Three departments: Fabricating and spreading false information about price increases, manipulating prices, and causing unreasonably high prices for goods to rise.

The National Development and Reform Commission, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the Cyberspace Administration of China have issued the "Rules on Internet Platform Pricing Behavior". The Rules stipulate that platform operators and operators within the platform shall not violate Article 14, paragraph 3 of the Price Law of the People's Republic of China, using the following means to fabricate and disseminate price increase information, drive up prices, and push commodity prices unreasonably high: fabricating and disseminating information about tight supply or surging market demand; fabricating and disseminating information that other operators have raised or are planning to raise prices; disseminating information with deceptive or misleading language to inflate price expectations; failing to sell goods to the public in a timely manner without valid reasons, hoarding large quantities of goods beyond normal storage levels or duration, causing market supply shortages and abnormal price fluctuations, continuing to hoard goods despite warnings; obligatorily bundling sales of goods to substantially increase prices; using other means to drive up prices and push commodity prices up rapidly and excessively.