SAMR will follow up with inspections and any companies it finds still using anti-competitive practices “will all be severely punished in accordance with the law.”
Chinese journalist Zichen Wang, who writes an English-language blog that interprets Chinese policy, wrote that SAMR wants to stamp out the following activities:
“Er xuan yi,” literally, “choose one out of two,” meaning punishing merchants from selling on rival platforms;
Abuse dominant position in the market;
Buying out leading but small entrants to a burgeoning market;
Burning through cash to grab market share in community group buying;
Discriminating against certain users based on big data;