Is it illegal for someone to post information introducing prostitution on WeChat?

It is illegal to introduce prostitution information in WeChat groups.

1. Article 359 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" stipulates the crime of luring, harboring, and introducing prostitution; The following persons shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, criminal detention or surveillance, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and shall also be fined.

Whoever induces young girls under the age of fourteen into prostitution shall be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and shall also be fined.

2. "Regulations of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security on the Standards for Filing and Prosecution of Criminal Cases under the Jurisdiction of Public Security Organs (1)"

Luring, harboring, or introducing others to prostitution is suspected of the following circumstances: 1, a case should be filed for prosecution:

(1) Seducing, harboring, or introducing two or more people into prostitution;

(2) Seducing, harboring, or introducing a person who is under the age of fourteen. Minors over the age of 18 engage in prostitution;

(3) The person who is lured, kept, or introduced to prostitution suffers from AIDS or serious sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea;

(4) Other situations where inducing, harboring or introducing prostitution should be investigated for criminal liability.

Extended information:

Case: Recruiting prostitutes for profit online and introducing prostitution to receive punishment

First recruit prostitutes, then find prostitutes online, and solicit prostitutes for prostitution many times Matchmaking. After being prosecuted by the Bengshan District Procuratorate of Bengbu City, Anhui Province, in August 2014, the court sentenced Liu Yawei to five years and six months in prison and fined him 20,000 yuan for the crime of introducing prostitution.

Around July 2013, Liu Yawei published recruitment information on part-time massage and foot massage jobs on an Internet website for the purpose of making a profit, intending to make money by connecting prostitutes and prostitutes. From July to October of the same year, Sun, Wu, Han and many other local and foreign women got in touch with Liu Yawei. The two parties discussed that Liu Yawei would contact the prostitutes and the proceeds from prostitution would be divided 50-50.

Liu Yawei pretended to be a woman on QQ to solicit prostitution online, negotiated the price and location with the man who wanted to solicit prostitution, and then notified Sun and others. Then Sun and others followed the location informed by Liu Yawei and Prostitutes engage in sex trafficking.

As of November 2013, Liu Yawei had made illegal profits of more than 10,000 yuan.

Reference material: People’s Daily Online - Profit from soliciting prostitution online and introducing the penalty for prostitution