Pinyin: tóu jιdγo bγ

Refers to the use of opportunities to disrupt the market, through hoarding, short selling, adulteration, price manipulation and other means to make huge profits.

The crime of speculation refers to a serious act that violates the laws and regulations on finance, foreign exchange, gold and silver, materials and industrial and commercial management, illegally engages in industrial and commercial activities, disrupts the national financial and market management, and undermines the socialist economic order. Generally speaking, someone buys at a low price in place A and at a high price in place B. This is speculation.

See: Provisional Regulations on Administrative Punishment for Speculation.

1997 after the criminal law amendment abolished the crime of "profiteering", the word "profiteering" with strong planned economy color has faded out of history.