During the epidemic prevention and control period, the punishment for conviction of price gouging and profiteering shall be administrative penalties imposed by the public security organs or industrial and commercial administrative departments in accordance with the law;

If a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law. , it can be determined that the behavior of driving up prices and seeking huge profits during the prevention and control period of the new coronavirus infection pneumonia epidemic constitutes the crime of illegal business operations.

Legal basis:

Article 225 of the "Criminal Law" Whoever violates national regulations and commits one of the following illegal business activities, disrupts market order, and if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to five years The following fixed-term imprisonment or criminal detention, and concurrently or solely a fine of not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income, shall be imposed; if the circumstances are particularly serious, the sentence shall be not less than five years of fixed-term imprisonment and concurrently fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income, or property confiscation:

(1) Operating special items or other restricted items as prescribed by laws and administrative regulations without permission;

(2) Buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export origins Certificates and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated in laws and administrative regulations;

(3) Illegal operations of securities, futures, and insurance businesses without approval from relevant national competent authorities, or illegal fund payment and settlement Business;

(4) Other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt market order.