( July 6, 2026, 03:56 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: China’s fair-competition review system has reviewed a cumulative 1.88 million policy measures over the past decade and prompted the repeal or amendment of 123,000 measures that excluded or restricted competition, according to a statement published Friday by the State Administration for Market Regulation. The regulator said the system, established in 2016 and expanded to all levels of government by 2019, has strengthened its legal framework through amendments to the Antimonopoly Law, the Fair Competition Review Regulation and their implementing rules. Since the regulation took effect in 2024, market regulators have reviewed more than 90,600 proposed government policy measures and recommended revisions to more than 15,000 of them to remove barriers to fair competition and a unified national market.Statement follows (in Chinese)....
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