Changning City’s reminder on ensuring market supply and severely cracking down on illegal activities such as price gouging

Reminders and warnings on ensuring market supply and severely cracking down on illegal activities such as price gouging

All market operators in the city:

In order to ensure prices during the special epidemic prevention and control period stable and sufficient supply, and resolutely crack down on price gouging, hoarding, profiteering and other behaviors in accordance with the law to ensure that people’s lives are not affected to the greatest extent. The relevant matters are hereby reminded as follows:

1. At present,

The main urban area has sufficient inventory and market supply of daily necessities such as rice, flour, grains and oils, vegetables, meat, eggs, and milk

The general public can purchase normally and reasonably through multiple online and offline channels.

2. The majority of operators must strictly fulfill their main responsibilities for epidemic prevention and control and fully implement relevant epidemic prevention measures; they must strictly abide by price laws, regulations and policies, consciously enhance their sense of social responsibility, effectively strengthen price self-discipline management, and cooperate with the government in doing so. The market must ensure supply and stable prices, and no price gouging, no hoarding, and no violation of statutory price intervention measures and emergency measures; all designated pig slaughterhouses must strictly abide by the municipal government's regulations on pig wholesale prices, and must not increase the price difference between purchase and sale, and stabilize Wholesale pork prices.

3. Operators of all supermarkets, convenience stores, wholesale markets, and farmers’ markets must clearly mark their prices, ensure that the price tags are complete and the price content is true and clear. They are not allowed to sell goods at an additional price in addition to the marked prices; they are not allowed to charge Any unmarked charges; false and misleading pricing forms and pricing methods are not allowed to be used to sell goods; price increase information is not allowed to be fabricated or spread; prices are not allowed to collude with each other to manipulate market prices or disrupt market price order.

IV. All pharmaceutical sales companies, chain enterprises, pharmacies and other drug and medical device dealers must abide by the "Price Law of the People's Republic of China", "Hunan Provincial Price Supervision and Administration Regulations" and "Regulations on Commodity and "Regulations on clearly marked prices for services", "Regulations on Prohibition of Price Fraud" and other laws and regulations, strengthen price self-discipline, strictly follow the principles of fair, legal, honest and trustworthy pricing, and provide consumers with reasonably priced goods and services.

Each market business entity should standardize its own price behavior in accordance with the requirements of the reminder and warning letter, and consciously abide by the execution of price policies. Our bureau will carry out supervision and inspection in accordance with the law, strictly investigate and punish price violations, and publicly expose typical cases. If you find any price violations, please call 12315 to make a complaint.

Changning Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau

March 19, 2022