security Bureau. The gold extracted on site weighed 3.6 grams. After the case occurred, the four defendants' illegal gains of 264,440 yuan were handed over to the county public security bureau, and the land at the gold-mining site had been restored and leveled.
The Qianshan District People's Court of Anshan City held that defendants Zhong, Fu, Ji, and Sun mined without obtaining a mining license, and their conduct constituted the crime of illegal mining. It was a joint crime and should be punished. The final judgment was as follows: Zhong, Fu, Ji, and Sun were convicted of illegal mining and each sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of ten months, ten months, seven months, and six months, all with one year of probation. The mineral products transferred with the case were confiscated in accordance with law and turned over to the state treasury. The illegal gains of 264,440 yuan seized by the public security organ were confiscated in accordance with law by the seizing authority and turned over to the state treasury.
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