China targets credit-rating practices favoring local businesses
By MLex Staff ( July 24, 2026, 07:04 GMT | Insight) -- China's top competition regulator has published the first cases under a nationwide campaign to promote the unified domestic market, focusing on local government credit-rating practices that favored local companies in construction-related tenders. The cases show how administrative monopoly enforcement is being used to tackle regional protectionism.China's top competition regulator has published the first cases under a nationwide campaign aimed at removing barriers to fair competition, focusing on credit-rating practices that favored local companies in construction-related tendering and bidding....
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