(Observation of the NPC and CPPCC) Monopoly has been "beaten by everyone". Representative members call for strong supervision
China News Service, Beijing, March 9 (Reporter Li Xiaoyu) When "algorithms" hide "calculations" and big data is used to "kill familiarity" and force "choices of two" to appear at every turn, how to make the digital economy develop healthily has become an urgent need solved problem.
In the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the draft of the 2035 long-term goal outline, China proposed to build a system of policies and regulations compatible with the development of the digital economy, and create an open, healthy and safe digital ecosystem.
This year's government work report also made it clear that the state supports the innovative development of platform enterprises and enhances their international competitiveness, while at the same time regulating development in accordance with the law.
Strengthen anti-monopoly and prevent the disorderly expansion of capital, and resolutely maintain a fair competitive market environment.
Many representatives believe that various monopolies and unfair competition in the digital economy have harmed the legitimate interests of related parties and urgently need to be regulated and supervised.
Zhu Lieyu, a representative of the National People’s Congress and director of Guangdong Guoding Law Firm, said that the most common set of business competition models used by Internet companies is the "price war", which essentially relies on low-price dumping to squeeze out competitors and occupy as much as possible in a short time. market share.
Under this competitive model, the winner often obtains a high degree of market monopoly, which not only infringes on the interests of small and medium-sized business operators, but also harms the interests of consumers.
In addition to relying on price wars to squeeze out competitors, forcing merchants to "choose one of two", excessive collection and use of personal information, and using big data to "kill old customers" are also common unfair competition behaviors of Internet companies.
For example, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce bluntly stated in a group proposal that several food delivery platforms currently dominate, and even rely on their monopoly status to require catering companies to "choose one of the two", and the commissions remain high, causing many catering companies to "lost money and earn yells." , It cannot effectively alleviate their own business difficulties. Consumers are also benefiting from the loss of benefits due to catering companies passing on costs by reducing weight and quality.
Under this circumstance, heavy-handed supervision has been loudly called in the public opinion field of the two sessions.
Yang Song, deputy to the National People's Congress and vice president of Liaoning University, said that an article should be added to the anti-monopoly law, stipulating that operators in the digital economy must not use technical means, platform rules, data and algorithms to implement monopolistic behavior.
In Zhu Lieyu's view, considering that individual consumers are weak and litigation costs and time costs are too high, the state procuratorial organs should file a lawsuit against unfair competition that uses monopoly status to infringe consumers' rights and interests, which is "more deterrent."
It is worth noting that the work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress announced recently has made it clear that the anti-monopoly law will be revised in the next year, and timely follow-up research on new technologies and applications such as digital economy, Internet finance, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, etc. Related legal systems.
A representative member said that considering that the digital economy has been fully integrated into all aspects of China's society and economy, reasonable and effective regulation of it requires the participation of all parties.
Ma Huateng, a representative of the National People's Congress, Chairman and CEO of Tencent's board of directors, said that all kinds of friction and chaos represent the running-in and adjustment between the new productivity and production relationship of digital technology.
In the future, we should attach great importance to these new contradictions and new problems, promote the formation of joint forces between the government, the market, society, and enterprises, and actively explore innovative supervision and governance methods.
Cao Amin, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Shanghai Academy of Sciences, also suggested that the government should fully solicit the opinions of platform enterprises, consumers and all sectors of society, accelerate the improvement of the platform economic supervision legal system that adapts to the current stage of China’s development and national conditions, and effectively prevent and control monopoly operations. .
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