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Is it legal to make your own electronic official seal?
Units (or individuals) applying for electronic seals need to apply for electronic seals at the Electronic Seal (Management) Center (Platform) first, and then make electronic seals for the applicants after completing the normal procedures and confirming that they are correct and legal, and import the made electronic seals into specific storage media, such as U disk or ic card, and submit them to the applicants. For the act of forging seals, which may be suspected of a criminal offence, please ask the parties to verify it themselves and determine it according to the actual situation.

People's Republic of China (PRC) electronic signature method

Article 32 Whoever forges, fraudulently uses or embezzles another person's electronic signature, which constitutes a crime, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law; If losses are caused to others, they shall bear civil liability according to law. Article 280 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) commits the crime of forging, altering, buying or selling official documents, certificates and seals of state organs. Whoever forges, alters, buys or sells official documents, certificates and seals of state organs or steals, seizes or destroys official documents, certificates and seals of state organs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights and shall also be fined. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined.

Crime of Forging the Seal of a Company, Enterprise, Institution or People's Organization Whoever forges the seal of a company, enterprise, institution or people's organization shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights and shall also be fined.

Crime of forging, altering or buying and selling identity documents Whoever forges, alters or buys or sells resident identity cards, passports, social security cards, driver's licenses and other documents that can be used to prove his identity according to law shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights, and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.