The recent increase in the price of potatoes from $1. 4 to $0. 3 million in sales from $1. 4 per pound to $0. 3 million was a cause for concern。
According to the daily newspaper, on 20 august, during an inspection conducted by the market supervision authority of the city of qing, law enforcement officials found that there was a violation of the law on the lifting of prices by wang three potatoes in the town. It was found that the operating unit had a premium of $1. 2 per pound for potatoes, which increased from $1. 4 per pound to $2 per pound, with a maximum margin of 66. 66 per cent. According to law enforcement officials, using the size of its operations, wang's three potato department, using the epidemic as a means of raising prices, seriously disrupts the business order in the market and, in aggravating circumstances, imposes a fine of $300,000 on the operator for the offence。
In addition, the chongqing city market supervisory authority has published a number of cases in which prices were lifted, all of which ranged from $10,000 to $30,000 for daily vegetables exceeding the maximum price differential. Specifically:
1. The price of cucumbers sold in an onion shop in salto, gyeong city, is $3. 5/kg at $4. 58/kg at an increase rate of 30. 9 per cent; the price of onion is 3. 5/kg at a price of $4. 58/kg at an increase rate of 30. 9 per cent; the price of onion is 1. 2/kg at a price of $1. 58/kg at a price of 31. 7 per cent; the price of potatoes is 2. 2/kg at a price of $2. 88/kg at an increase rate of 30. 9 per cent; and the price of onion is 3. 8/kg at $4. 99/kg at an increase of 31. 3 per cent。
2. A price of 2. 07 yuan per pound for the eggplant sold at the saartoo supermarket in saltu city, 2. 98 yuan per pound, representing an increase of 43. 9 per cent; and a price of 1. 45 yuan per pound for potatoes, representing an average of 1. 98 yuan per pound, representing a 36. 5 per cent increase, is to be punished by a fine of 20,000 yuan。
3. The purchase price of cucumbers sold in the new district of qinghongqing was $5/kg, at $7. 98/kg, and the increase rate was 59. 6 per cent; the price of celery was $4/kg, at $6. 98/kg, and the increase rate was 74. 5 per cent, with a penalty of $20,000。
4. A price of $2. 98 per pound for cabbage sold at the neighborhood life supermarket in qinghongqing, with an increase of 49 per cent; a price of $3. 98 per pound for eggplant, with a 66 per cent increase, with a fine of $20,000。
5. The value of the soybeans sold at the sunyang mall in the long feng zhou district of the city of qingqing city is 5. 5 yuan/kg. The price is 8. 98 yuan/kg。
The city of chongqing has given a price of 2 yuan per pound for potatoes sold at the supermarket of the hullu district and 3 yuan per pound for potatoes, a 50 per cent increase and a fine of 0. 5 million dollars。
7. The city of chongqing has ordered a price of 1. 3 yuan per pound for potatoes sold at the festivities of the hulu district, at a price of 1. 88 yuan per pound and an increase of 44. 6 per cent, to be punished by 10,000 yuan。
8. The city of chongqing has given the wall street region a bid of $1. 34 per pound for a pick-up price of $1. 98 per pound, representing an increase of 47. 76 per cent; $4. 98 per pound, representing an increase of 46. 47 per cent; $3. 65 per pound, representing an increase of 36. 44 per cent; and $3. 7 per pound, representing a price of $4. 98 per pound, representing an increase of 34. 59 per cent。
Chongqing market regulatory authority response: the punishment is reasonable
On 31 august, a reporter from the shandong commercial news network contacted the city market supervisory authority of daiqing city and stated that, in response to the fine, “he is a wholesaler who, according to a judicial announcement issued by the heilongjiang provincial command for the response to new crown virus infections, guarantees the general stability of market prices during the period of the new coronary virus infection, severely combats price hikes and ensures market order. The proclamation requires that the market authorities at all levels with a difference of more than 30 per cent in purchase and sale should act in accordance with the law and impose strict and expeditious penalties in accordance with the law.”
In addition, the staff member indicated that article 6 of the administrative penalties for price offences under article 40, paragraph 1, of the price law of the people's republic of china provides for one of the following acts which promote excessive and excessive increases in the prices of goods: one of the following acts is to be ordered to correct, confiscate the proceeds of the offence and impose a fine not exceeding five times the proceeds of the offence; if the proceeds have not been confiscated, the penalty shall be a fine not less than 50,000 and not more than 500,000 yuan, and in serious cases between 500,000 and 3 million yuan。
“punishment is reasonable and an important basis for guaranteeing the livelihood of the population. When prices are contained in the early stages of the epidemic, people can buy food cheaply, and do not go from the source to the middle to the back?” the staff member responded。
