Panel 2 Cases of Unfair Competition and Monopoly Involving Online Platforms

In 2020-21, China investigated two typical cases of compelling platform users to choose one platform over another, in e-business and online food delivery services, and imposed total fines of 21.67 billion yuan. In 2021, 1,998 cases of unfair competition online were investigated, resulting in fines of 119 million yuan. From 2020 to the first half of 2022, 56 cases of concentration of platform operators with prior notification were reviewed, and 159 cases of illegal concentration of platform operators that failed to file a prior notification were investigated in accordance with the law.