(Economic Observation) The National Anti-Monopoly Bureau officially listed China's anti-monopoly to a new level
China News Service, Beijing, November 18
Author Liu Liang Liu Wenwen
The National Anti-Monopoly Bureau was officially listed on the 18th.
Several authoritative experts said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that in the context of China’s current anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition increasingly receiving widespread attention, the establishment of the State Anti-Monopoly Bureau has far-reaching significance and is a step forward in China’s anti-monopoly enforcement system. An important sign of a new step.
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Why set up a "National Anti-Monopoly Bureau"?
According to official data, after the institutional reform of the State Council of China in 2018, the anti-monopoly law enforcement work originally undertaken by the Ministry of Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce was unified. The Anti-monopoly Bureau of the State Administration for Market The monopoly law enforcement agency also undertakes the daily work of the Anti-Monopoly Committee of the State Council.
Zhang Chenying, a member of the Expert Advisory Group of the State Council’s Anti-Monopoly Committee and Director of the Competition Law Research Center of Tsinghua University Law School, said that the establishment and listing of the National Anti-Monopoly Bureau is another major move after the institutional reform of the State Council in 2018 and the unification of anti-monopoly law enforcement. The system and mechanism of China's anti-monopoly law enforcement have been further improved, and the uniformity and authority of anti-monopoly law enforcement work has been improved.
According to Zhang Chenying, the department under the National Anti-Monopoly Administration is responsible for policy coordination, monopoly agreement and abuse of market dominance case investigation, operator concentration review, and division of labor in accordance with the rules of the anti-monopoly law, which will help improve the professionalism and efficiency of law enforcement. .
In addition, the organization has substantially increased its staffing, which has enriched the anti-monopoly supervision power.
According to Huang Yong, a member of the Expert Advisory Group of the State Council’s Anti-Monopoly Committee and Director of the Competition Law Center of the University of International Business and Economics, the official establishment of the National Anti-Monopoly Bureau is an important plan for implementing China’s high-level anti-monopoly supervision and strengthening competition. The determination of the policy foundation status.
Huang Yong stated that as China's economy continues to grow, its structure is continuously optimized, and comprehensively deepened reforms gradually enter the deep waters, monopoly cases will become increasingly complex, and anti-monopoly law enforcement agencies will also have in-depth games with technology giants, multinational companies, and state-owned enterprises. Put forward higher requirements on the resources and professionalism of anti-monopoly law enforcement.
In this regard, Huang Yong said that the new department under the State Antimonopoly Administration has significantly expanded its staffing, professionalism in law enforcement, and analysis and gaming of complex cases compared with the previous Antimonopoly Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation. The ability will also be further enhanced.
What is the significance of the establishment of the "National Anti-Monopoly Bureau"?
"The official establishment of the National Anti-Monopoly Bureau is a major reform and progress of China's anti-monopoly law enforcement system. It has laid a more solid foundation for China to build a high-standard market system and promote high-quality development." Huang Yong said, this makes China anti-monopoly The law enforcement system has reached a new level.
Huang Yong said that the current era of rapid development of the digital economy, China's digital economy is in a leading position in the world, and at the same time, antitrust cases in the field of digital economy are also recognized as the most complicated in the world.
"How can we promote the healthy and sustainable development of China's digital industry in accordance with the law through professional and fair law enforcement, accelerate the process of industrial digitalization, occupy the future industrial and technological highland, and bring more choices, lower prices, and better quality to the people? Services and a more convenient life require anti-monopoly law enforcement agencies to respond with authoritative and professional law enforcement.” Huang Yong said.
In Huang Yong's view, the establishment of the National Anti-Monopoly Bureau is also closely following the global anti-monopoly development trend.
He pointed out that the earlier anti-monopoly jurisdictions in the world, such as the United States and the European Union, have a history of implementing anti-monopoly laws for many years and have established independent, large and authoritative anti-monopoly law enforcement agencies.
Take the United States as an example. The US federal government has an anti-monopoly organization of nearly 1,000 people, which is sufficient to effectively deal with enterprises of all sizes.
"In contrast, China’s anti-monopoly law enforcement also carries special missions such as strengthening the fundamental position of competition policy and implementing a fair competition review system. Having a strong, authoritative, efficient, and professional anti-monopoly law enforcement agency will also enable China’s anti-monopoly law enforcement in the future. In the game process, occupy a more active and advantageous position." Huang Yong explained.
The establishment of the National Anti-Monopoly Bureau is also an important deployment to respond to people's livelihood concerns in a timely manner and to effectively solve the difficult and painful problems in economic operations.
Guo Liyan, director and researcher of the Comprehensive Situation Office of the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomics, emphasized that the "prosperity" and "orderly" of the market economy complement each other. With the so-called free competition without regulatory norms, any "prosperity" cannot be sustained.
Supervision is an important government function in a modern market economy country, and it is also a basic institutional condition for optimizing resource allocation and maintaining social harmony.
"Strengthening anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition will create a fairer competitive market environment for various market players, release more element resources and market space for the majority of small, medium and micro private enterprises, promote their higher-quality development, and optimize the supply structure. And quality, and enhance the internal vitality of China's economic development." Guo Liyan said.
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