Can't I stay in a hotel with someone else's ID card?

You must use a real-name registration system ID card to stay in a hotel. It is illegal to use someone else's ID card to stay in a hotel.

1. According to Article 6 of the Measures for the Administration of Public Security in Hotel Industry:

Hotels must register when they receive passengers. At the time of registration, the passenger's identity documents shall be checked and truthfully registered according to the prescribed items. To receive accommodation from overseas tourists, an accommodation registration form shall also be submitted to the local public security organ within 24 hours.

2. According to Article 56 of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law:

Hotel staff who fail to register the names, types and numbers of identity documents of the guests, or who knowingly bring dangerous goods into the hotel without stopping them, shall be fined from 200 yuan to 500 yuan.

Hotel workers who know that the overnight guest is a criminal suspect or wanted by the public security organ but do not report to the public security organ shall be fined from 200 yuan to 500 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for less than 5 days and may be fined less than 500 yuan.

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According to the Law of the People's Republic of China on Resident Identity Cards:

Seventeenth one of the following acts, by the public security organs fined two hundred yuan to one thousand yuan, or detained for ten days, illegal income, confiscate the illegal income:

(1) using another person's identity card or using a false identity card.

(2) buying, selling or using forged or altered identity cards.

Forged or altered identity cards and fraudulent identity cards shall be confiscated by public security organs.

Article 18 Whoever forges or alters a resident identity card shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Measures for the Administration of Public Security in Hotel Industry

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-China People's Public Security Administration Punishment Law