Guangxi Baise Municipal Market Supervision Administration issued a notice on February 7, in order to standardize the market price order during the epidemic prevention and control in 2022, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, promote operators and relevant units to strictly abide by the price laws, regulations and policies, and prevent all kinds of price violations, we hereby remind all operators and relevant units in the city as follows:
1. All business operators and relevant units should strictly abide by the price laws, regulations and policies such as People’s Republic of China (PRC) Price Law, Provisions on Clearly Marking Goods and Services and Provisions on Prohibiting Price Fraud, consciously enhance their sense of social responsibility, and conscientiously implement price self-discipline.
2. All operators and relevant units should follow the pricing principles of fairness, legality, honesty and credit, and provide consumers with goods and services with qualified quality and reasonable price.
3, the operators and relevant units should seriously regulate the commodity pricing behavior, so that the price tag, and publicity in a prominent position; It is forbidden to collude with each other, manipulate market prices, hoard, drive up prices, and spread rumors of price increases to seek illegal interests.
4. Operators of shopping malls, supermarkets, farmers’ markets and e-commerce platforms shall fulfill their price commitments and shall not raise prices at will; It is not allowed to mislead consumers into trading by misleading pricing methods such as fictitious original price and false discount.
5. Oil and natural gas operators (gas stations and liquefied natural gas stores) should actively organize the supply of goods to ensure market supply, and must not abuse their dominant market position to drive up prices and disrupt the price order of oil and natural gas markets.
6. Medical institutions and pharmaceutical trading enterprises should publicize the charges and clearly mark the prices according to the regulations, publicize the charging standards of medical services and drug prices in a conspicuous position, and shall not arbitrarily raise prices or charge fees in violation of regulations.
All operators and relevant units should attach great importance to it and comprehensively rectify their own irregular price behaviors. Those who have not been rectified after being warned will be severely punished according to law, and typical cases will be publicly exposed through the news media. Consumers and all sectors of society are welcome to supervise the price behaviors of relevant operators and units. If price violations are found, please keep relevant evidence and call the consumer complaint telephone number 12315 or 12345 to make a complaint and report in time. (Headquarters reporter Liao Wei, Liu Chang, Ryson Ho)