By MLex Staff ( July 8, 2026, 09:24 GMT | Comment) -- China's top legislature heard candid testimony recently on why the country still lacks a unified national market despite years of effort. Officials cited inconsistent enforcement, outdated laws, entrenched local interests and inadequate infrastructure for emerging economic resources as key barriers. In response, they outlined measures spanning enforcement standardization, fiscal oversight, infrastructure development and platform accountability.As global trade tensions push China to rely more heavily on domestic demand, senior policymakers laid out in a special inquiry in late June what still prevents China from functioning as a single, integrated marketplace and how they plan to remove those barriers....
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