China Economic Net, Beijing, March 13 (reporter Tong mingbiao, Su LAN) “Small and medium-sized merchants do the most work and get the least money. Most of them are given to the platform, and consumers have no choice….. Fortunately, the national anti-monopoly crackdown. I still remember that on April 10 last year, the General Administration of market supervision punished Taobao for choosing one from the other, ordered Alibaba to stop abusing its dominant market position and imposed a fine of 18.228 billion yuan…” Ruogu, a consumer who works in an Internet company, talks about his feeling of benefiting from antitrust and is still clapping his hands like many consumers.
Professor Wang Jingbo, vice president of the University of international business and economics, said that the market supervision department has taken a series of strong measures to establish the authority of anti-monopoly law enforcement, guide enterprises to operate in accordance with the law, promote the standardized, orderly, innovative and healthy development of the platform economy, which has been warmly responded by public opinion and widely supported by the people.
The relevant person in charge of the General Administration of market supervision told reporters that in 2021, the General Administration of market supervision resolutely implemented the decision and deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on strengthening antitrust and preventing disorderly expansion of capital, coordinated development and safety, efficiency and fairness, vitality and order, China and the world, and coordinated supervision, law enforcement and system construction, We made overall plans for Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology Co.Ltd(300959) integrated supervision and equal treatment of various market entities, strengthened antitrust, further promoted the implementation of fair competition policies, and strengthened fair competition governance, achieving positive results.
listed by the state Anti Monopoly Bureau
further improve the legal system of fair competition policy
It is reported that the State Administration of market supervision has accelerated the revision of the anti-monopoly law and further improved the basic anti-monopoly legal system by focusing on the new requirements of high-quality development and the new characteristics of the digital economy. Promote the formulation of the opinions on strengthening antitrust and further promoting the implementation of fair competition policy, further improve the framework of fair competition policy, and build a fair competition policy implementation mechanism covering all links before, during and after the event. We formulated and issued the guidelines on antitrust in the field of platform economy, the guidelines on antitrust in the field of API and the guidelines on overseas antitrust compliance of enterprises, revised and issued the detailed rules for the implementation of the fair competition review system, further improved the institutional rules, improved the predictability and transparency of fair competition policies and antitrust legal systems, and basically established a system covering Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology Co.Ltd(300959) An increasingly systematic and complete legal system of fair competition.
further improve the efficiency of antitrust supervision and law enforcement
The relevant person in charge of the State Administration of market supervision said that in order to further improve the efficiency of monopoly law enforcement, the market supervision department insisted on paying equal attention to development and standardization, treating all kinds of market subjects equally, adhering to strict, standardized, fair and civilized law enforcement, and strengthening and improving the anti-monopoly supervision and law enforcement in key areas of people’s livelihood development, such as platforms, medicine, public utilities and building materials, 176 monopoly cases were investigated and dealt with, with fines and confiscations amounting to 23.586 billion yuan, so as to effectively maintain the market order of fair competition, protect the legitimate rights and interests of various market subjects, and safeguard the interests of consumers and the public interest.
\u3000\u3000 “Investigate and deal with the monopoly cases of ‘one out of two’ in the field of platform economy in accordance with the law, establish rules and make an example of others in the whole industry, and promote the sustained, standardized and healthy development of various entities. We have concluded 727 cases of business concentration, including 1 prohibition, 4 approval with restrictive conditions, 107 public penalties for failing to declare business concentration cases in accordance with the law, and timely prohibit head platform enterprises in the field of online game live broadcasting from damaging competition The merger and acquisition of the Internet music industry, which has been widely criticized, will be lifted in accordance with the law, so as to create a fair, efficient and orderly market competition environment. ” The relevant person in charge of the State Administration of market supervision further explained, strengthened administrative guidance and law enforcement information publicity, issued the annual report on China’s anti-monopoly law enforcement (2020) and ten typical cases of anti-monopoly, widely disseminated the concept of fair competition, and urged enterprises to consciously operate in accordance with the law.
further safeguard the national unified market
The State Administration of market supervision thoroughly implemented the fair competition review system, reviewed 244000 newly issued policy and measure documents, corrected and abolished 11200 documents that violated the review standards, and standardized administrative acts from the source.
Focusing on key areas such as government procurement, public resource trading, transportation and housing construction, 46 cases of abusing administrative power to eliminate and restrict competition, such as restricting trading and hindering the free circulation of goods, were investigated and dealt with, and more than 140 clues were verified, so as to resolutely safeguard China’s unified market and promote the smooth circulation of China.
BRICs competition agency heads sign the Chengdu joint statement
further deepen institutional opening-up in the field of competition
China economic net reporter learned that the State Administration of market supervision actively deepened the institutional opening-up in the field of competition. On November 16, 2021, the State Administration of market supervision successfully held the 7th BRICs international competition conference, promoted the competition agencies of the five BRICs countries to jointly sign the Chengdu joint statement, and issued a series of outcome documents such as the model temsector for BRICs countries to use confidentiality waiver in reviewing global mergers and acquisitions and the Research Report on BRICs automobile industry, Lay a solid foundation for better playing the role of BRICs countries in global economic governance. Signed intergovernmental cooperation agreements with Russia in the field of anti-monopoly law enforcement and competition policy, signed memorandums of understanding on anti-monopoly cooperation with competition agencies such as Pakistan, Singapore and the Eurasian Economic Commission, actively participated in discussions on competition issues such as the United Nations Trade Development Conference and the WTO, and promoted China’s cooperation with Norway, Israel Belarus and other multilateral and bilateral free trade agreements, negotiations on competition policy and antitrust issues, deepen institutional opening-up in the field of competition, and comprehensively serve high-level opening-up.
