Ministry of Commerce and 5 other departments: Guiding e-commerce platforms to standardize and optimize the charging behavior of operators on the platform, encouraging e-commerce platforms to reasonably reduce or exempt fees for new small and micro enterprises and individual businesses entering the platform.

The Ministry of Commerce and five other departments have issued guiding opinions on better serving the real economy and promoting the high-quality development of e-commerce. Among them, they mention the consolidation of platform responsibilities, promoting win-win development for e-commerce platforms, platform operators, and workers. The guidance encourages e-commerce platforms to improve their publicly transparent rule system, supervise platform operators who meet the conditions to handle business entity registration according to the law, and establish mechanisms for intellectual property protection and regular communication with workers. It guides e-commerce platforms to standardize and optimize their charging behaviors towards platform operators, encourages platforms to reasonably reduce fees for newly established small and micro enterprises and individual businesses. It promotes e-commerce platforms to establish a sound mechanism for the appeal and relief of rights violations of small and medium-sized businesses. It urges e-commerce platforms to fulfill their security responsibilities, and to fulfill their obligations to protect network and important data security in accordance with the law and regulations.