Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission has issued the Implementing Opinions on Promoting Random Inspection in the Course of Price Supervision to Regulate In-process and Ex Post Supervision (the "Opinions").
The Opinions say that more than 70% of price-related inspections will be made randomly by randomly-selected inspectors by 2016 and from 2017 and afterwards, we will strive to enable all such inspections to be carried out at random by inspector randomly selected, unless it is necessary to make inspections with full coverage. According to the requirements in the Opinions, we shall specify the list of matters to be randomly examined, establish the "double list for random inspection" step by step, build up the inspection mechanism under which inspection objects are selected at random and examined by law enforcement officers randomly selected, and determine the inspection proportion and frequency in a reasonable way. The Opinions also require that we shall make a list of operators under the price supervision for such industries and sectors as the finance, medicine, medical service, real estate and tourism etc. by 2017, and also improve the price credit system for operators, record all information concerning the compliance or breach of price-related laws of operators randomly inspected into the database and publish it to the society.