Ministry of Commerce and 8 other departments: Promote platform operators to legally open algorithm necessary data to regulatory authorities, promote fair and transparent algorithm recommendations and traffic distribution.

The Ministry of Commerce and other 9 departments issued opinions on accelerating the innovation and development of the retail industry. It mentioned promoting fair competition. Implementing the "Anti-Unfair Competition Law of the People's Republic of China," treating online and offline retail equally. Promoting platform operators to follow the principles of legality, fairness, and integrity in reasonable charges, reducing the costs of operators on the platform. Strengthening the concentration of anti-monopoly reviews in the platform sector, maintaining a fair competition order. Promoting platform operators to open algorithm necessary data to regulatory authorities in accordance with the law, promoting fair and transparent algorithm recommendation and traffic distribution. Promoting platform operators to establish a diversified algorithm recommendation index system, not only using product prices as the core parameters of algorithm recommendation. Encouraging the same brand and same quality of goods to have the same standards online and offline.