State Administration for Market Regulation: Further improve the system of centralized entrustment for review by operators.

The State Administration for Market Regulation has issued a notice on further improving the system of entrusting examination of operators' concentration. According to the needs of the work, the State Administration for Market Regulation may entrust the market supervision departments of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Chongqing, and Shaanxi provinces that meet the following criteria to examine non-simple cases: 1. The total market share of the operators participating in the concentration in the same relevant market is between 15% and 25%; 2. In the upstream and downstream markets, the market share of the operators participating in the concentration is between 25% and 35%; 3. Operators participating in the concentration that are not in the same relevant market and do not have an upstream or downstream relationship have a market share of 25% to 35% in each market related to the transaction.