The Market Supervision Administration deploys to carry out the work of stabilizing prices and ensuring quality of important daily necessities during the New Year's Day and Spring Festival period.

Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued a notice, deploying the work of stabilizing prices and ensuring quality of important livelihood goods and services during the "two festivals" period. The notice requires to enhance the monitoring of prices of important livelihood goods, continue to pay attention to the price fluctuations of daily necessities such as rice, flour, oil, meat, eggs, dairy products, fruits, and vegetables. It emphasizes on monitoring the prices of goods and services such as New Year's Eve dinner reservations, high-end tobacco and alcohol products, cultural and entertainment services, and strengthens the price supervision of catering, accommodation, tourist attractions, and other related industries. It also strengthens the monitoring and early warning of prices of medicines, coal, natural gas during low temperature rain, snow, and freezing disasters, and increases the supervision of air and railway passenger transport prices and parking fees. It emphasizes on the enforcement of price supervision laws, conducts market price inspections, and focuses on punishing price violations such as failure to clearly display prices, price fraud, and failure to comply with government pricing guidelines. The original text is as follows: The State Administration for Market Regulation deploys the work of stabilizing prices and ensuring quality of important livelihood goods and services during New Year's Day and Spring Festival As the New Year's Day and Spring Festival of 2026 are approaching, important livelihood goods are entering the traditional peak consumption season. In order to fully protect the people's enjoyment of a happy and peaceful new year, the State Administration for Market Regulation recently issued a notice, deploying the work of stabilizing prices and ensuring quality of important livelihood goods and services during the "two festivals" period. The notice requires to enhance the monitoring of prices of important livelihood goods, and to continue to pay attention to the price fluctuations of daily necessities such as rice, flour, oil, meat, eggs, dairy products, fruits, and vegetables. It focuses on monitoring prices of goods and services such as New Year's Eve dinner reservations, high-end tobacco and alcohol products, cultural and entertainment services, and strengthens the price supervision of catering, accommodation, tourist attractions, and other related industries. It also strengthens the monitoring and early warning of prices of medicines, coal, natural gas during low temperature rain, snow, and freezing disasters, and increases the oversight of air and railway passenger transport prices and parking fees. It also enforces price supervision laws, conducts market price inspections, and focuses on punishing price violations such as failure to clearly display prices, price fraud, and failure to comply with government pricing guidelines. It urges online trading platforms to implement compliance management responsibilities. The notice emphasizes on increasing the supervision and inspection of food producers and sellers, and cracking down on illegal activities such as counterfeiting, adulteration, false advertising, and strengthening food safety and market sales quality supervision in catering services. It also emphasizes on strengthening oversight and inspection of key areas, key varieties, and key objects during New Year's Day and Spring Festival, and intensifying the special sampling inspections of bulk foods such as rice, flour, oil, meat, eggs, dairy products, fruits, and vegetables, as well as festival hot-selling foods, and promptly publishing the results of supervision and sampling inspections. The notice requires to focus on building insulation materials, safety nets, safety helmets, and other key special labor protection supplies, fire products, and other key industrial products, and continue to carry out inspections and rectification of quality and safety hazards. It also emphasizes on strengthening the production and sales quality and safety supervision of key consumer goods such as gas appliances, electric bicycles, children's products, power banks, winter heating products, cashmere sweaters, down jackets, fireworks, firecrackers, etc., and increasing the supervision and daily inspection efforts. It focuses on areas with production and sales enterprises, wholesale markets, rural areas, etc., and strengthens the supervision and inspection on food-related products such as disposable plastic tableware and conducts risk monitoring.