The reporter learned from the press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic held in Shanghai on the 26th that Peng Wenhao, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision, said that recently, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision, in accordance with the overall deployment of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government to ensure supply and stabilize prices, Strengthen the price supervision of important livelihood commodities and anti-epidemic supplies, and maintain market price order by using administrative guidance, interview warnings, commitment to rectification, administrative penalties and other supervision methods. Specifically, do the following three aspects:
The first is to dynamically adjust the focus of supervision according to changes in the sealed and controlled areas.Since March 11, documents have been issued continuously, requiring the market supervision departments of all districts in Shanghai to dynamically adjust the key areas, key objects and key contents of supervision according to changes in the closure and control management areas and market price fluctuations. Take agricultural product wholesale markets, surrounding vegetable farms in closed communities, and temporary vegetable sales points as key areas, take online operators as key targets, and increase price inspections, policy publicity, and reminders. As of March 25, Shanghai has dispatched 15,284 price enforcement officers, inspected 24,418 related units, and issued 19,292 warning letters. We have urged rectification of problems such as non-standardized clearly marked prices by operators during the inspection.
The second is to strengthen the linkage between departments and work together to protect the “vegetable basket”.Establish a working mechanism for ensuring supply and stabilizing prices. On the one hand, share price monitoring information, supply guarantee information and supervision information; Market supervision bureaus in various districts also took the initiative to strengthen communication with relevant departments and communities in towns and cities. For example, district bureaus such as Xuhui, Putuo, Pudong, Minhang, Songjiang and Fengxian have set up special classes for ensuring supply and stabilizing prices to ensure the stable supply and price of basic living materials for residents.
The third is to issue the “Guiding Opinions” to resolutely crack down on price gouging.Yesterday, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision and the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the “Guiding Opinions on Determining Illegal Behaviors of Price Gouging During the Epidemic Prevention and Control Period”, which clarified the basic livelihood commodities such as grain, oil, meat, eggs, vegetables and milk, masks, masks, etc. Anti-virus drugs and other anti-epidemic supplies are the scope of adjustment in the guidance. At the same time, the opinion also clarifies the standards for the determination of price-raising behavior, and uses the daily price difference between the same product or similar products as a comparison benchmark, and clearly stipulates the difference between sales and purchases of commodities sold by operators. The rate shall not exceed the highest price difference between the same product or similar products during the period from March 13 to 19. If it exceeds, it can be determined to constitute an illegal price gouging following verification. Once constituted, the Shanghai Municipal Supervision Department will, in accordance with the “Regulations on Administrative Penalties for Violations of Pricing”, order market entities to make rectifications, confiscate illegal gains, and impose a fine of less than 5 times the illegal gains; for those without illegal gains, a maximum of 3 million yuan can be imposed. fine. If the circumstances are particularly serious, the Shanghai Municipal Supervision Department will order it to suspend business for rectification until its business license is revoked.
In the next step, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision will further strengthen departmental consultations and linkages, continue to carry out daily price inspections and reminders, deal with reports and complaints in a timely manner, properly respond to social concerns, severely crack down on illegal acts such as price gouging, and effectively maintain market price order. . (Headquarters reporter Wang Dianjia Yang Jingcheng Yilin)
