Recently, many netizens who love to listen to songs have found that there are more songs in the music app that they could not listen to in the past; consumers who love online shopping find that they can directly open Taobao links in WeChat, and entrepreneurs have begun to excitedly explore how to use the traffic opened by the Internet to find The next tuyere.
This is a big step for fair market competition, and it is also a concentrated manifestation of the effectiveness of my country’s anti-monopoly law enforcement. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country has made a series of major decisions and deployments focusing on anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition, strengthened anti-monopoly supervision, and prevented the disorderly expansion of capital with initial results, and the fair market competition order has been steadily improving.
Light up the “traffic lights” of fair competition
“At present, my country’s economy is transforming its development mode, optimizing economic structure, transforming growth momentum, and building A period of tackling a high-level socialist market economic system and building a high-standard market system.” Zhang Gong, director of the State Administration for Market Supervision, said that the scale of enterprises and the concentration of industries have been increasing, and the competition and cooperation of market forces and the degree of competition have undergone profound changes. The risk of disorderly competition and competition has become increasingly prominent.
In response to this change, “a more complete fair competition system” was written into the main goal of economic and social development during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period; the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to request Strengthen anti-monopoly and prevent disorderly expansion of capital; the Central Economic Work Conference clearly listed “strengthening anti-monopoly and preventing disorderly expansion of capital” as one of the eight key tasks in 2021.
This year, from the release of the Anti-Monopoly Guidelines of the Anti-Monopoly Commission of the State Council on the Platform Economy, to the ninth meeting of the Central Finance and Economics Commission’s request to promote a healthy and sustainable platform economy Development, until the 21st meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Deepening Reform passed the “Opinions on Strengthening Anti-monopoly and Deepening the Implementation of Fair Competition Policies”, and the state continues to release signals to further promote fair competition in the market and promote the healthy and sustainable development of economic norms.
In response to these signals, the state and relevant departments revised the Anti-Unfair Competition Law twice, promoted the promulgation of the Electronic Commerce Law, and accelerated the revision of the Anti-Monopoly Law. Formulate 9 regulations including the “Interim Regulations on Concentration of Business Operators” and accelerate the formulation of the “Regulations for the Implementation of the Consumer Rights Protection Law”. Basically, it is composed of multiple laws, regulations, rules and guidelines, covering online and offline, and increasingly complete systems. System of competition laws and regulations.
With the gradual improvement of the anti-monopoly legal system, the fair competitionFor the protection of the competition system, the “traffic light” of fair market competition has been lit.
No more chances for monopoly
Based on laws and regulations, regulatory authorities strengthen anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition supervision and enforcement in accordance with the law, and directly attack the development of market players The pain point is that a number of major and important cases have been handled to strengthen legal authority.
In recent years, we have severely investigated and dealt with illegal activities such as low-price dumping and price fraud in the community group buying field, and strengthened the supervision and enforcement of unfair competition behaviors such as false promotion and big data; Investigated and punished three cases of platform companies failing to declare operator concentration in accordance with the law, including Alibaba’s acquisition of the shares of Yintai Commercial, and the top punishment was 45 cases of platform companies failing to declare in accordance with the law and announced to the public, clearly releasing the policy signal that the Internet is not a place outside the anti-monopoly law, and promoting The platform economy has standardized, orderly, and innovative and healthy development.
In the field of people’s livelihood, my country has strengthened anti-monopoly law enforcement in the pharmaceutical field, continued to strengthen anti-monopoly law enforcement in public utilities, motor vehicle testing, second-hand vehicles, building materials and other fields, exposing a number of typical case.
According to data from the General Administration of Market Supervision, during the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, anti-monopoly law enforcement agencies investigated and dealt with 179 cases of market monopoly, with a fine of 2.76 billion yuan. 274 cases of abuse of administrative power to exclude or restrict competition were investigated and dealt with. 2147 cases of concentration of business operators were concluded, which effectively protected fair competition in the market.
Through law enforcement, improper interference in market competition has been corrected in accordance with the law, fair competition in the relevant market has been restored in a timely manner, and all market entities have realized that there is no chance for a monopoly.
Insisting on treating “effects” and “causes”
Anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition are not just “big sticks”, they can also reduce The institutional cost of the enterprise promotes the innovation and development of the enterprise.
Take the much-watched semiconductor industry as an example. During the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period, the anti-monopoly law enforcement agencies concluded 72 cases of concentration of undertakings, and approved 6 cases of operations in the semiconductor field including Broadcom’s acquisition of Brocade, NVIDIA’s acquisition of Meluosi, and Infineon’s acquisition of Cypress. Concentration of cases, allowing the industry to obtain more development opportunities while maintaining a competitive order.
At present, China’s business environment ranking has jumped to the 31st place in the world. There are still some challenges to go further. Zhang Gong said that to promote economic development at a higher level and achieve stability and far-reaching, it is urgent to strengthen the basic position of fair competition policies, pay more attention to following the general laws of market economy, and further stimulate the vitality of various market entities; pay more attention to legal thinking and strengthen fair competition Measures for the rule of law; pay more attention to strengthening supervision, focus on strengthening anti-monopoly, anti-unfair competition, and prevent disorderly expansion of capital; pay more attention to system coordination, promote better integration of effective markets and effective governments, build a high-standard market system, and promote high-quality development .
In the next step, we must adhere to both the “effects” and the “causes” of the governance. For the “effects” of monopoly, we must increase supervision and law enforcement in accordance with the law, and pay more attention to the governance at the source.” “Cause” and process control “cause”. Strive to build a market structure for effective and orderly competition. At the same time, we must adhere to both supervision and law enforcement and system construction. We must not only pay attention to the practice of anti-monopoly law enforcement, but also pay attention to building a long-term mechanism for maintaining fair competition.