During the Spring Festival holiday, festival consumption, tourism services and other markets are booming. In order to maintain the stability of market price order during the Spring Festival, the State Administration for Market Regulation deployed local market supervision departments to take multiple measures to strengthen price supervision in accommodation, catering, scenic spots, food, life services and other fields, making every effort to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the people and protect the "taste of the New Year" during the Spring Festival.
Market supervision departments at all levels strengthen price monitoring and early warning, pay close attention to price fluctuation trends; guide operators to reasonably set prices, and implement clearly marked prices in accordance with regulations; promptly organize and carry out price reminders and administrative interviews, and guide and urge operators to implement price commitments. Focusing on the key areas and areas of consumption during the Spring Festival holiday, we maintained a high-pressure stance against various price violations, seriously investigated and punished illegal activities such as failure to clearly mark prices in accordance with regulations, collusion in price increases, price fraud, and price gouging, and a number of typical cases were investigated and dealt with.
Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan have strengthened supervision on hotel accommodation prices. The market supervision department in Shantou, Guangdong established a supervision list of 392 accommodation operators, dispatched more than 700 law enforcement officers, and opened and investigated 10 cases of suspected price violations. The market supervision department in Beihai, Guangxi, carried out special price inspections on hotel accommodation, scenic spot tickets, tourism and sightseeing facilities and other travel-related industries, organized the signing of a letter of commitment to charge compliance operations, and guided operators to set reasonable prices. The Sichuan market supervision department issued a warning to hotels with large price increases, requiring them to actively fulfill their social responsibilities and consciously regulate price behavior. The market supervision department in Pu'er, Yunnan, launched an investigation into the hotel concerned and required it to immediately correct its illegal behavior.
Shandong has strengthened supervision on transportation price issues. The market supervision department in Linyi, Shandong Province organized a comprehensive inspection of price issues in the holiday car rental market, focusing on investigating and punishing price fraud and other illegal activities to effectively safeguard the interests of the masses. In view of the concentrated demand for car rentals during the Spring Festival, various localities focus on monitoring the price behavior of car rental platforms and rental companies. Urge airlines, train ticket sales platforms and sales agencies to fully disclose fares, service fees, handling fees and other charging standards, and are not allowed to charge any unmarked fees. Price fraud through false discounts, misleading pricing, etc. is strictly prohibited.
Hubei has strengthened supervision on the price of daily services. The market supervision department in Wuhan, Hubei Province launched an investigation into the issue of pet store price increases during the Spring Festival and ordered the parties involved to immediately correct their illegal behavior. Various localities focus on services such as hairdressing and manicure, car washing, housekeeping, pet cleaning, etc., and strengthen price dynamic monitoring and early warning to ensure the smooth operation of the holiday life service market.
Beijing has strengthened supervision over the issue of "vote grabbing artifacts". The Beijing market supervision department organized 12 mainstream platforms involved in the online sales of train tickets to hold administrative interviews. Platforms are required to strictly implement their main responsibilities and social responsibilities, comprehensively investigate business models, service processes and platform pages, remove products suspected of misleading propaganda, carefully mark prices, and effectively protect consumers' right to know. All localities continue to increase supervision and law enforcement, and severely crack down on illegal activities such as false ticket grabbing and induced transactions in accordance with the law.
Zhejiang and Guangdong have strengthened supervision on the issue of chaotic New Year goods such as corporate propaganda that is suspected of misleading consumers. The Zhejiang market supervision department will strictly inspect the suspected illegal activities of relevant enterprises in accordance with the law and deal with them expeditiously. The Guangdong market supervision department ordered 65 stores of the companies involved to remove relevant products from the shelves. All localities have further strengthened policy promotion and compliance guidance for relevant enterprises, urged the strict implementation of main responsibilities, and further standardized brand operations, advertising and dealer management.
Market supervision departments will strictly implement supervision responsibilities, effectively safeguard the order of fair competition in the market and the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, and strive to create a safe, secure, satisfying and comfortable holiday consumption environment.
Contributed by: Bureau of Price Supervision and Competition
