Recently, the Office of the Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission of the State Council conducted an investigation and assessment of the market competition situation in the food delivery platform service industry in accordance with the Anti-Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China.
Answering questions from reporters by an official from the Office of the State Council's Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission
Recently, the Office of the State Council's Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission conducted an investigation and assessment of market competition in the food delivery platform service industry. In response, an official from the Office of the State Council's Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission answered questions from reporters.
Q: Could you please explain the background and main considerations behind the State Council's Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission Office's announcement of conducting a market competition survey and assessment of the food delivery platform service industry?
A: The CPC Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the innovation and healthy development of the platform economy. As an important component of China's platform economy, the food delivery platform service industry has played a significant role in promoting consumption, expanding employment, and driving innovation. However, recently, the food delivery platform service industry has seen prominent issues such as competing on subsidies, prices, and controlling traffic, squeezing the real economy and intensifying the industry's "involutionary" competition, drawing strong reactions from all sectors of society. To promote the legal and compliant operation and fair and orderly competition of food delivery platforms, and to form a market order of high quality and fair pricing, the Office of the Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission of the State Council (hereinafter referred to as the Commission Office), in accordance with the provisions of the Anti-Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China, has decided to conduct an investigation and assessment of the market competition situation in the food delivery platform service industry.
This investigation and assessment is an important measure taken by the Committee Office to express its concerns about competition, assess monopoly risks, and regulate market order. It will utilize methods such as on-site verification, face-to-face interviews, and questionnaires to gain a thorough understanding of the competitive behavior of food delivery platforms, widely solicit opinions from platform operators, newly employed groups, and consumers, comprehensively investigate the market competition situation, organize analysis and demonstration, transmit regulatory pressure, and propose remedial measures. Food delivery platforms must actively cooperate with the market investigation and assessment, strictly implement their anti-monopoly compliance responsibilities, effectively prevent and resolve monopoly risks, participate fairly in market competition, and promote innovation and healthy development in the food delivery platform service industry.
