Don’t hire agents to handle evaluations, don’t pay for ghostwritten papers, and don’t falsify any application materials: any proven violations will result in immediate revocation of your professional title and a 3-year entry in your integrity record

No direct monetary cost. The real challenge is resisting tempting ads promising “guaranteed approval for a fee.”

As stipulated in Order No. 40 issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, anyone found to have submitted false materials, plagiarized others’ work or academic achievements, or obtained a professional title through any other improper means will have their title revoked. This violation is also logged into the professional title evaluation integrity database and shared with the national credit information platform for a 3-year period. The 2024 regulatory guidelines specifically list several prohibited acts by applicants: making false commitments, fabricating personal information, commissioning ghostwritten papers, falsifying work achievements, and seeking special treatment via personal connections. Applicants must sign a personal commitment statement; failure to honor this agreement results in a 3-year ban on all future applications. Labor and social security authorities collaborate with public security, internet regulatory, and market supervision agencies to investigate and penalize agents that run fake websites, make misleading claims, use contract traps, pose as official evaluators, or sell counterfeit certificates. In cases where violations are severe enough to constitute a crime, relevant parties will be handed over to judicial authorities for prosecution (nationwide).

人力资源和社会保障部令第 40 号 (2019). 职称评审管理暂行规定. https://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2019/content_5437137.htm：第三十九条；人力资源社会保障部 (2024). 职称评审监管暂行办法. https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/202408/content_6969436.htm：第五条、第十五条、第十七条、第二十七条；人力资源社会保障部办公厅 (2022). 关于进一步做好职称评审工作的通知. https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/2022-12/24/content_5733407.htm：「未经备案的职称评审委员会，评审结果不纳入全国职称评审信息查询验证系统」；新华社 (2024). 职称评审进入高峰，信息如何查？有何新变化？ https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/202410/content_6978917.htm：「大家可通过www.12333.gov.cn网页、手机12333客户端、人力资源社会保障部门户网站、“人力资源和社会保障部”微信公众号等多种渠道进行登录」；最高人民法院、最高人民检察院 (2019). 关于办理组织考试作弊等刑事案件适用法律若干问题的解释（法释〔2019〕13 号，第一条）. https://www.spp.gov.cn/spp/xwfbh/wsfbh/201909/t20190903_430901.shtml：「国家统一法律职业资格考试、国家教师资格考试、注册会计师全国统一考试、会计专业技术资格考试……等专业技术资格考试」

One way to tell real from fake: a title from a proper review can be found on the national title-review information query platform. Entry points are the 12333 website, the 12333 mobile app, and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security site. Titles from review committees that were not filed cannot be found in that system. So promises of "guaranteed pass," "no need for you to attend," or "usable even if the certificate cannot be found" can basically be treated as problems. The beneficiary is mainly you; benefit magnitude is set by "avoiding title revocation and a 3-year integrity record." The accounting professional qualification exam is on the judicial interpretation list of "national examinations provided for by law"; arranging a substitute sitter, selling answers, or organizing cheating in that kind of exam is a crime. Simply buying answers and peeking yourself is not listed as a crime in the statute and is handled under the exam's discipline rules; see Section 9, item 29 (do not arrange a substitute sitter).