Wow cheating on exams can get you jailed in China

That seems way too harsh, in my country you only get disqualified from it and if you have the exam answers with you they may take you to the police station but only to investigate and learn how you got them, then they will release you. I guess that if you consider that the person cheating is robbing a sport from someone who deserves it then they do hate to get some kind of punishment, it could also work as a way to dissuade people from trying this kind of stuff