There is no longer a crime of speculation in our country. The crime of speculation has been replaced by a series of crimes that disrupt the market economy. Some of these crimes can be punishable by death, such as smuggling, production and sales of counterfeit drugs. wait.

1. Categories of speculation:

1. Private traders wholesale and long-distance trafficking;

2. Opening underground factories and shops, lending money at usury, Exploitation by hiring and contracting labor;

3. Black market brokerage, short-selling, buying and selling, profiteering, and dividing the spoils;

4. Organizing speculative groups, colluding with internal and external parties, smuggling and bribery, and stealing and selling national assets;

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5. Hoarding and driving up prices;

6. Speculation and reselling of farm animals;

7. Speculation and reselling of industrial products purchased and distributed by the state and planned distribution;< /p>

8. Counterfeiting or reselling tickets, selling gold, silver, and foreign currencies. The document also limits the distance and zoning of "long-distance trafficking", that is, beyond the scope of cities (including suburbs, excluding cities and counties), counties, or beyond the scope between cities and counties, or between counties and adjacent areas of counties.

2. Interim Regulations on Administrative Penalties for Speculation

1. Reselling materials or items that are prohibited or restricted from free trade by the state;

2. Selling goods from retail stores or other Purchasing in-demand commodities through channels and reselling them at increased prices on the spot;

3. Reselling invoices for national planned supply materials, reselling invoices, approval documents, permits, licenses, delivery vouchers, and securities;

< p>4. Reselling cultural relics, gold and silver (including gold and silver products), and foreign exchange;

5. Reselling economic contracts, using economic contracts or other means to defraud buyers and sellers;

6. Manufacturing and promoting counterfeit goods, counterfeit goods, inferior goods, harming consumers, or adulteration, or cutting corners in serious cases;

7. Manufacturing, selling, and disseminating illegal publications (including audio and video recordings) products) and obtain illegal profits;

8. Providing sources of goods, checks, cash, bank accounts and other convenient conditions for speculative activities, or issuing certificates, invoices, and signing contracts on behalf of others;

9. Using reimbursement vouchers to commit fraud and engage in improper operations;

10. Monopolizing supply, bullying, driving up prices, and disrupting the market;

11. Others disrupting socialism Speculative behavior that undermines the economic order.

3. The purpose of defining speculation

1. Acts such as "loan sharking", "smuggling and bribery", "stealing and selling national assets", "hoarding", etc., no matter what they are called Speculation, whether it is bad or not, should be cracked down on.

2. Although the scale of ticket reselling, system reselling, procurement and planned supply of materials is not very large, it is easily amplified in the context of the unified planned economy.

3. Industry and commerce that breaks away from the "official-run" order, such as "long-distance trafficking", "underground factories and shops", and "unlicensed traders", are not necessarily speculative in themselves, but they are all regarded as production. A hotbed of speculation.

Legal basis:

"Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China"

Article 141 Whoever produces and sells counterfeit drugs shall be punished with a three-year fine A fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than 10 years, and a fine; if it causes serious harm to human health or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than 10 years, and shall also be fined; if it causes death or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than ten years and a fine; shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years, life imprisonment, or death, and shall also be fined or have property confiscated.

Counterfeit drugs as mentioned in this article refer to drugs and non-drugs that are counterfeit drugs and treated as counterfeit drugs in accordance with the provisions of the Drug Administration Law of the People's Republic of China.