China Monthly Antitrust & Data Protection Update - January 2021

ANTITRUST

LEGISLATION

Anti-Monopoly Law Amendments Included in the 2021 Key Legislative Plan of the National People's Congress

On 21 December 2020, Yue Zhongming, spokesperson of the Legal Work Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, introduced the key legislative plan of the National People's Congress in 2021 at a press conference, which includes the amendments of the Anti-Monopoly Law.¹

AUTHORITIES

The Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee Holds a Seminar on Antitrust and the Prevention of Disorderly Expansion of Capital

On 28 December 2020, the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee held a seminar to thoroughly implement the requirements of the recent Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Conference and the Central Economic Work Conference to strengthen antitrust and prevent the disorderly expansion of capital and to research and deploy