Zhongxin Finance, April 9th. On the 9th, the official website of the Guangzhou Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau issued a warning on severely cracking down on price-gouging, hoarding and other illegal activities.

　　In order to further do a good job in the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and ensure that the prices of medical supplies, medicines, meat, poultry, eggs, vegetables, grain and oil, and other important livelihood commodities closely related to people's lives are stable, the Guangzhou Municipal Market Supervision Bureau will investigate and deal with it in accordance with the law. Price-gouging, hoarding and other price violations, maintain market price order, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.

The following warnings are issued:

　　1. Operators must strictly abide by the principles of fair, legal, honest and credit pricing, provide consumers with reasonably priced goods and services, and strictly mark the prices clearly.

It is strictly forbidden for operators to drive up prices, hoard, forcibly tie-in sales, fabricate and spread price increase information, and push commodity prices to rise too high; it is strictly forbidden to collude with each other to manipulate market prices; it is strictly forbidden to use false or misleading price methods to deceive consumers or Other operators conduct transactions with it; it is strictly prohibited to violate the regulations on clearly marked prices and other violations of price laws and regulations.

　　2. From the date of the issuance of this warning, if any operators are found to have committed the above-mentioned illegal acts, they will be subject to the "Price Law of the People's Republic of China", "Administrative Penalty Regulations for Price Violations", "Guangdong Province Implementing the "Price Law of the People's Republic of China", etc. Laws and regulations shall be strictly investigated and dealt with in accordance with the law.

　　3. The general public is requested to actively supervise and report the above-mentioned illegal acts by calling the 12315 and 12345 hotlines in time.

(Finish)