"The ministry will keep a close eye on price fluctuations of commodities, especially COVID-19-related medical products and necessities, and will clamp down on hoarding and price-gouging behaviors," he added.

Regulators will also monitor the prices of COVID-19-related medical products and necessities, and clamp down on hoarding and price gouging, he added.

The city has also taken measures to prevent the illegal flow of consumer loans and business loans into the real estate market to clamp down on excessive market speculation.

Yan from E-house said: "It is noteworthy to mention that the new regulations are not to simply clamp down on developers, but to better regulate and help the developers.

Experts voice concern over reported attempt to clamp export limits on ChinaWashington's reported move to clamp chip export limits on China by securing deals with the Netherlands and Japan will undermine the stability and security of the global semiconductor industrial supply chain, and hurt the interests of chip companies from all over the world, officials and experts said.

Companies are seeking to bulk up for the investments required in the shift to electric vehicles, as authorities worldwide clamp down on CO2 pollution.

- US efforts to clamp down on popular short video-sharing app TikTok are an "egregious" example of unfair economic competition for US dominance in the international information space, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Saturday.

The meeting emphasized that it is crucial to manage market expectations, reiterating a determination to clamp down on all market manipulation behaviors.

On May 18, three financial industry associations in China jointly issued a statement seeking a ban on the involvement of financial and payment institutions in the cryptocurrency business and highlighted the potential risks in an effort to clamp down on speculative trading and price volatility.

The three financial industry associations issued a statement that bans financial and payment institutions from involvement in the cryptocurrency business, in the latest effort to clamp down on speculative trading and price volatility.

The China Insurance Regulatory Commission took control of Anbang in February 2018 to clamp down on financial risk.

According to the report, Tao Ling, deputy head of the financial stability bureau at PBOC, said the new rules for China's asset management sector were never meant to clamp down on shadow banking or forbid investing in nonstandard credit assets.

The central government plans to maintain "pressing posture of severe attack" to clamp down on activities violating laws and regulations in internet finance, extending the ongoing nationwide crackdown for another year, Pan Gongsheng, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, the central bank, said during a meeting on Monday.

The CIRC vowed to clamp down on illegal financing and equity investment by insurers, irrational mergers and acquisitions, speculative trading of stocks, radical investment in real estate through highly-leveraged and structured financial products as well as illegal overseas investment.