Father and son reported to the shop owner after buying the "RMB bouquet"! Reported 49 times about "buying cucumbers"... Flower shop | RMB | Store owner
According to reports, a father and son in Zhuzhou, Hunan purchased a "RMB bouquet" worth 9999 yuan and complained the next day to the People's Bank of China Zhuzhou Central Branch, demanding punishment for the person in charge of the flower shop. According to relevant departments, the father and son have been involved in over 400 complaints nationwide, and are the parties involved in this year's online report of the restaurant's "cucumber shooting" incident.
The bank stated that the complainant consulted with the bank in May to inquire whether the "RMB bouquet" was illegal. After receiving a positive response, they stated that they would go to collect evidence. At present, the flower shop has taken down the relevant products as required. The local government department stated that protecting market entities and regulating them should be carried out in parallel, and the flower shops involved should be exempted from punishment for the first violation.
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According to relevant departments, the father and son were the parties involved in this year's online report of the restaurant's "cucumber shooting" incident. According to previous reports, a document released by the Zhuzhou Catering Industry Association in Hunan Province shows that multiple catering companies in the city have reported that a father and son surnamed Yan in the local area used the reason that the catering company did not have a cold dish certificate to sell "pickled cucumbers" and other cold dishes, and demanded high compensation from the catering company through frequent reporting. Since 2020, they have reported 49 times.
The flexible law enforcement of flower shop owners in Zhuzhou, where the first violation is exempted from punishment, has been praised by netizens. However, the suspected professional anti-counterfeiting behavior of the father and son has been questioned by netizens. Some netizens claimed that "even for profit, it has indeed played a role in promoting industry progress", while others said that "this is no different from extortion.".
Wang Peng, Deputy Researcher at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, stated that from the perspective of relevant regulatory authorities and laws and regulations, the renminbi, as the legal tender of China, is a symbol of national economic sovereignty and plays a very important role in the overall economic and social operation of China.
"Our country has formulated relevant laws and regulations, such as the Law of the People's Republic of China on the People's Bank of China and the Regulations on the Administration of the Renminbi of the People's Republic of China, which actually regulate how to protect the Renminbi and prevent its misuse. If the Renminbi is intentionally damaged or used as a commodity for circulation, it is strictly prohibited from a legal perspective. Therefore, in Wang Peng's view, it is reasonable for flower shops to be punished or criticized for selling Renminbi into flowers.".
Fu Jian, the director of Henan Zejin Law Firm, also believes that the use of RMB patterns on products by flower shops to convert RMB into bouquets for sale is considered as using RMB patterns on the products. According to Article 26 of the Regulations on the Administration of the Renminbi of the People's Republic of China, the following acts that harm the Renminbi are prohibited: intentional destruction of the Renminbi; Making, imitating, and trading RMB patterns; Without the approval of the People's Bank of China, use RMB graphics on promotional materials, publications, or other goods. Therefore, folding the Chinese yuan into bouquets may damage the yuan and hinder its circulation and use. The practices of flower shops violate relevant provisions of this law, but according to local policies and regulations, first-time violations can be exempted from punishment.
As for the incident, the father and son reported the illegal behavior of the merchant. Wang Peng believes that they have a strong sense of personal rights protection, and from the perspective of optimizing the business environment, they have indeed maintained market order and contributed to better economic and social development. "However, it is actually difficult to define the behavior of father and son to a certain extent. From another dimension, if this father and son use anti-counterfeiting and rights protection as a pretext to obtain so-called economic benefits, from a negative perspective, it will to some extent disrupt normal economic and social development."
Wang Peng said that some of the complained businesses chose to settle down and engage in private activities with them for the purpose of maintaining their image, ensuring normal business operations, and avoiding punishment. This could potentially lead to certain profit-making behaviors for the father and son. "Therefore, I think further investigation is needed. Firstly, there are over 400 related complaints against the father and son, some of which are truly illegal and irregular, some have caused economic benefits for the father and son, and some have disrupted normal market operations and caused adverse effects. This needs to be further defined before further analysis can be conducted."
Fu Jian believes that the behavior reported by father and son belongs to the normal exercise of consumer supervision rights. The regulation and order of the market not only rely on the law, but also on consumer supervision. Consumers actively report illegal activities, which is a behavior that is encouraged to actively abide by the law. However, combined with the previous crackdown on counterfeiting by father and son, if "cracking down on counterfeits" is taken as a normalized profession, and "fishing and cracking down on counterfeits", and even extortion from relevant businesses, it may have a negative impact on the market, waste public resources, disrupt public order, violate public security management regulations, and serious circumstances may be suspected of criminal offenses.
