The Supreme People's Procuratorate responds to difficulties in community group buying rights protection: the fundamental reason is that platforms evade their own responsibilities.

On February 9th, the Supreme People's Procuratorate held a press conference on "Promoting the Oversight of Public Interest Litigation in the Field of Food and Drug Safety". It was pointed out at the conference that the fundamental reason why community group-buying platforms have difficulty controlling the quality of fresh food consumed and consumers have nowhere to complain is that platform companies, as the leading actors and actual controllers in the food sales chain, evade their civil legal responsibilities through standardized contract terms. They transfer the contractual obligations and legal responsibilities of the sellers to offline suppliers, with whom consumers have no real trading relationship, leading to difficulties in consumer rights protection. In response, the Supreme Procuratorate held a public hearing, accurately grasping the substantive civil legal relationship between platform companies and consumers based on the Civil Code, guiding procuratorates in Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Beijing, and other places to successively file 93 cases of civil public interest litigation against relevant platform companies and issue 89 announcements, advocating for platform companies to legally amend illegal terms in their standardized contracts. This has effectively addressed the food safety issues in community group-buying, protected consumer rights and interests lawfully, and provided a successful practice example for the standardization and legalization of platform consumer order.