By MLex Staff ( March 12, 2026, 06:10 GMT | Insight) -- A senior Chinese political adviser and economist at a leading state think tank has called for clearer guardrails governing platform companies’ market conduct, placing greater transparency and explainability at the center of key platform rules as Beijing steps up efforts to address disorderly competition. Platforms should make key rules governing pricing, recommendation systems and search rankings more transparent and explainable, in order to safeguard small and medium-sized enterprises’ fair participation rights and pricing autonomy, said Huang Qunhui, a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and an economist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.A senior Chinese political adviser and economist at a leading state think tank has called for clearer guardrails governing platform companies’ market conduct, placing greater transparency and explainability at the center of key platform rules as Beijing steps up efforts to address disorderly competition....
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