Economic Daily commentator Jing Guanping: "Industry associations and chambers of commerce can play a significant role in combating the internal competition."

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23/04/2026
As a bridge connecting government, market, and enterprises, industry associations and chambers of commerce should play a greater role in combating "inward competition". Resisting "inward competition" also requires industry associations and chambers of commerce to continuously expand their service functions and promote the long-term healthy development of the industry. Being a guide and injecting momentum into enterprise development. "Anti-inward competition" means returning competition from price-based internal consumption to quality improvement and value creation, which is precisely the key area where industry associations and chambers of commerce can play a full role. Industry associations and chambers of commerce should promote member units to increase research and development investment, optimize product supply; advocate the concept of high quality at a fair price, eliminate the mistaken belief that "low price is an advantage", and guide companies to establish long-term thinking. By setting quality benchmarks and promoting high-quality brands, high-quality products can obtain a reasonable premium, while inferior low-priced products gradually lose market space, promoting the industry to form a virtuous ecology of "winning with quality, standing with credibility". Practice has shown that industry associations and chambers of commerce are important coordinating forces to correct market failures. They should play their own role well and promote more efficient resource allocation and orderly market operation. On the one hand, they can lead in setting industry minimum quality standards and reasonable cost references, clarify the bottom line for industry access, prevent companies from sacrificing quality to occupy orders and disrupt market order; on the other hand, they can build a public information platform to release real-time supply and demand data, price fluctuations and other information, providing precise references for enterprise production and operation, and reducing the vicious competition caused by blind expansion. In addition, organizing industry exchanges and supply-demand matchmaking activities can promote differentiated layouts and collaborative development of enterprises.
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