行政处罚是一项严肃的国家行政职能行为,关系到广大公民、法人和其他组织的切身利益,关系到政府的形象。因此,行政处罚不能想怎么罚就怎么罚。为了克服实践中行政处罚的随意性,行政处罚法对行政处罚的种类和程序作了明确规定。 Administrative punishment is a serious act of state administrative functions and concerns the vital interests of citizens, legal persons and other organizations and concerns the image of the government. Therefore, the administrative penalty can not think how to punish how to punish. In order to overcome the arbitrariness of administrative punishments in practice, the Administrative Punishment Law clearly stipulates the types and procedures of administrative punishments.