China News Service, June 18, 18th, the Beijing Municipal Government Information Office held a regular press conference for epidemic prevention and control. The head of the Beijing Municipal Market Supervision and Enforcement Corps, Kuang Xu, said at the meeting that the city’s market supervision department will keep an eye on complaints, public opinion and public exposure, continue to increase price enforcement, and prevent prices such as vegetables from rising too fast and too high.
According to Kuang Xu, since the outbreak of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, the city’s market supervision department has served the overall situation of the capital’s prevention and control work, with the goal of securing supply and stabilizing prices, and struck hard to increase the price supervision of epidemic prevention supplies and daily necessities. According to the "Price Law" and "Administrative Penalties for Price Illegal Acts" and the State Administration of Market Supervision's "Opinions on Strictly and Strictly Combating Violations during the Prevention and Control of New Coronavirus Epidemic Diseases", we will take the opportunity of epidemic prevention and control Illegal prices, hoarding and other illegal acts that disturb the market price order have effectively guaranteed the stable market price order in the capital and effectively safeguarded the interests of the people. Since January 23, 996 cases of price violations have been investigated and dealt with, with a total fine of more than 25 million yuan. Administrative penalties for 54 cases of price violations of bad nature and serious circumstances were imposed with fines of more than 100,000 yuan, and a top penalty of 3 million yuan was imposed in a case of coaxing the price of masks, and 12 typical cases were publicly exposed to the public.
Since the occurrence of the new epidemic epidemic, market supervision departments have focused on the enforcement of prices for vegetables and other daily necessities, and severely investigated and dealt with illegal behaviors such as hoarding, falsifying and disseminating price increases, and raising prices. A typical case has been exposed to society yesterday. On June 15, the Dongcheng District Market Supervision Bureau, based on clues from the masses, filed an investigation into the price violations of individual industrial and commercial household Guo Moumou located in Beijing Riyijingsheng Vegetable Market. After investigation, Guo Moumou increased the price of potatoes with a purchase price of 1.3 yuan/jin to 6 yuan/jin, and the price difference between the purchase and sales exceeded 3 times. During the epidemic situation, Guo Moumou sold at such a high price-to-sale spread, which pushed prices up too high and constituted an illegal act of driving up prices. The nature was bad and the plot was serious. The Dongcheng District Market Supervision Bureau imposed an administrative penalty of more than 100,000 yuan on Guo Moumou. At present, the case-related procedures are in progress.
In the next step, the city's market supervision department will pay close attention to the complaints, public opinion and social exposure of the masses, continue to increase price enforcement, prevent prices such as vegetables from rising too fast and excessively high, and effectively respond to the demands of the masses to win the battle against epidemic prevention and control. Kuang Xu hopes that the majority of operators strictly abide by laws and regulations, consciously perform their main responsibilities, operate with integrity and law, regulate price behavior, and maintain price stability. At the same time, consumers and all sectors of society are welcome to strengthen supervision. If any price violation is found, please call the hotline 12345 to report the complaint in time. We will stick to the people's response, respond immediately, and efficiently resolve the demands of the masses.