The General Administration of Market Regulation announces the top ten achievements in the comprehensive rectification of "inwardly-focused" competition system construction by 2025.

On the morning of January 9th, the State Administration for Market Regulation held a special press conference on the achievements of the ten major institutional construction results for the comprehensive rectification of "zero-sum" competition by 2025. Zhao Chunlei, the deputy director of the Competition Coordination Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation, introduced that over the past year, the State Administration for Market Regulation has formulated and issued a series of targeted and operationally strong institutional standards, systematically constructed a comprehensive and orderly set of rules, focused on improving long-term governance mechanisms, and guided enterprises to shift from homogeneous and inefficient competition to high-quality and high-level competition. The first is the new "Anti-Unfair Competition Law." It further improves the identification rules for commercial defamation behavior, includes typical "zero-sum" vicious competition behaviors such as platform operators forcing platform sellers to sell goods at prices below cost or abusing platform rules to conduct false transactions within the regulatory scope, providing a favorable basis for the comprehensive rectification of "zero-sum" competition. The second is the "Measures for the Implementation of the System for Mandatory Cancellation of Company Registration." By standardizing the procedures for compulsory cancellation of company registration, orderly clearing out discredited entities, and facilitating the market exit channel, the quality and efficiency of market exits have been effectively improved, promoting the enhancement of the quality of business entities' development. The third is the "Measures for the Implementation of the Regulation on Fair Competition Review." Supervising and guiding various regions and departments to fulfill the responsibility of fair competition review for policies and measures involving industrial development, attracting investment, government procurement, bidding and tendering, etc., to prevent the violation of market fairness competition through the improper introduction of policies and measures. The fourth is the "Draft Guidelines for Anti-Monopoly Compliance on Internet Platforms." Supporting and guiding platform companies to strengthen anti-monopoly compliance management, providing clear warnings about new monopoly risks, empowering platform companies to better identify and prevent monopoly risks, protecting market fairness competition, promoting innovation and healthy development of platform companies. The fifth is the "Guiding Opinions on Improving the Quality of Products and Services on Online Trading Platforms." Focusing on product innovation and service standardization, strengthening the main responsibilities of platforms and operators, optimizing rights protection services, making people feel more secure in their shopping, and promoting the transformation of relevant industries from "zero-sum competition" to "quality improvement." The sixth is the "Basic Requirements for Service Management of Food Delivery Platforms." Stipulating the overall requirements for the service management of food delivery platforms, including merchant management, pricing behavior, rights protection for delivery personnel, protection of consumer rights, as well as requirements for complaints, appeals, and resolutions to improve service quality and reduce disorderly competition. The seventh is the "Regulations on Supervision and Management of Quality and Safety of Key Industrial Products Sold Online." Clarifying the quality and safety responsibilities and obligations of e-commerce operators of key industrial products, institutionalizing mature quality control measures for e-commerce platforms, filling the gap in the regulation of quality and safety of online industrial products, better ensuring the quality and safety of key industrial products, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. The eighth is the "Action Plan for the Enhancement of Standards for New Energy Vehicles, Lithium Batteries, and Photovoltaic Industries." Deploying 167 national standards research projects in the "new three sample" fields, focusing on quality and safety, energy efficiency, and classification standards research, promoting governance of "new three samples" zero-sum competition, and promoting high-quality development in related industries. The ninth is the "Several Measures for Steadily Expanding the Openness of Standard System." Strengthening the construction of standard systems in key areas of the business environment, improving the consistency of domestic and foreign standards in key service areas, promoting the formulation of international standards in the digital economy field, and focusing on improving the level of standardization for external opening. The tenth is the "Announcement on Further Promoting the 'Same Line, Same Standard, Same Quality' Work of Domestic and Foreign Trade Products." Advocating for the reasonable completion of the recognition of "same line, same standard, same quality" products by all parties, especially through continuous advancement of domestic and foreign certification integration, opening up diverse channels for domestic and foreign trade, reducing low-quality "zero-sum" competition, and assisting enterprises in high-quality development. The above text is a selection from the "Market Speak" WeChat public account; GMTEight editor: Chen Xiaoyi.