China Monthly Antitrust Update - May 2022

Legislation

SAMR: the Revised Anti-monopoly Law to Introduced This Year

On April 26, 2022, Gan Lin, deputy director of the State Administration for Market Regulation ("SAMR") and director of the State Anti-Monopoly Bureau("SAB"), attended a press conference on the Report on New Progress in Intellectual Property Protection and Business Environment in China (2021) held by the Information Office of the State Council and reported about the order of the market in maintaining fair competition since establishment of the SAB. Director Gan Lin disclosed at the meeting that the revised Anti-monopoly Law is expected to be released this year. ¹

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