State Council Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Committee Office responds to investigation of food delivery platform competition: evaluate monopoly risks, regulate market order.

Recently, the Office of the State Council Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Committee announced that they will conduct an investigation and evaluation of the market competition situation in the food delivery platform service industry based on the Anti-Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China. In response to this, relevant officials stated in response to questions from journalists that this investigation and evaluation is an important measure for the Committee to express its concerns about competition, assess monopoly risks, and regulate market order. The investigation will involve on-site verification, face-to-face interviews, questionnaire surveys, and other methods to gain a deeper understanding of the competitive behavior of food delivery platforms. Various opinions from platform operators, new employment groups, consumers, and others will be widely solicited to comprehensively investigate the market competition situation, conduct analysis and demonstrations, transmit regulatory pressure, and propose disposal measures. Food delivery platforms are expected to actively cooperate with the market investigation and evaluation work, strictly implement their responsibilities as compliant entities, effectively prevent and resolve monopoly risks, fairly participate in market competition, and promote innovation and healthy development in the food delivery platform service industry.